Presidential Campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is launching a sharp critique of Mitt Romney's business record, airing a hard-hitting TV ad that recounts the demise of a Kansas City, Mo., steel mill that was restructured by Romney's private equity firm and led to hundreds of job losses...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney is trying to return the focus of his campaign to the sluggish economic recovery. The presumptive GOP nominee for president has been restating his opposition to gay marriage and shrugging off a newspaper report that he bullied a gay classmate in prep school...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has met with former rival Rick Santorum. Friday's meeting in Pittsburgh came nearly a month after the former Pennsylvania senator left the race, clearing the way for Romney to become the nominee...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan: "Forward." Obama's re-election team unveiled its new motto in a video released Monday morning. The seven-minute video begins by recalling the grim state of the nation's economy when Obama took office, then ticks through what the campaign says are the president's accomplishments, both on the economy and other issues... Re

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican presidential nomination all but in hand, Mitt Romney is refocusing his efforts on challenging President Barack Obama, raising cash for the battle ahead and reconciling with onetime primary rival Rick Santorum...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is acknowledging the obvious: The presidential contest is now a two-man race. In a fundraising appeal to supporters, Obama says "we've got an opponent." While the email doesn't mention Republican Mitt Romney by name, Obama writes that he and his challenger "don't see a lot of things eye to eye...

WASHINGTON (AP) — He's been running for president for quite a while -- but Mitt Romney says, "The campaign started yesterday -- the general election campaign." His comments to Fox News came a day after his chief Republican rival, Rick Santorum, announced he was ending his own campaign for the nomination...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is signaling he'll base part of his re-election campaign on an argument that Republicans are pushing discredited economic ideas. In an interview with ABC News, Obama says the best strategy for economic revival is avoiding the Bush administration and financial community policies that led to the near-collapse of the economy in the fall of 2008...