By ANDREW TAYLOR WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House pushed ahead Thursday with a bill that would raise taxes on people earning over $1 million a year as hopes faded for a pre-Christmas deal between President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said [...]
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school, killing 26 people, including 20 children, by blasting his way through the building as young students cowered helplessly in classrooms while their teachers and classmates were shot. The attack, coming less than two weeks before Christmas, was the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting, [...]
By JIM ABRAMS WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner on Friday said it was time to address immigration policy and urged President Barack Obama to take the lead in coming up with a plan that would look at both improved enforcement of immigration law and the future of the estimated 11 million people living [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama won re-election Tuesday night despite a fierce challenge from Republican Mitt Romney, prevailing in the face of a weak economy and high unemployment that encumbered his first term and crimped the middle class dreams of millions. “This happened because of you. Thank you” Obama tweeted to supporters as he [...]
BOSTON (AP) — His reach for the presidency thwarted, Mitt Romney stayed out of sight late Tuesday as news organizations including The Associated Press announced that President Barack Obama had won a second term. Dejected Romney supporters milled around a hotel ballroom where the Republican hopeful had planned to declare victory and groaned as key [...]
By DAVID ESPO WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama won the reliably Democratic Northeast, and Republican Mitt Romney secured his conservative base Tuesday night in a duel for the White House shadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment. The critical battlegrounds with the key to victory were unsettled, Virginia, Ohio and Florida among them, [...]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Thousands of people have lined up to see President Barack Obama deliver his final election pitch in the battleground state of Ohio. Obama was scheduled to appear Monday afternoon at Nationwide Arena near downtown Columbus along with rocker Bruce Springsteen and rapper Jay Z. Obama supporter Jennifer Walker says she took [...]
By DAN SEWELL DAYTON (AP) — President Barack Obama headed back to Ohio on Tuesday facing a tight race that has some supporters in the battleground state feeling anxious. Obama was to make a rare joint appearance with Vice President Joe Biden at a rally in the afternoon in a Dayton park. The Democrat carried [...]
