Diplomacy is the word for the weekend. President Barack Obama hosts the G8 Summit at Camp David on Friday and Saturday and then the NATO Summit in Chicago on Sunday and Monday. He kicks off the four-day stretch Friday morning with a meeting at the White House with new France President Francois Hollande. Top topics for the weekend: Reviving the global economy and winding down the war in Afghanistan. Mitt Romney will spend Friday campaigning in New Hampshire, a battleground state that Obama won in 2008, and CNN reports that his campaign will roll out its first general election ad on Friday. Romney is scheduled to spend Sunday in New York and Connecticut raising money. Ron Paul will be out there raising money this weekend, too, but not for himself. He'll be in St. Cloud, Minn., on Friday at a fundraiser for Senate candidate Kurt Bills, and he'll speak on Saturday at a fundraiser for the Minnesota Republican Party. And Herman Cain speaks on Saturday at...
WEST PALM BEACH – The Mitt Romney campaign released today its first ad of the General Election, a 30-second spot that focuses on what the candidate would do on the first day in the White House. The ad, which according to reports is set to...
The leak of a major ad campaign proposal that would go after President Obama’s past relationship with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright has had both Republican and Democrats – even the billionaire who had requested the pitch – trying to distance themselves. Yet dirty tricks, negative campaigning...
The Note’s Must-Reads are a round-up of today’s political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News’ Carrie Halperin and Amanda VanAllen MITT ROMNEY ABC News’ Matt Negrin: “Mitt Romney Defends...
President Barack Obama said Thursday that he and first lady Michelle Obama were "saddened" to hear of the death of "Disco Queen" Donna Summer. "Her voice was unforgettable, and the music industry has lost a legend far too soon. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Donna's family and her dedicated fans," the president said in a written statement. The big-voiced star had '70s hits with "I Feel Love" and "Last Dance" and scored a 1983 smash with "She Works Hard for the Money." In December 2009, she performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, honoring Obama. The president also mourned the passing of Dick Clark back in April. But he kept mum about the deaths of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Beastie Boy MCA (Adam Yauch), a fervent activist on behalf of people in Tibet. More popular Yahoo! News stories: • Gallup poll: Romney's 'favorable' rating jumps • The man...
President Barack Obama on Friday kicks off a frenetic four days of guns-and-butter diplomacy, including a pair of high-stakes international summits focused on reviving the sputtering global economy and winding down the unpopular war in Afghanistan. Both issues will shape Obama's legacy — not to mention his hopes for re-election in November. And the back-to-back gatherings of the Group of Eight rich countries at Camp David and the NATO summit in Chicago offer vital opportunities to get the United States and its closest allies in closer harmony. White House officials have worriedly watched Europe's debt crisis, concerned that a recession there could infect the already-weak American economy. And the president has made a successful handover of security responsibility from NATO-led forces to their Afghan counterparts by the end of 2014 one of his signature foreign policy goals. Obama's diplomatic dash opens Friday with a visit from France's new president, François...
“Ex-PATRIOT” – Schumer Targets Anti-Tax Facebook Set - Act to Target Eduardo Saverin – It’s not a Bill of Attainder, they say, because they’d target any soon-to-be Internet billionaire who renounces his (or her) citizenship to avoid paying taxes – http://abcn.ws/LgYc14 Eduardo Saverin Writes from...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had three opening words as she addressed the graduates of New York University on Wednesday who were holding their ceremony at Yankee Stadium. “This is a-w-e-some. “I grew up in a public housing project in the Bronx just a few...
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty slightly changed his tune on his vice presidential prospects Thursday when he didn’t rule out the possibility that he might get picked as Mitt Romney’s running mate. Just days before, he had told reporters to take him off the list....
Ads that tout New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s education record and bipartisanship are set to run in his home state markets as part of a $1.6 million television ad campaign by an outside group, The Committee for Our Children’s Future. The group’s fourth ad will...
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