He hinted at it in an interview last month, and Thursday Charlie Crist took the plunge, asking his girlfriend, Carol Rome, to be his wife.

A …

Barack Obama is spending the holiday at a parade and picnic in Butte, Mont., celebrating not only America’s birthday but also that of his eldest daughter, Malia.

She was serenaded with "Happy Birthday" as the Obama family arrived at …

There are few better summer traditions than the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry and it’s always special when the rivals get together on July 4th.

Today, the clash will be even more notable not just because it’s Yankee Stadium’s final year …

Jesse Helms, an Old South icon who mixed racial politics with an unwavering dedication to a robust American military and foreign policy, died early this morning in his native North Carolina.

Helms, 86, had been in faltering health in …

RNC ads are coming soon to a television near you.

Everyone’s a flip-flopper, according to a new CNN poll.

In other polling news, Americans still prioritize the environment over the economy – …

John McCain, in an interview with Fox’s Carl Cameron today in Mexico City, appears conflicted on how to discuss the elevation of Steve Schmidt in his campaign.

He doesn’t want to offend Rick Davis, a loyalist who helped McCain …

Frank Gamboa, a Latino and McCain’s Annapolis roommate, offers some fairly tough but unnamed criticism of Obama in a new radio spot airing in Nevada and New Mexico.

"This election, it seems to me that the other candidate …

Standing up for his guy Steve Schmidt, RNC communications director Danny Diaz blasts out some oppo on Obama manager David Plouffe to even the score.

It mostly consists of pointing out that Plouffe once worked for New Jersey Sen. …

Some vivid language from Fred Thompson’s speech this morning at the National Right to Life Convention:

"I am disappointed that Wes Clark chose to allow himself to be used this way. He really shouldn’t have. It too easily invokes the image …

As has been anticipated — including by his own former foreign policy adviser — Obama appears to be easing off his support for a timetable of withdrawal from Iraq, saying instead that he’d be driven by conditions on the …