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Romney: Obama doesn't get free enterprise system

Mitt Romney is trying to counter President Barack Obama's argument that he would bring back Republican Party economic policies that have proved unworkable. Romney tells Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" that Obama is attacking capitalism while trying to drive America toward a European-style, government-dominated society. Romney says: "It's kind ...

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. gestures during a speech at the Latino Coalition annual economic summit, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Washington, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Search for Romney running mate in audition phase

Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions. As his campaign evaluates potential running mates, Republicans with a possible shot at the No. 2 spot on the presidential ticket are starting to engage in unofficial public tryouts for the traditional vice presidential role of attack dog. Democratic ...

President Barack Obama greets supporters at a campaign fundraiser, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 in Denver. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to campaign in Iowa, promote energy plan

As President Barack Obama readies for a return to the Iowa State Fairgrounds, his campaign is reminding voters that it was in that same spot where Republican rival Mitt Romney declared last year that "corporations are people." Democrats slammed Romney's assertion as a gaffe that showed the former Massachusetts governor ...

Romney campaign outlines 'day 1' of his presidency

Mitt Romney's campaign has released a new ad promoting "Day One" of a potential Romney presidency, describing which of President Barack Obama's policies the Republican will reverse first if he wins the White House. The ad promises that in his first day in the Oval Office, Romney will announce deficit ...

Gloves stay on in quiet NM Senate primary

Four years ago, New Mexico's Heather Wilson gave up her House seat to make a run for a rare opening in the Senate. She lost in a bare-knuckled Republican primary. This year Wilson has the luxury of sitting back as the Democratic successor to her House seat takes a similar ...

FILE - In this May 21, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference in Chicago. President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts. They're doing it in the wake of robust hauls by rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from Republicans highly motivated to topple the Democrat. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Obama, Dems redoubling money efforts to keep edge

His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat. Obama still has a significant ...

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney walks past reporters on the campaign charter flight between New York and Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Obama team wrongly says Romney moves goal posts

President Barack Obama's campaign says Republican rival Mitt Romney is trying to "move the goal posts" and reverse his position on unemployment. Actually, that's a fumble of the facts. In an interview with Time magazine, Romney predicts the nation's unemployment rate will sink to 6 percent from the current rate ...

Obama birth certificate OK by Arizona official

Arizona's secretary of state said Wednesday that Hawaii's official verification of President Barack Obama's birth records meets necessary requirements, meaning the president's name will appear on Arizona's ballot in the fall. The inquiry launched recently by Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett gave official weight to a long-simmering political controversy ...

FILE - In this May 21, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Joplin, Mo. Obama's re-election campaign is touting new polls that show growing support for gay marriage following the president's public embrace of same-sex unions. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election. In a conference call announcing efforts to get gay and lesbian voters engaged in the Obama campaign, officials said poll ...

FILE - In this May 8, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Romney promotes education agenda, defends Bain

Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, welcoming scrutiny of the private equity firm he co-founded and declaring he's a far more qualified steward of the economy than President Barack Obama. At the same time, Romney said that if ...

Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers

A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King. R-N.Y., first raised questions about the bin Laden movie last summer, but ...

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney gestures while speaking at the Latino Coalition annual economic summit, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

THE RACE: Obama walking fine line in Bain critique

President Barack Obama has to tread carefully in targeting Republican rival Mitt Romney's business resume. He risks reinforcing criticism that he's anti-business. He doesn't want to look like he's assailing free enterprise. Obama's campaign has put out a biting TV ad featuring laid-off workers from a now-bankrupt steel company that ...

President Barack Obama leaves Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 22, 2012, as he returns from the NATO summit in Chicago and Jopin, Mo. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama to graduates: 'A new feeling about America'

President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a "new feeling about America" and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes into a commencement speech to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy. "We can say with confidence and pride: The United States is stronger, safer and more ...

FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in St. Petersburg, Fla. Romney has swept all the delegates in the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries, putting him within one win of claiming the Republican nomination for president. With all of his primary opponents out of the race, the former Massachusetts governor should get that win next week when voters go to the polls in Texas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Primary sweep has Romney 1 win from GOP nomination

Mitt Romney swept all the delegates in GOP primaries in Kentucky and Arkansas and picked up more endorsements from party leaders, putting him one win away from claiming the Republican nomination for president. With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts governor should get that win next Tuesday when voters ...

FILE - In this May 10, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Omaha, Neb. Romney is aggressively defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and insists it makes him qualified to be president. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Romney defends record at Bain Capital firm

Mitt Romney is defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and says it's part of why he's qualified to be president. Romney told Time magazine on Wednesday that "someone who spent their career in the economy" is better qualified to fix the economy than someone who spent their ...

President Barack Obama smiles while speaking at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, Calif., Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

In Iowa, Obama to tout election-year energy plan

President Barack Obama is returning to Iowa, seeking support for an election-year agenda to spur renewable energy along with a more immediate prize: the state's up-for-grab voters. Obama is pressing Congress to support clean energy tax incentives, part of his congressional "to-do list" that he contends could bolster the economy. ...

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses the Latino Coalition's 2012 Small Business Summit, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy

Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring. In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday, the Republican presidential candidate said he wants Congress to deal with major issues to keep the U.S. ...

Obama airing ads on veterans, seniors

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is airing two new ads, one focusing on his work with veterans returning home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and another aimed at seniors dependent on Medicare. In the veterans spot, Obama credits veterans for allowing the U.S. to "go after al-Qaida and kill ...

FILE - In this May 3, 2012, file photo, North Dakota Democratic Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp speaks in Minot, N.D. North Dakota’s prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy four years ago is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

Competitive Senate race shaping up in North Dakota

North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded. Heidi Heitkamp, a former state attorney general with ties to the energy industry and a ...

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2010, file photo, Harold Hamm, chief executive officer of Continental Resources Inc. of Enid, Okla., speaks during an Associated Press interview in Bismarck, N.D. Hamm didn’t wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney’s top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC, according to campaign reports. Hamm’s company, Continental Resources Inc., oversees oilfield stakes in North Dakota and Montana, and Hamm has been disdainful of President Barack Obama’s energy policies. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

Romney oil adviser also a big super PAC donor

Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super ...