Mitt Romney, who sought to position himself as the true conservative choice for the Republican nomination, announced Thursday that he had ended his campaign.
Even before John McCain faced a skeptical conservative audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference today, he further irritated many by telling conservatives to "calm down" and instead unite behind him.
AP - Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential campaign on Thursday, effectively sealing the Republican presidential nomination for John McCain. "I must now stand aside, for our party and our country," Romney told conservatives.
AP - Senate Republicans and Democrats agreed Thursdsay to add rebates for 20 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans to a House-passed economic aid package, ending a partisan stalemate over the plan.
AP - After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted off Thursday with Europe's gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.
Mitt Romney suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination today, saying if he continued it would "forestall the launch of a national campaign and be making it easier for Sen. Clinton or Obama to win." With Romney out, Sen. John McCain is locked in as the GOP front-runner.
Five people, including a police officer, were killed Thursday as a man barricaded himself inside a Los Angeles house that caught fire during the standoff.