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FILE - In this May 3, 2012, file photo, North Dakota Democratic Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp speaks in Minot, N.D. North Dakota’s prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy four years ago is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

Competitive Senate race shaping up in North Dakota

North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded. Heidi Heitkamp, a former state attorney general with ties to the energy industry and a ...

  • Updated: 2:58 a.m. Wednesday, May 23, 2012
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2010, file photo, Harold Hamm, chief executive officer of Continental Resources Inc. of Enid, Okla., speaks during an Associated Press interview in Bismarck, N.D. Hamm didn’t wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney’s top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super PAC, according to campaign reports. Hamm’s company, Continental Resources Inc., oversees oilfield stakes in North Dakota and Montana, and Hamm has been disdainful of President Barack Obama’s energy policies. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

Romney oil adviser also a big super PAC donor

Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm didn't wait long to make a nearly $1 million donation to a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after he became one of Romney's top energy advisers in March. Just weeks after Hamm joined the Romney campaign, he gave $985,000 to a pro-Romney super ...

  • Updated: 2:53 a.m. Wednesday, May 23, 2012
FILE - In this May 8, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Romney shifting focus from economy to education

Mitt Romney is wading into a new policy arena — the nation's education system — as he broadens his focus to appeal to general election voters still getting to know President Barack Obama's likely opponent. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who has been reluctant to stray far from economic issues, ...

  • Updated: 2:51 a.m. Wednesday, May 23, 2012
President Barack Obama leaves Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 22, 2012, as he returns from the NATO summit in Chicago and Jopin, Mo. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama to address Air Force graduates in Colorado

Fresh off back-to-back international summits, President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy, his annual speech to service academy graduates. Obama will speak Wednesday in Colorado Springs, Colo., days after wrapping up a G-8 summit at Camp David, Md., and a NATO summit in ...

  • Updated: 2:47 a.m. Wednesday, May 23, 2012
FILE - In this May 8, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Lansing, Mich. Romney is looking to pad his lead in the race for convention delegates in Republican presidential primaries Tuesday in Arkansas and Kentucky as he inches closer to the nomination he's all but certain to win. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Romney inches closer to GOP nomination with sweep

Mitt Romney swept the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries Tuesday, inching closer to the GOP nomination he is certain to win. With no serious opposition left, the former Massachusetts governor easily won both contests. He won all 42 delegates at stake in Kentucky and at least 31 of the ...

  • Updated: 11:23 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Keene State College , Tuesday, May 22, 2012 in Keene, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Biden dismisses Romney's experience in business

The presidential campaign debate over Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private equity firm is going down the drain. Vice President Joe Biden argued Tuesday that Romney's experience doesn't make him any more qualified to be president than it does to make him a plumber. "That doesn't mean that private ...

  • Updated: 6:39 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
FILE - In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Chantilly, Va. Romney's courtship of female voters in his speeches sounds a bit like a movie casting call: Woman Whose Husband Took an Upholstery Class. Woman Who Is Back in College to Dodge Her Student Loans. Woman Who Owns Duplexes. Romney's campaign won't identify these women, making it impossible to check on his accounts. But they're serving an important role as Romney looks to narrow the advantage President Barack Obama has with women. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

'A woman who. ...': Romney's stories court females

Mitt Romney's courtship of female voters in his typical campaign speech sounds a bit like a movie's casting call. Woman Whose Husband Took an Upholstery Class. Woman Who Is Going Back To College. Woman Who Owns Duplexes. Romney's campaign won't identify these women, making it impossible to check the accuracy ...

  • Updated: 6:32 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, left, and Joplin Superintendent of Schools C.J. Huff, right, flank President Barack Obama as he takes the stage to deliver the Joplin High School commencement address a day before the anniversary of the twister that killed 161 people, Monday, May 21, 2012, in Joplin, Mo. Obama jetted to Joplin immediately after wrapping up the national security-focused NATO conference in Chicago, the second international summit the president hosted over the past four days. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Shane Keyser)

THE RACE: Polls show presidential race tightening

With about five months to go, the presidential race is tightening, polls show, with voters nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, his likely Republican challenger. Obama and Romney are locked in a dead heat over handling the economy, the top concern of voters, a new Washington ...

  • Updated: 4:13 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2010 file photo, former Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with President Barack Obama, in the Oval Office at the White in Washington. Powell is declining to renew the endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, when he called Obama "a transformational figure." Pressed in a network interview to say whether he's backing Obama, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff demurred Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Powell not ready to endorse Obama for re-election

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell declined Tuesday to renew the presidential endorsement he gave Barack Obama four years ago, saying he wasn't ready "to throw my weight behind someone" at this time. The former chairman of the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff and Cabinet member under President George W. ...

  • Updated: 4:09 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
FILE - In this May 21, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Joplin, Mo. A conservative-leaning independent group is launching a $10 million television ad campaign saying President Barack Obama has not lived up to the expectations voters had for him. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Independent groups launch dueling campaign ads

An independent group seeking to oust President Barack Obama launched a new TV ad Tuesday suggesting Obama had let down the voters who vaulted him into the White House in 2008. A pro-Obama group answered with an ad slamming Republican Mitt Romney, featuring a woman who lost her job at ...

  • Updated: 3:51 p.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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