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An Obama campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney's record as a corporate CEO is running in battleground states Virginia, Ohio, and Iowa.

Anatomy of a campaign ad: 'Swiss bank account'

Team Obama aggressively brands Mitt Romney as a heartless outsourcer who stashes his wealth in an opaque overseas account

 
ObamaCare protesters outside the Supreme Court: Thanks, in part, to a recent series of highly politicized hearings, the Supreme Court is losing support among Americans.

The Supreme Court's historically low approval ratings: 4 theories

The high court's favorability rating is at its lowest point in 25 years — a stark reversal from the recent past, when the court enjoyed near-universal popularity

 
President Barack Obama addresses troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on May 2: The Romney campaign has gone on the offensive since the president began touting his authorization of bin Laden's killing as a political win.

Are Republicans falling into Obama's 'bin Laden trap'?

Republicans are slamming Obama for playing politics with Osama bin Laden's killing... and the president might have the GOP right where he wants it

 
Presidential campaign slogans: A visual history

Presidential campaign slogans: A visual history

"Change" worked for President Obama in 2008. Now he's trying "Forward." What catchphrases have other candidates used to win the White House?

 
What would Bluto do? Starting this fall, Princeton freshmen who try to pledge one of the school's 12 frats will likely be suspended.

Princeton's crackdown on frats: Too harsh?

Starting next fall, if the Ivy Leage school's freshmen pledge, rush, or interact with Greek organizations, they'll face the threat of immediate suspension

 
President Obama poses with his grandparents around the time he was a student at Columbia University in the early 1980s.

A young Obama in love: 7 takeaways from a juicy biography

Vanity Fair publishes excerpts from a new book on the president, delving into an intense love affair that Obama had when he was a a young man in New York

 
Religious people may be more apt to follow doctrinal beliefs than to be driven by compassion to help others in need.

Are highly religious people less compassionate?

A new study suggests non-believers are more likely than the faithful to be generous when they see a stranger in need

 
Elizabeth Warren says her great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee, presumably making the Massachusetts Democrat 1/32 Native American.

Did Elizabeth Warren exaggerate her Cherokee roots?

Incumbent Sen. Scott Brown's supporters say his Democratic challenger falsely claimed to be a minority to boost her career

 
The photo that inspired the "Texts from Hillary" meme: Once a divisive runner-up, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is earning coolness points from besotted liberals.

Hillary Clinton's 'coolness offensive': 4 highlights

Progressives and young Dems go gaga over the Secretary of State as she cheekily declines actor Jason Segel's offer to co-star in his next film, boozes in Cartagena, and more

 
Edward Morrissey

Edward Morrissey: Obama's laughable inability to look forward

The president's re-election campaign settles on "Forward" as its 2012 slogan. And yet, all Obama does is harp on the past

 
Mitt Romney speaks in Scottsdale, Ariz.: It's unclear whether Richard Grenell, an openly gay campaign aide who quit Tuesday, left under his own steam or was forced out by anti-gay conservatives.

Did anti-gay conservatives force out a gay Romney aide?

The campaign's openly gay foreign policy spokesman, Richard Grenell, quits — after facing a barrage of complaints over his support of same-sex marriage

 
New York police arrest a bloodied protester Tuesday: More than 50 people were reportedly apprehended for disorderly conduct during May Day demonstrations in cities across the country.

The ho-hum May Day protests: Is the Occupy movement dead?

It was the 99 percent's largest show of force since last fall, but the group is still struggling to recapture the national spotlight

 
President Obama's new ad aggressively targets Mitt Romney: "As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China," the ad says, adding later, "It's just what you'd expect from a guy who had a Swiss bank account."

Obama goes negative: Are positive ads a waste of time?

Team Obama's new ad vigorously attacks Mitt Romney, suggesting that he padded his Swiss bank account while outsourcing U.S. jobs. Expect more of this

 
New York’s ever-changing skyline: A visual history

New York's ever-changing skyline: A visual history

One World Trade Center is now the tallest skyscraper in the Big Apple. Here, a pictorial guide to the buildings that have previously worn the crown

 
President Obama talks with U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. McRaven, who led the NAVY SEALs' Team Six, just days after Osama bin Laden was killed last year.

Will Navy SEALs swift-boat Obama over the bin Laden raid?

A backlash is growing to the victory dance over the terrorist's death, fueling concerns that Obama's biggest foreign policy success could be turned against him

 

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