February 2012 Headlines
Romney's win, combined with victory in the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Committee, helped slow an embarrassing skid after a string of losses.
Mitt Romney has won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll of conservative activists.
Conservatives from across the country are in Washington to talk about ideas and strategy and to hear from those still in the running to become the GOP nominee.
A Gallup poll shows 20 percent of Republicans now support him as their party's nominee for president after his three-state sweep of GOP contests on Tuesday.
GOP candidate Rick Santorum accused President Obama of betraying Israel by disclosing what may be a plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
Republican presidential candidate and former Sen. Rick Santorum took a day off from talking politics Wednesday, and instead talked about his faith.
Ten states will no longer be held to certain requirements of the No Child Left Behind education law put in place under the George W. Bush administration.
House Speaker John Boehner, who is Catholic, said the rule is an attack on religious freedom and "cannot stand and will not stand."
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee released a report showing more than a quarter of released Guantanamo detainees resumed terrorist activity.
It's being called a "Santorum Sweep." Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum scored three huge wins in the race for the Republican nomination.
Inside churches across America, the health department's recent interpretation of President Obama's health care law, passed by Congress in 2010, is still reverberating.
Rather than attacking one another, the GOP candidates are focusing on the president and what they see as his violation of Americans' freedom on conscience.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is being considered the clear front-runner for Tuesday's Republican caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota.
A second term for President Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals court.
Eric Holder maintains he knew nothing about Operation Fast and Furious, a gun-smuggling investigation by the Justice Department that went wrong.
If Rep. Paul Broun gets his way, no lawmaker on Capitol Hill would get paid without first passing a budget.
President Obama suggested that his politics of 'shared responsibility' and higher taxes for the rich are shaped by the teachings of Jesus.
The news comes after two Newt Gingrich campaign advisers claimed it was the former House speaker that "the Donald" would be throwing his support behind.
President Barack Obama traveled to Falls Church, Va., Wednesday to release the details of his new plan to help struggling homeowners.
Despite a war of words between GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, Romney hinted at reconciliation. Apparently Gingrich didn't get the memo.