Mitt Romney has swept all the delegates in the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries, putting him within one win of claiming the Republican nomination for president.

Sarah Palin abandoned her tendency to go with the Tea Party choice, instead backing six-term incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch over state Sen. Dan Liljenquist in the Utah Senate GOP primary and calling him “Mr. Balanced Budget for Utah” in a Facebook post Tuesday night. Liljenquist...

Mitt Romney swept the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries Tuesday, inching closer to the GOP nomination he is certain to win.

Mitt Romney won the Kentucky Republican primary on Tuesday, moving him closer to winning the delegates necessarily to formally secure the GOP presidential nomination.

Mitt Romney won the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican primaries on Tuesday, moving him closer to winning the delegates necessarily to formally secure the GOP presidential nomination.

Romney wins GOP presidential primary in Kentucky.

Criticism from two key U.S. senators pushing back on the decision to hold an upcoming conference for federal judges on Maui prompted a Hawaii official to defend the islands Tuesday as a place of business.

Democratic hopes for toppling Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in next month's recall may hinge on a strong turnout from young voters, who came out in heavy numbers for President Barack Obama in 2008 but who were less active when Walker was elected two years later.

LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A Republican New Hampshire legislator has apologized for calling a former state GOP official who endorsed his political rival a "stripper" and a "pole dancer," party members said on Tuesday.

LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A Republican New Hampshire legislator has apologized for calling a former state GOP official who endorsed his political rival a "stripper" and a "pole dancer," party members said on Tuesday. The outburst at a GOP picnic over the weekend in Goffstown, New Hampshire, targeted Pam ...