By Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Rumbling in to its final four weeks, the presidential campaign is playing out on both coasts and multiple fronts, with Republican Mitt Romney seeking stature on foreign affairs and President Barack Obama raising political cash by the millions. Joining celebrities for fund-raising in Los Angeles on Sunday, Obama for the first time needled himself over a poor debate performan ...

By Associated Press President Barack Obama squeaked out a fundraising victory over Mitt Romney in August as the candidates gear up for the final stretch of their closely contested campaign. Obama raised more than $114 million in August, while Romney brought in just over $111 million, according to numbers released early Monday by the rival campaigns. It’s the first time in four months the Democrats have outr ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama‘s campaign and Democrats have raised $181 million combined in September, pulling in the most money in one month during his re-election bid. Obama’s fundraising haul topped the more than $114 million raised by his campaign and Democrats during the month of August. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign and Republicans have not yet reported September fundrai ...

      by Associated  Press              Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has weighed in on                the U.S. presidential race, saying he prefers President Barack Obama. "If I were American, I'd vote for Obama," Chavez said in a televised interview that aired Sunday. The Venezuelan leader called Obama "a good guy" and said if the U.S. president were a Venezuelan, "I think ... he'd vote for Chavez." Ch ...

N.A.M.E. Brand Records recording artist J. Plunky Branch and his group Plunky & Oneness have joined with the Virginia State University Department of Mass Communications ...

Mitt Romney's potential gender gap with women faces a new hurdle in the Latino community ...

  By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, September 11, 2012..........A trial court will decide whether state lawmakers are adequately funding public education after the Florida Supreme Court turned aside a last-ditch effort by Senate President Mike Haridopolos to block the suit. The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday largely hinged on a procedural issue. In November, the 1st ...

By JIM SAUNDERS THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, September 11, 2012.....After months of political and legal wrangling, counties and the state have put on hold a lawsuit about the constitutionality of a new law that would cost counties tens of millions of dollars in disputed Medicaid charges. A document filed Monday in Leon County circuit court calls for an "abatement" of the case until ...

  STATE CAPITAL BRIEFS: MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 2012 THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Posting or forwarding this material without permission is prohibited. Contact news@newsserviceflorida.com SACHS SEEKS TIGHTER RESTRCTIONS ON PARASAILING COSResponding to a tourist's death last month off Pompano Beach, Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, said Monday she will file legislation to place safety and insurance requirements on ...

Charlie Crist's past professions of conservative views because they want Democrats to know he's a dangerous opportunist. ...