The White House is focusing on re-election themes such as jobs and public works projects in President Barack Obama's new budget blueprint that's coming out next week.

The state's caucuses will come down to a competition between one candidate looking for his first win and another looking to end a losing streak.

Both President Barack Obama and the GOP are talking money and taxes in their weekly radio and Internet messages.

The candidates seeking votes competed at the Conservative Political Action Conference to present themselves as most conservative and most opposed to Obama's health care law.

Mitt Romney, the one-time GOP front-runner, is looking to avoid a fourth consecutive defeat when voters hit the polls.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicts that five large states will put Democrats in striking distance of gaining control of the House after the November elections.

The White House says it won't recoil from raising grave human rights concerns during a get-acquainted visit next week by China's likely future leader.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he thinks it would be wrong to allow women to serve in combat.

The U.S. Conference of Bishops is withholding its endorsement of the change to President Obama's birth control rule until it sees the details.

A lawyer for John Edwards is defending his campaign's 2011 spending, saying the expenses were related to last year's criminal probe of the former presidential candidate and a federal audit.