President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both.

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The Obama administration is ordering federal, state and local prisons to increase efforts to stop prison rape by issuing mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations in hopes of reducing sexual victimization behind bars. Read entire article...

New Republican ads featuring President Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright and his inflammatory comments may not be made after all. The New York Times reported today that a new “super PAC” supporting Mitt Romney was planning to replay the indignation over Wright’s controversial sermons that... Read entire article...

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought to distance himself Thursday from a GOP-leaning independent group's plan for a $10 million TV ad campaign renewing attention to President Barack Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor. Obama's campaign accused Romney of failing to show "moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party."

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BALTIMORE (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that raising the debt ceiling did not have to be a crisis as it was last year when partisan bickering over how to do so cost the United States its top credit rating. "It's not responsible to put at risk people's confidence in the credibility of the United States," Geithner said at the Greater Baltimore Committee group of regional businesses and nonprofit organizations. ...

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The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying it can no longer wait for Congress to decide how to cut postal costs. Read entire article...