• Control of the Senate could be decided by funding push for female candidates

    Control of the Senate could be decided by funding push for female candidates

    Aug 20, 2014 01:47 PM EST

    ... backs female contenders who support abortion rights. The Emily's List network of committees raised more than most other outside groups, including the GOP-backed American Crossroads and the anti-tax Club for Growth. According to campaign finance documents filed Tuesday, one of the newest benefactors for Emily's List ...

  • Former Justice Stevens: Campaign money isn't speech

    Former Justice Stevens: Campaign money isn't speech

    Apr 30, 2014 08:44 PM EST

    ... speech rights. Campaign donations pay for ads, of course. But that money also pays for polling, operatives' salaries and offices -- the nuts and bolts of a campaign operation that aren't necessarily speech. The Karl Rove-supported American Crossroads super PAC raised almost $5.2 million last month from three ...

  • Putin, Ukraine continue to test Obama

    Putin, Ukraine continue to test Obama

    Apr 21, 2014 01:07 PM EST

    ... are found in contempt of Congress. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee outraised their Republican counterpart by $400,000 in March. Getting back to fundraising after a year off, American Crossroads raised more in March than in the previous 14 months combined, but their fundraising base includes three corporations and just ...

  • Ryan to release latest budget with little fanfare

    Ryan to release latest budget with little fanfare

    Apr 01, 2014 01:24 PM EST

    ... says her trek recalls “images from the disastrous trip to Washington by the heads of Detroit’s automakers five years ago during the automotive crisis.” American Crossroads released a new TV ad Tuesday in support of Thom Tillis’ campaign for the GOP nomination in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate ...

  • Outside groups start fundraising early ahead of Senate midterm elections

    Outside groups start fundraising early ahead of Senate midterm elections

    Feb 07, 2014 02:52 AM EST

    ... all play out in the end. One thing that's been striking is some of the really big conservative super PACs from 2012, such as American Crossroads, have had really paltry fund-raising so far this year. There's definitely a sense among conservative donors that I think they're ...

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    Pope Benedict XVI Cites Advancing Age and Poor Health for Resignation

    Feb 11, 2013 04:00 PM EST

    ... Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff ...

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    Obama, Boehner Still Talking, but No Closer

    Dec 12, 2012 02:08 PM EST

    House Speaker John Boehner talks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have picked up the pace of their negotiations over the fiscal cliff, but they do not appear any closer to reaching an agreement to averting nearly $500 billion in automatic tax...

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    Three More Battleground Polls Give Obama the Edge

    Sep 28, 2012 01:04 PM EST

    President Obama campaigns Thursday in Virginia Beach. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Friday may be a new day, but for the most part it's the same old story when it comes to the latest batch of battleground state polls. President Obama leads Mitt Romney by seven points, 51 percent to 44 percent, in New Hampshire,...

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    New Polling Puts Women Voters In Sharp Focus

    Jul 13, 2012 07:12 PM EST

    A woman votes in the New Hampshire primary in January. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images Democrats and Republicans alike acknowledge one of the main keys to success at the polls this November lies in luring women voters. Both sides were out targeting that critical demographic in force this week as new polling data shed light...

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    News Wrap: Eurozone Agrees to Spain Bailout Package; Oil Prices Fall

    Jul 10, 2012 04:00 AM EST

    In other news Tuesday, Spain will get its first bailout payment of more than $36 billion before the end of the month. In early trading on Wall Street, stocks moved higher, but gains were erased by falling oil prices.