GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. -- Like so many others who visit the Grand Canyon each year, Jennifer and John Stambaugh of Illinois toted bottled water as they took in the views recently.These bottles came from the tour company that bused them here from Las Vegas, but many visitors buy ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— Mitt Romney is fighting to avoid an embarrassing home-state loss in a high-stakes Michigan primary that will not decide the Republican presidential contest but could scar the former Massachusetts governor just a week before Super Tuesday.Rival Rick Santorum is calling ...
WASHINGTON -- The world according to Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney: Europeans are socialists. The Chinese are currency manipulators. Russia can't be trusted to abide by nuclear agreements. The Palestinians are out to destroy Israel. And the U.S. is too generous with ...
ATLANTA -- Day after day, Mitt Romney sketches a bleak portrait of America under President Barack Obama and vows to dismantle his programs. Romney would undo Obama's health care overhaul, scrap Obama's plan to scale back the military and lift Obama's restraints on banks and Wall Street ...
BOISE, Idaho-- Saying the measure had nothing to do with Occupy Boise, the Senate voted 26-9 Tuesday to approve a bill that prohibits protesters from camping on the Capitol Mall."In my view, the mall is like our front yard for the state of Idaho -- and you don't let people stay forever in your ...
EMINENCE, Mo. -- From his pickup on a rise above the Current River, Bill Smith scanned the wild horses grazing below to see if all were members in good standing.That's not always the case these days with Missouri's only wild horse herd, which descends from animals set free in the Great ...
PORTLAND, Maine-- Mitt Romney narrowly won Maine's Republican caucuses, state party officials announced Saturday, providing his campaign with a much-needed boost after three straight losses earlier this week. But the former Massachusetts governor won just a plurality of the Maine vote, ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Flanked by four young grandchildren, a buoyant-looking Mitt Romney strode across the tarmac here early Saturday afternoon, creating a perfectly posed American family tableau on the day that Nevadans voted for their choices to be the Republican presidential nominee.He ...
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Dialing the right wrong number may have saved the life of a Cuyahoga Falls woman.Loretta Smith, 70, said a complete stranger many states away came to her rescue Saturday when she fell ill.Around 4 p.m., Smith said, her right arm went dead. Soon the whole right side of ...
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Defense has waged war on two fronts in the Middle East, kept complicated fighter, bomber and transport aircraft flying all over the world and schooled troops in high-level intelligence gathering, but it hasn't won the battle of the balance sheet after more than ...
