Posted: 2:49 PM They are scheduled to attend a reception at a private residence with approximately 50 people who each paid $40,000, according to a campaign official.

Posted: 2:48 PM President Barack Obama's re-election team is taking their attack on Republican challenger Mitt Romney's Massachusetts record into the ad wars.

Posted: 2:47 PM Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia on Sunday classified Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's views on bipartisanship as "wacky."

Posted: 2:45 PM Mitt Romney has named former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to lead his presidential transition team should he win November's general election, the Republican presidential candidate's campaign confirmed Monday.

Posted: 2:44 PM The Barack Obama campaign was armed with actress Sarah Jessica Parker in its first national ad of the 2012 general election campaign.

Posted: 2:43 PM Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican hero for austerity measures that stripped collective bargaining rights from most public unions, spent a final day campaigning before Tuesday's recall election that brought lots of outside interest and money to the state.

Posted: 2:42 PM Former President Bill Clinton is lending some fund-raising help to President Barack Obama on Monday, in the form of three events in New York.

Posted: 2:41 PM Florida's two largest counties have stopped removing names from their voter rolls after the U.S. Department of Justice called into question the legality of the action, representatives from local election offices said Monday.

Posted: 12:52 PM According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday, Romney's favorable rating among Americans has jumped from 34% in February, during the heat of the divisive GOP presidential primaries, to 48% now.

Posted: 12:46 PM The Obama campaign announced Monday that they're going up with a new television commercial titled "Heard it Before" with what they call "a significant buy" in nine battleground or swing states.

Posted: 12:41 PM On Monday, the Republican National Committee capitalized on the video as evidence the president's priorities are off.

Posted: 12:34 PM Appointing a transition team before the general election is a common practice among presidential candidates, meant to ensure no president-elect is caught off guard with the requirements of becoming commander-in-chief.

Posted: 12:30 PM The former Republican presidential candidate will fill the spot left vacant by retiring radio host Neal Boortz, who announced his decision Monday on his program.

Posted: 12:25 PM "Young Guns" stress need to work with Democrats to get things done in Washington.

Posted: 12:21 PM According to the CNN map unveiled Monday, the president leads Romney in 19 states and the District of Columbia, which if he carried those in the general election would give him 247 electoral votes.

Posted: 11:25 AM The Democratic congresswoman and former House speaker similarly stoked the flames in April, describing the prospect as “so exciting.”

Posted: 10:48 AM Mitt Romney has named former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to lead his presidential transition team should he win November's general election, the Republican presidential candidate's campaign confirmed Monday.

Posted: 6:46 PM George Zimmerman' has returned to a Florida jail, after a judge revoked bond for the man accused in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Posted: 6:44 PM An aviation official says that all passengers on board the plane that crashed in Nigeria's largest city have been killed.

Posted: 1:15 PM George Zimmerman' has returned to a Florida jail, after a judge revoked bond for the man accused in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Posted: 12:02 PM Leon Panetta visited a former U.S. Navy base in Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam, on Sunday, marking the first trip there by an American defense secretary since the war ended.

Posted: 11:49 AM A new report from The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) entitled "Africa: The New Frontier for Intercountry Adoption," says the trend indicates that receiving countries are turning "en masse" to Africa to meet demand for adoptive children as other options close. It's a trend, they say, that needs to stop.

Posted: 11:30 AM New evidence released Friday revealed clues that may solve the mystery of what happened to aviator Amelia Earhart, Discovery News reports.

Posted: 11:28 AM A record wildfire raged on in southwestern New Mexico on Sunday, belching out a wall of smoke as it devoured thousands of acres and advanced across the rugged wilderness.

Posted: 11:22 AM Five bodies were found Saturday in a burned-out vehicle in the southern Arizona desert, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said.