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Former President George H.W. Bush plans to endorse Mitt Romney at an event Thursday in Houston... Formal backing from the 41st president is another sign that the Republican Party is uniting behind Romney as pressure builds on challengers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich to leave the race.

Mitt Romney is getting some heat from Dmitry Medvedev and House Speaker John Boehner for calling Russia the "No. 1 geopolitical foe" of the United States. The Russian president said today that Romney's comments, made during a CNN interview on Monday, are out of date. The speaker, meanwhile, said it's not right for anyone to criticize Obama or the United States while the president is traveling overseas.

Republicans went to the polls Saturday in Louisiana to vote in a primary poised to give a boost to Rick Santorum, but also add to Mitt Romney’s growing, if not insurmountable delegate lead in the race for the GOP nomination.

For the first time, Mitt Romney reaches 40% support among Republicans in the Gallup daily tracking poll.

... the Romney campaign inadvertently gave Mr. Santorum a new supply when a senior adviser went on CNN and seemed to suggest that Mr. Romney’s conservative positions in the primary season could change like an Etch a Sketch drawing.

Mitt Romney received a major boost by getting the endorsement of former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida.

As consumer confidence creeps back, the Republican acknowledges improvements but maintains that Obama's policies made things worse. In November, the president will have to walk a careful line of his own.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be headed for an important victory in Illinois on Tuesday that would help him put more distance between himself and Rick Santorum, his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination.

Mitt Romney’s campaign said his win in Puerto Rico was the latest sign of his strength over Rick Santorum as attention in the Republican presidential contest turned to Illinois.

The Republican primary process rolls on nearly eleven months after it kicked off in Iowa, and with no definitive end in sight. On Saturday, Missouri began its process of awarding delegates to presidential contenders and the campaigns of Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum each looked to win the more aggressively-contested primary in Puerto Rico on Sunday.