Photograph by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
White wood crosses erected for victims who were killed during last weekend's mass shooting at Century 16 movie theater, July 22, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado.
“We join President Obama” — remarkable words, lately, from House Speaker John Boehner. They come at a time at which both the president of the United States and his most prominent adversary on Capitol Hill agree on a few things....
Read more »
Photograph by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
Former President George H. W. Bush, right, is helped by his son former President George W. Bush, left, at the Kennedy Center.
The Republican National Convention will be held without any of the party’s former presidents, not Bush 41, not Bush 43. Former President George W. Bush made it known through a spokesman today that he will skip the party’s convention starting...
Read more »
Photograph by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images
Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Restore Our Future, a super-PAC supporting Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign for president, amassed $20.7 million in June largely through big checks from familiar Republican donors. More than 60 percent of the money came from just three wealthy families, today’s Federal...
Read more »
Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Newt Gingrich gives autographs while visiting his Polk County campaign headquarters on primary day on Jan. 31, 2012 in Lakeland, Florida.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has reported mounting debts since bowing out of the campaign for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. His campaign owed $4.9 million at the end of June, according to a report filed today at the Federal...
Read more »
Photograph by Paul Videla/Bradenton Herald/MCT via Getty Images
The Republican National Convention will be held at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Florida.
There is money, and there is money. The money that presidential candidates collect for their campaigns, they control. The money they steer to their parties is another matter. And President Barack Obama started this month with a lot more in...
Read more »
Photograph by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
President Barack Obama speaks on the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, at what was scheduled originally as a campaign event at Harborside Event Center July 20, 2012 in Fort Myers, Florida.
Today was going to be a big day on the campaign trail. A loud day. President Barack Obama was embarking on his second day of a cross-state tour of Florida, the biggest of all swing states in an election contest...
Read more »
Photograph by Sisse Brimberg/Cotton Coulson/Keenpress
A House Natural Resources subcommittee holds a hearing today on the U.S. helium stockpile and how shortages of the inert gas can impact national defense, healthcare and the economy. While helium is best known for inflating balloons at children’s parties...
Read more »
Photograph by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via AP Images
Eyewitness Jacob Stevens with his mother after being interview by police outside Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo.
Updated at 10:45, 11 and 11:10 am EDT President Barack Obama’s and Republican Mitt Romney’s campaigns have asked television stations in Colorado to pull “contrast advertising” temporarily, in the wake of the shootings in Aurora. The Obama campaign also acknowledged...
Read more »
Photograph by Lynne Sladky/AP Photo
Hands raised when the audience was asked how many are on Medicare during the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans fifth annual town hall meeting on health care reform in Delray Beach.
That’s the number of Medicare beneficiaries in Florida as of 2011, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s statehealthfacts.org website. There are more Medicare beneficiaries in Florida than in any other state except California, the nation’s most populous state. About 18...
Read more »
Photograph by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images
Members of MoveOn.org protest at Mitt Romney's campaign office in Arlington, Virginia, calling for the Republican Presidential hopeful to release more of his tax returns.
Republican Mitt Romney won’t find much public support for his refusal to release more than the two years of tax returns that he already has disclosed and promised. Most Americans surveyed — 54 percent — say Romney should release additional tax...
Read more »
