2012 presidential Campaign

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney disavowed Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's comment that when a woman becomes pregnant during a rape "that's something God intended," but stood by his endorsement of the Indiana Republican.

Bruce Springsteen is hitting the campaign trail on President Barack Obama's behalf. The musician will join former President Bill Clinton at a rally in Parma, Ohio, on Tuesday, the day of the second presidential debate. Obama will not attend the rally.

President Barack Obama told world leaders Tuesday that attacks on U.S. citizens in Libya "were attacks on America," and he called on them to join in confronting the root causes of the rage across the Muslim world.

The reason Chris Christie was not Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential nominee was he did not believe Mitt Romney could win in November and did not want to step down as Governor of New Jersey in order to run according to a report in the New York Post and denied by the Romney campaign and Christie.

Republican officials abruptly announced plans Saturday night to scrap the first day of their national convention, bowing to the threat of Tropical Storm Isaac as it bore down menacingly on Florida.

The Democratic Party is giving two prominent business leaders speaking roles at the party convention: CarMax co-founder Austin Ligon and Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal along with Newark Mayor Cory Booker.

The presidential campaign is pressing into the heat of summer just as the government issues new jobless numbers that will define the state of the economy and the political contest four months from Election Day.

Mitt Romney says Florida. Sen. Marco Rubio is being "thoroughly vetted" for vice president.