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Big issues are on the table as President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney begin the general election campaign: jobs and the economy, the future of health care, taxes, spending, the size and scope of government. What is missing is any serious discussion of the one question that overrides all others: Can Washington govern?

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is looking like a very unlikely vice-presidential pick for Mitt Romney.

Martinez, who has already said she wouldn’t leave the state because of a developmentally disabled sister, has now also come out against Romney’s illegal immigration policy, saying: “Self-deportation? What the heck does that mean?”

Who needs Camp David?

First lady Michelle Obama hosted the significant others of foreign leaders who are visiting the United States for the Group of Eight summit for a tour and lunch Saturday at the White House while the leaders of the world’s biggest economies talked business elsewhere.

CHICAGO — With world leaders set to arrive in Chicago this weekend for a long-planned summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reinvigorated Occupy protesters plan to take to the streets in large numbers, hoping to disrupt tight security with marches and impromptu street theater in neighborhoods throughout the city.

Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn’s Barack Obama?

The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president.

“They’re both African-American, they’re both strikingly handsome, and they’re both highly intelligent,” said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Jeffries supporter. “Both of them have wonderful smiles.”