Rudolph Giuliani

Assailants fired dozens of mortars and rockets at an Iranian exiles camp in Iraq in an attack that killed five people, the first violent deaths since they resettled near Baghdad last year.

Top former American officials on Saturday condemned an attack on a camp of Iranian exiles in Iraq that left five dead, and urged Washington to allow the residents to take refuge in the United States.

The number of murders in New York this year fell to its lowest point in 50 years, mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday -- a bit of good news as the United States tries to combat rampant gun violence.

Trailing in most Ohio polls, Mitt Romney on Friday sought an upset in the ultimate battleground, imploring voters to give him a state win that could send him over the top on election day.

New York is cancelling its annual marathon, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Friday, after a fierce backlash over plans to hold the race even as New Yorkers struggle in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg faced a rising backlash Friday over his decision to let New York's annual marathon go ahead this weekend even as many people suffer in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.

President Barack Obama planned to tour superstorm Sandy's debris field Wednesday and Mitt Romney plotted a return to campaigning as the White House race stirred to life days ahead of the vote.

President Barack Obama planned to tour superstorm Sandy's debris field and Mitt Romney plotted a return to campaigning, as high-stakes politics stirred back to life a week from election day.

President Barack Obama planned to tour superstorm Sandy's debris field and Mitt Romney plotted a return to campaigning Tuesday, as high-stakes politics stirred back to life a week from election day.

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney dodged mounting speculation Monday about a potential running mate, even with Senator Marco Rubio, the man now in the VP spotlight, standing right beside him.

Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was campaigning in Pennsylvania ahead of the state's Tuesday primary with Marco Rubio in tow, the US senator widely discussed as a possible running mate.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A black New York City councilman who said he has been stopped by police on numerous occasions introduced a set of bills on Wednesday aimed at curbing the controversial crime-fighting tactic known as "stop and frisk."

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani likes Rick Santorum on foreign policy and the economy but is opposed to his approach on social issues. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani likes Rick Santorum on foreign policy and the economy but is opposed to his approach on social issues. Appearing Friday on CNN, Giuliani gave Santorum a tepid endorsement. ?I like Rick's approach to foreign policy. I like Rick's approach to the economy. We have big differences on social issues. That's why I'm a moderate Republican. That's why I couldn't get nominated, if I ran,? Giuliani said. Santorum is considered the GOP presidential field's most vocal opponent of gay rights, while Giuliani has previously said he supports civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. ?I'm concerned about how do we get back the Northeast as a voting block, when we seem to be not modern enough on social issues.? ?I think biggest problem right now ? I think the gay rights issue is a more current one right one. And I think be

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His campaign is running low on money, he's falling behind in voter surveys and he has begun to aim his biting criticism at the leadership of his own political party.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney has come under fire from Republican rivals over his disclosure that he pays about 15 percent in federal income tax, a rate far lower than most Americans.

Barack Obama's campaign Friday fired off a biting attack on Mitt Romney, branding the US president's likely election foe as a corporate raider who made money "hand over fist" by destroying jobs.

For all the hand-wringing over whether Nevada Republicans should have protected the state's vaunted early caucus, it's beginning to look as if early states are losing their outsize influence over who becomes the presidential nominee.It's still early, but it hasn't been the darlings of Iowa or New Hampshire that have risen to national prominence in the Republican presidential contest. Instead, the plethora of nationally televised debates have done more to shape the dynamics of the 2012 campaign ? boosting the aggressively savvy candidates to front-runner status and all but ending the chances of others to become president.

A group of prominent Americans is lobbying President Barack Obama to lift designation of Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq as a terrorist group, The New York Times reported.

The extraordinary lobbying effort to reverse the terrorist designation of the group, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's Mujahedeen, has won the support of two former CIA directors, R. James Woolsey and Porter J. Goss; a former FBI director, Louis J. Freeh; a former attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey; President George W. Bush's first homeland security chief, Tom Ridge; President Obama's first national security adviser, General James L. Jones; big-name Republicans such as the former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani and Democrats such as former Vermont governor Howard Dean; and even the former top counterterrorism official of the State Department, Dell L. Dailey, who argued unsuccessfully for ending the terrorist label while in office.

The Davids. Sometimes it seems like the only Obama representatives on the Sunday shows are political operatives David Axelrod and David Plouffe. They are both very good at running a sophisticated, national campaign. But they are not policy experts or cabinet secretaries or particularly good on TV. I'd rather hear about jobs from former labor secretary Robert Reich, who has national standing and doesn't get sucked into the political muck of polling, positioning, swing states, etc. By contrast, can you even name Obama's secretary of labor? Google says it's Hilda Solis.