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Caroline Kennedy opens up about father’s secret recordings

Caroline Kennedy speaks out on her father’s secret recordings, which cover key events like the Cuban missile crisis, the arms race, and the Vietnam war. Read More

Richard Mourdock

Republicans run from Mourdock

Several high-profile Republicans are distancing themselves from Indiana Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock, who is under fire for suggesting rape “is something that God intended to happen” as an argument against abortion. Read More

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Sarah Palin on Obama’s ‘shuck and jive’

Sarah Palin adds to conservatives' election season race-baiting with an inflammatory description of the Obama administration's handling of the attack in Benghazi. Read More

President Obama, pictured in Florida earlier this week, will make stops in four states on Thursday. (Photo: AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Today on the campaign trail: Thursday, Oct. 25

President Obama is taking an ambitious tour through several swing states Thursday - and is even stopping back home in Illinois to vote. Read More

President Obama appeared on 'The Tonight Show' with Jay Leno on Wednesday night.

Let Me Start: Abortion politics

Abortion politics continue to dominate the election season as November 6 nears. Plus, Electoral College math, a big endorsement for President Obama, and Sarah Palin defends her use of the racially-tinged phrase "shuck and jive" to describe the president's actions on Libya. Read More

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Palin, Trump continue to lead right-wing hate party against Obama

It's the severe conservatives who keep leading the hate march against Barack Obama, and they won't stop until they've completely delegitimized his entire presidency. Read More

Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani: I disagree with the GOP 30% of the time

Failed 2008 GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani dished on the state of this year's race and on his lack of interest in a position with a potential Romney administration. Read More

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Why Mourdock’s rape remarks could hurt Romney

The new GOP poster boy for the war on women could really damage Mitt Romney's White House hopes. Read More

Donald Trump

Vote: Why is Donald Trump demanding more of Obama’s records?

Donald Trump has finally unleashed his overhyped "major" announcement. Read More

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney listens during the third presidential debate with President Barack Obama

Mitt sprints away from Mourdock after pregnancy-rape remark

Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana, is under fire for arguing that pregnancies resulting from rape are "something that God intended to happen. Read More