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When Mitt Romney was a good-looking teen in the buttoned-up `60s, corporal punishment was the norm and bullying had a different, more acceptable name: hijinks....

Mitt Romney is countering the notion that he bullied high school classmates and insists he didn't know some were gay.

December 2011 was a busy month for supporters of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. The former speaker of the House had surged ahead of his Republican rivals in several polls. Suddenly he was being barraged by negative TV ads produced by Restore Our Future, a Super PAC for rival candidate Mitt Romney.

Rick Santorum defended his late-night e-mail endorsing former GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney... But the timing -- and the fact that Santorum didn't get around to saying he was backing Romney until the 13th paragraph of the letter -- sent a message that Santorum's endorsement was tepid. He dismissed that idea.

Rick Santorum is endorsing his one-time bitter rival Mitt Romney in a late-night e-mail to his supporters. Santorum on Monday urged his supporters to join him in working with the effective Republican nominee to deny President Barack Obama a second term.

Mitt Romney drew criticism Monday after he failed to challenge a questioner who suggested at a campaign event that President Obama should be tried for treason.

While seeking the Republican nomination for president for much of last year, Michele Bachmann urged voters in her party to support her as the true conservative in the race — a plea that was an implicit dig at front-runner Mitt Romney.

Rick Santorum and Marco Rubio are the top two choices among Republican voters as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.

Newt Gingrich brought his presidential campaign to an anticlimactic close Wednesday before several dozen family members, aides and supporters at a suburban Washington hotel.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney stepped away from the campaign trail this morning for a private meeting with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.