Video: Romney releases ad: "What I’d do on day one"
CBS News political director John Dickerson was joined Friday by the Huffington Post’s Jon Ward, USA Today’s Jackie Kucinich and the Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty for a discussion on a new ad released by the Romney campaign on what he’d do on his first day as president.
Arizona official: It’s ‘possible’ Obama won’t make ballot
WASHINGTON — In a revival of the controversy surrounding President Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate, a state official in Arizona says it’s “possible” that he’ll hold Obama’s name off the Arizona ballot if Hawaii officials don’t send him confirmation that the president was born there.
Biden on same-sex marriage: ‘We didn’t make it an issue’ [Video]
Vice President Joe Biden said he and President Obama are “in the same place” on same-sex marriage, just more than a week after his comments on the issue forced the president to hasten his public declaration of support.
Analysis: Three states stand out in 2012 presidential election
WASHINGTON — The presidential candidates have just placed their opening bets, and three states stand out as keys to the 2012 election: Ohio, Virginia and, perhaps surprisingly, Iowa.
Jurors get John Edwards case
The jury will begin deciding the fate of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards Friday, a day after closing arguments concluded in the corruption trial.
Hollande visits Obama as France weighs new course
President Hollande’s campaign promises are counter to U.S. policy on economy, Afghan war; Will face questions at G-8 Summit, NATO conference
Closing arguments in John Edwards trial
The jury is expected to begin deliberating Friday morning over whether the former candidate knowingly broke campaign finance laws as he sought to hide his extramarital affair.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Both sides in the John Edwards trial gave detailed closing arguments Thursday to a federal jury that will decide whether the former presidential candidate knowingly violated campaign finance laws in a scheme to hide an extramarital affair.
Do voters want moderates out of D.C.?
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame-duck session after the November elections.
Now it’s the jury’s turn in Edwards trial
Closing arguments concluded Thursday afternoon in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.
Romney: Rev. Wright ads ‘the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign’
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mitt Romney said Thursday that he did not approve of a proposal for a racially-tinged ad campaign from an outside group that considered invoking controversial comments of President Obama’s former pastor, telling reporters he wanted to “make it very clear I repudiate that effort.”
