Circle May 18 on your calendar. What happens that day will tell us much about the mood of the electorate heading into the November midterm elections.

Former New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte attends at a town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Saturday, March 13, 2010. Sen. John McCain is back in New Hampshire to campaign for fellow Republican Kelly Ayotte.

HUGHES SPRINGS, Texas—Rachel Thomas McCain Benjamin, 70, of Hughes Springs died Friday, March 12, 2010, at her home.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Republican candidate running to replace Rep. Patrick Kennedy in Congress says he's getting help in his bid from several former GOP presidential candidates.

The North Central Wisconsin Region chapter of the American Red Cross would be a different organization without McCain Foods.

NASHUA, N.H. - Sen. John McCain returned to New Hampshire to campaign for fellow Republican Kelly Ayotte, who is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Judd Gregg. McCain, who won New Hampshire's GOP presidential primaries in 2000 and 2008, held a town hall meeting with Ayotte in Nashua Saturday. McCain praised Ayotte's background as a former state attorney general and said she would ...

A survey of grass-roots tea party leaders cites John McCain as the largest GOP disappointment.

Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.