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Administration grants more states relief from No Child education law
The Obama administration stepped up its effort to release states from the No Child Left Behind law Friday, with the Education Department approving two more waiver requests.
Axelrod on Romney: 'He folded'
David Axelrod, President Obama's chief messaging guru, continued the campaign's all-out push on Friday to highlight presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney's changing position on whether the individual insurance mandate in Mr. Obama's health care overhaul is a penalty or a tax.
Latest Maryland basketball schedule bit: Nov. 20 vs. Lafayette
Patriot League school to visit College Park for first time since 1996.
Political director brags on Twitter about RNC/Romney fundraising
The Republican National Committee's political director said Thursday that the national party and presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign had raised more than $100 million last month — surpassing their previous, and equally impressive, monthly hauls.
Former Redskins RB Stephen Davis sues NFL over concussions
Former Washington Redskins Pro Bowl running back Stephen Davis is the latest big name to sue the NFL over concussions.
PICKET: Axelrod - Romney ‘Most Secretive Candidate’ Since Nixon
Senior Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod told ABC News Radio White House correspondent Ann Compton on Thursday he thinks that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is "the most secretive candidate that we’ve seen, frankly, since Richard Nixon."
PICKET: Rasmussen - 84 pct of adults 'proud' to call themselves Americans
Songwriter and singer Lee Greenwood did not need a Rasmussen poll to tell him lyrics of his 30 year old single "God Bless The USA" polls very well with the country too. According to a Rasmussen, however, 84 percent of American adult are "proud" to call themselves Americans. Only seven percent do not feel that way and nine percent are not sure.
Health care law is 'here to stay'
President Obama, during a campaign stop in a Toledo, Ohio suburb Thursday, declared victory in the legal battle over his health care law.
Libertarian nominee demands poll access
The campaign of Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee, sent letters to major polling firms this week asking them to include him in any surveys they conduct as a prelude to trying to earn his way into the presidential debates this fall.
By phone, Obama woos teachers
President Obama on Thursday appealed to the nation's largest labor union for help during the home stretch of his re-election campaign.
Rep. Jackson to receive more medical care
Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., who took a leave of absence from his congressional work last month because of exhaustion, is in worse medical shape than first realized and will receive extended medical help.
Obama camp: Mandate a penalty, not a tax
President Obama's re-election campaign said Thursday the individual mandate in his health care law is a "penalty," not a tax — though Mr. Obama's own Solicitor General argued in March the law was constitutional under Congress's taxing authority.
Terps add Aussie specialist to football freshman class
Craddock will have four years of eligibility at Maryland
Obama hosts troops at White House for fireworks
President Obama and the first family spent the early evening of the Fourth of July thanking military service members and their families for their sacrifice at a barbecue and concert on the South lawn of the White House.
WISER: Obama vs. Bush on White House pay
The White House payroll of $37.8 million has declined since Obama first entered the Oval Office in 2009, when a staff of 487 employees earned total wages of $39.1 million. But how does this compare to George W. Bush's administration?
Obama praises actor Andy Griffith
President Obama issued a statement Tuesday paying tribute to Andy Griffith, the television legend who died Tuesday at age 86.
One House Dem to join health care repeal drive
At least one Democrat will join House Republicans when they vote next week to repeal President Obama's health care law.
Obama ad hits Romney on outsourcing
President Obama's re-election campaign is out with a new nine-state ad blitz that accuses presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney of shipping American jobs outside the country.
