Mitt Romney s presidential campaign is clamping down on unrehearsed comments by the presumed Republican nominee tightening control of his message to limit gaffes as he courts a broader swath of the electorate that will decide the November election…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Democrats are shifting tactics again as they work to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker next month. They've started playing up questions about whether Milwaukee prosecutors are secretly…

It s clear that Senate budget-writers got the no new taxes memo which will come as a relief to taxpayers. Like the House budget proposal released last month (but unlike Gov. Deval Patrick s budget plan) the Senate budget released yesterday…

EDEN PRAIRIE Minn. The Minnesota Vikings will have a longer training camp this year. The team announced Wednesday that players will report to Minnesota State University in Mankato on July 26 and break camp three weeks later on Aug. 16. This will…

Gov. Jerry Brown is testy. He's defensive. He's very frustrated. He's only human after all not a demigod not the all-wise powerful supergov he portrayed himself to be when running for the office. It's hard to know who believed that portrayal the…

Deb Fischer a little-known and relatively unfunded candidate for US Senate pulled off an upset in the Nebraska GOP primary Tuesday and will face Democrat Bob Kerrey in November. She beat Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning the favorite to win…

Are some Ron Paul supporters going rogue and confronting the Republican Party in a manner of which Mr. Paul himself would not approve? The Paul crowd accused Mr. Priebus of violating an RNC rule against aiding one party presidential hopeful while another…

You know things have completely spun off the Capitol Hill rails when the usually chipper House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) makes a statement like this: "I haven't heard Kumbaya in so long I wouldn't even recognize it around here." That's Pelosi…

After months of silence George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race - with four short words. "I'm for Mitt Romney " the former president said Tuesday in Washington as the doors of his elevator shut perhaps his only public statement on the…

Elizabeth Warren was touting her claim of Cherokee heritage as early as 1984 according to a cookbook titled Pow Wow Chow edited by her cousin that includes Warren s recipes for a savory crab omelet and spicy barbecued beans. The cookbook edited…