President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney are clashing in a reinvigorated election-year debate over tax fairness, with both sides claiming their position is best for a struggling middle class.

President Barack Obama's campaign and the Democratic party raised $71 million in June, well below the $106 million hauled in by rival Mitt Romney and the Republican party during the same period.

President Barack Obama is launching a push to extend tax cuts for the middle class, as he seeks to shift the election-year economic debate away from the dismal jobs market.

On Thursday, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page ripped the Romney campaign for its fumbling of the debate over whether the health care law signed by President Obama includes a tax.

The legislative draft envisions reducing current food stamp spending projections by $1.6 billion a year, four times the amount of cuts incorporated in the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill passed by the Senate last month.

Former state Sen. Rosalind Kurita has lost a federal appeal of her ouster as the Democratic nominee in her 2008 bid for re-election to the Tennessee General Assembly.

The former Countrywide Financial Corp., whose subprime loans helped start the nation's foreclosure crisis, made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress.

Mitt Romney's wife has disclosed a tantalizing detail about her husband's intensely secret vice presidential search: He's considering choosing a woman.

Justice Antonin Scalia drew unusually critical attention during this past Supreme Court term for comments he made in court and in his writing that seemed to some more political than judicial.

A majority of economists in the latest Associated Press Economy Survey expect the national unemployment rate to stay above 6 percent for at least four more years.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says he's developed a plan to reform taxes and balance the federal budget, but he's not planning to release details until after the election.

For nearly 15 years, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's financial portfolio has included an offshore company that remained invisible to voters as his political star rose.

The Environmental Defense Fund said Tuesday it is spending about $200,000 to air the ad in Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville, Jackson and Memphis this week.

In a television advertisement released Tuesday, the campaign says Romney invested in companies that moved jobs overseas and supports tax breaks for companies that do so.

After the Supreme Court upheld the law last week, Obama stepped forward to tell Americans what good will come from it. Romney was quick to lay out the harm

President Barack Obama is repeating his assurance that Americans who like their health insurance can simply keep it. Republican rival Mitt Romney says quite the opposite.

As President Barack Obama surveys damage from raging wildfires, he also will be seeking to show voters that he is a compassionate leader who can command in a crisis.

The House and Senate are poised to vote on a legislative package that would overhaul highway and transit programs, create 3 million jobs and spare millions of students.

President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his health care overhaul is a "victory for people all over the country" and will make their lives more secure.

The Supreme Court has struck down a federal law making it a crime to lie about having received the Medal of Honor and other prized military awards.

The Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul marks a key pivot point in the presidential race. But neither side knows which direction the high court's decision will turn the contest.

Congressional leaders are aiming for final passage by week's end of legislation reshaping federal transportation programs and preventing a doubling of interest rates for millions of new student loans.

Congressman Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan plans to donate his leftover campaign money to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis

Five-term Rep. John Sullivan fell to a tea party backed opponent in Oklahoma while Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch easily defeated another candidate backed by the insurgent group.

With a vote looming to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a House committee chairman is challenging President Barack Obama's claim of executive privilege.