WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will find his diplomatic clout tested at twin summits on his own turf beginning Friday. The big global problems are the economic mess in Europe and finding scarce money to boost a postwar Afghanistan - and in both cases the solutions lie mostly overseas.

Barack Obama will headline his first re-election rallies next week in an important turning point in the race for the White House as Republican nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney stepped up efforts to unite his party and raise money for the battle ahead.

The Republican presidential nomination all but in hand, Mitt Romney is refocusing his efforts on challenging President Barack Obama, raising cash for the battle ahead and reconciling with onetime primary rival Rick Santorum.

President Barack Obama is treating Arizona as a swing state this year, but so far Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, is dominating the state by one important measure: money.

President Barack Obama has cheered on 22 injured service members who spun their way around the South Lawn of the White House in specially built bikes, part of a Wounded Warrior Project#39;s Soldier Ride to raise money and attention for their cause.