Some African-Americans have watched enviously as President Barack Obama courted other voting blocs critical to his re-election hopes.

The Romney campaign calls the idea "ridiculous," saying the documents were filed with his name because he left abruptly to run the Olympics in February 1999.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly declined to answer questions about who his campaign is vetting to join the ticket.

The bipartisan panel that handled the case, the State Ballot Law Commission, ruled in Romney’s favor.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee traveled to Wyoming Thursday to attend the fundraisers held at the Teton Pines Country Club where Cheney and his wife Lynne own a home.

The intended point of the 30-second spot, titled "What happened?", is to fault Obama for making "dishonest" attacks in the 2012 presidential race, despite condemning such a strategy in his speech four years ago.

The campaign said the president will focus on the "two fundamentally different visions" being debated in the 2012 presidential race, particularly when it comes to finding solutions for the lagging economy.

The last Republican vice presidential nominee thinks Rice would be a great choice.

NBC launched a free Olympics app on Thursday that will let users stream every event in the Games live from their mobile devices -- as long as they're pay-TV subscribers.

Demand for visas to visit the United States is growing, but getting one, for many foreigners, has sometimes meant frustratingly long waits for interviews and processing. The State Department struggled to keep up, but this year it took steps to improve.

Drastic cuts to NASA's budget are threatening pay and benefits for Kennedy Space Center's fire and rescue personnel, workers said Thursday, sparking a union protest outside the space center.

The United States on Thursday placed additional sanctions on what it called Iran's nuclear proliferation network.

Missing Ohio mother Lynn Jackenheimer was reportedly hesitant about taking the North Carolina trip with on-and-off boyfriend Nate Summerfield, who already held a prior domestic violence conviction involving her.

The Obama administration on Thursday hit Iran with more sanctions designed to hinder the country's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The owner of Mississippi's only abortion clinic says she expects legislators to keep trying to put new restrictions on the facility and the procedure, regardless of how a federal judge rules in a fight over a new state law.

A 27-year-old police officer in Louisiana has resigned after authorities say he stole an iPhone from the scene of a drunken-driving crash.

Tom Cruise's lawyer is threatening to sue the National Enquirer over its recent cover story, which claims the actor is a "monster" who subjected Katie Holmes to "abuse" and "humiliation."

Aaron Schaffhausen, 34, was arraigned Thursday afternoon on charges he killed his three daughters.

A rescue mission last week in Northern California didn't go exactly as planned. A surgeon who broke his ankle while hiking in the middle of nowhere ended up saving the life of the paramedic who was sent to help him.

International Bird Rescue officials say large numbers of California Brown Pelican fledglings are starving to death, with struggling birds crowding rescue centers up and down the coast.

In a letter sent to its publisher, American Media, Inc., Tom Cruise's attorney Bert Fields claimed a National Enquirer report contained "false and vicious lies."

The Rolling Stones played their first gig 50 years ago today at a music club - now a bank - on Oxford Street in central London.

Actress Kristin Chenoweth has left the hospital after being injured on the New York set of CBS' drama "The Good Wife."

The group D33D claims to have breached Yahoo's security by using a "union-based SQL injection technique."

Aaron Schaffhausen, a North Dakota man, was charged Thursday with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of his three young daughters, ages 5 to 11, in northwestern Wisconsin.