PERRY, Iowa –- Rick Perry urged a crowd of supporters not to settle for anything less than an “authentic conservative” in a rally here on Monday night in a town that was aptly named to be the site of his final appeal to Iowans.

Onetime GOP presidential front-runner Herman Cain said Monday he isn't ready to endorse a candidate among his former rivals, repeating a pledge he made when he suspended his race that he wants to focus on building a "national movement" that can help defeat President Obama.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa –- Having criticized the rest of the Republican presidential pack, Rep. Michele Bachmann on Monday laced into Rick Santorum for his past support of earmarking and his 2004 backing of then-GOP Sen. Arlen Specter, who later switched parties to become a Democrat.

MARION, Iowa –- Shedding his customary caution, Mitt Romney appeared to confirm Monday what some polls and pundits are predicting -- that he will finish on top in Tuesday’s caucuses.

Rep. Steve King, the conservative who represents a little under a quarter of all active Republican voters in Iowa, won't endorse a candidate in this year's first-in-the-nation caucuses.

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa – Having faded in the polls after an autumn surge, Newt Gingrich on Monday gave a pessimistic assessment of his chances in Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses.

Sponsoring the media hangout center at the Polk County Convention Complex for this year's Iowa caucus, Google is wooing political journalists with tricked-out treadmills and bean bag chairs. From what we can tell, Google designed its Media Filing Center, which it's co-sponsoring with the AARP, to make the grueling days of political blogging on the campaign trail feel just a little cheerier. 

Tracking the number of patients who die in the hospital might not be the best way to gauge a hospital’s quality, according to a study published on Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Because different hospitals have different policies on when to send patients home, it makes more sense to look at mortality over a set window, such as whether a patient is still alive 30 days from admission, researchers concluded.