New Hampshire has become the hot spot for action in the Republican presidential race, as Iowa is for Democrats. ...more

December 10, 2007

New Hampshire made John McCain the last time he sought the White House. Now he's hoping the nation's first primary can save him. ...more

December 9, 2007

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was in Washington on Tuesday to raise money and to see me. In a nondescript office building two blocks from the White House, Giuliani answered a wide range of questions on domestic and foreign policy. ...more

December 6, 2007

Republican Mitt Romney, ridiculed by rival Rudy Giuliani for employing illegal immigrants at his "sanctuary mansion," said Tuesday he had fired the landscaper for his suburban Boston home after learning for a second time about undocumented workers laboring on the property. ...more

December 5, 2007

In Miami last month, Colombian immigrant Carlos Cruz Gallego testified against a man accused of beating him with a piece of re-bar. After his testimony, authorities detained Gallego for being in this country illegally, leading immigration advocates to howl in protest. ...more

December 2, 2007

Florida's most important issues got short shrift during Wednesday night's CNN/YouTube presidential debate in St. Petersburg, but with the Iowa caucuses just five weeks away, the showdown better clarified the differences between the Republican frontrunners. ...more

November 30, 2007

The Republican presidential primary front-runners, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, took a pounding from each other and their competitors on red meat GOP issues including immigration, gun control, crime and abortion in the CNN/YouTube presidential candidates debate at the Mahaffey Theater on Wednesday. ...more

November 29, 2007

Where will the debate take place? At the Mahaffey Theater in downtown St. Petersburg. ...more

November 28, 2007

Wasteful spender or champion of fiscal restraint: GOP presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani accused one another of the former and claimed the latter Saturday. ...more

November 25, 2007

Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said Friday that New York City is not a model for the rest of the country and that Rudy Giuliani should stop basing his stances on his time as that city's mayor. ...more

November 24, 2007