2012

On Thursday night, the presidential candidates spoke at the quadrennial election-year ritual that is the Alfred E. Smith Dinner. Smith was a former governor of New York and the foundation that bears his name hosts the black-tie dinner, at which it is traditional for even the most stolid and humorless elected officials to loosen up and tell a few jokes at their own and their opponents' expense.

Tea party-backed Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) suggested on Thursday that exceptions to abortion bans were not necessary to protect the mother's health because science had advanced to the point that pregnant women can't die.

A charity that operates a soup kitchen in northeastern Ohio has faced an exodus of donors ever since vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan staged a photo-op on the premises.

An 80-year-old Connecticut woman who lived through the Second World War was arrested last week for taking down posters that likened President Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler.

The wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said that her husband and sons had not joined the U.S. military but had found "different ways of serving" by going on religious missions in France, England, Australia and Chile as part of their obligation to the Mormon church.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Thursday warned co-host Mika Brzezinski that if she continued to discuss her concerns over the way Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney diminished pay equality with his story about "binders full of women" then the GOP hopeful would "win in a landslide."

Wisconsin state Rep. Roger Rivard, who became notorious for his assertion that "some girls rape so easy" has snagged the endorsement of the anti-LGBT, anti-choice and anti-same sex marriage organization Wisconsin Family Action (WFA).  According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, WFA director Julaine Appling endorsed Rivard "because of his stance on issues."

In a June 6 conference call that went unreported before Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney urged an audience of small business owners to do something that's long been considered illegal in the U.S. until just recently: He asked the bosses to tell their workers how they should vote in November.

Conservative economist Ben Stein on Thursday seemed to know that he had wandered off message when he joked that the hosts of Fox & Friends might murder him for saying that it was not possible to balance the budget without raising taxes.

Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson says that Candy Crowley's real-time fact check of Mitt Romney during Tuesday night presidential debate was so devastating that it can be compared to John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney stoked the embers of their smoldering debate as they campaigned through fiercely contested territory less than three weeks before the election.

MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — US President Barack Obama made rival Mitt Romney pay Wednesday for his awkward "binders full of women" comment that took on a life of its own after their feisty second debate.