The Republican nominee carries on stumbling from one gaffe to another and high-profile party officials are defecting.
Hillary Clinton’s weeks-long book tour suggests the opening salvo of a 2016 presidential run.
As meetings take place to prevent the US government from closing down, a House Republican leader has hinted that his party could offer a new plan.
Boston’s police commissioner has said his department was not briefed on a Russian intelligence warning ahead of the bomb blasts last month.
US senate candidate Richard Mourdock has set himself back with his own supporters after making a controversial comment about abortion and rape.
Mitt Romney will call for a US change of course in the Middle East, saying President Barack Obama’s muddled strategy has failed to confront extremism.
Sounding a note of inclusion that belied tension in the campaign, Mitt Romney has told Hispanic voters he would be president for "100%" of Americans.
Mitt Romney is in the midst of a bruising, costly campaign to oust Barack but one expert has long said the Republican’s efforts are for naught.
CNN says Mitt Romney has won the vote in Ohio after a battle with Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination in the state.
US senators have warned Egypt that the risk of a rupture in ties is growing amid an escalating row over the trial of US pro-democracy activists.