Anthony Weiner wants New York voters to forgive and fuhgeddaboudit. The disgraced former Democratic congressman entered the New York City mayor's race late Tuesday, another politician asking for redemption through re-election. "I made some big mistak ...

DENVER -- Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision to block the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap for as long as he is governor infuriated victims' relatives and drew quick criticism from Republicans ahead of the 2014 election. Hickenlo ...

First responders had not finished counting the bodies, which included those of schoolchildren, when Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., politicized the tornado that devastated Moore, Okla. In a 15-minute speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Whitehouse ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is starting to resemble a slapstick comedy. Veteran CBS journalist Bob Schieffer ripped IRS employees who targeted Tea Party and conservative groups as "dumb and dumber" yesterday. "Why would anyone break into a ...

Frantic Democrats want tough action in the ongoing IRS scandal, fearing the damage that a slow bleed could do to their own electoral futures as President Obama struggles to get out ahead of the issue. U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Malden), running fo ...

About 300 labor union members and other activists staged a demonstration to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A. headquarters of Oaktree Cap ...

The White House must make clear if it played any role in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, the top Republican U.S. senator said. "What we don't know at this point is whether it jumped the fence from the IRS to the White ...

[caption id="attachment_23489" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)[/caption]WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is dismissing Republican criticism of his administration's handling of the attack on a U.S. diplomatic pos ...

The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 downing of a helicopter in Afghanistan came forward Thursday to blast the U.S. command and the Obama administration for the mission and to call for an official investigation into what they deem a wh ...

[caption id="attachment_6780" align="alignright" width="300"] (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)[/caption]WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain yesterday called the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi, Libya, consulate attack a "coverup" that r ...