President Barack Obama poked fun at his likely presidential rival Mitt Romney and Republican opponents in Congress, including a dig at Romney’s treatment of a pet dog, at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

NEWT GINGRICH may have won the endorsement of Texas Governor Rick Perry, but his second ex-wife, Marianne, told Americans last night her former husband sought an open marriage and was conning the electorate.

THE Republican presidential candidates who are not Mitt Romney brought along modest hopes on their smiling, hand-shaking visits to New Hampshire’s polling places yesterday — just let me come in third place or so, most said, and survive to challenge the front-runner again in South Carolina and Florida.

FORMER House speaker Newt Gingrich is running for president.