Reporting from Washington – The most heated controversy over the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down parts of the nation’s campaign-funding laws has focused on whether the decision frees foreign corporations to pour money into American electio…
Haitian police arrested 10 U.S. citizens after they tried to take 33 Haitian children out of the earthquake-stricken nation, authorities said Saturday.
In a trial that never became the referendum on abortion that some abortion foes wanted, Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old airport shuttle driver, was convicted today of murdering George Tiller, one the nation’s few physicians who performed late-term abor…
A television host’s five little words in reference to Barack Obama — “I forgot he was black” — have exposed a contradiction in the idea of a post-racial nation.
The nation cannot afford the spending Democrats have enacted or the tax increases they propose, Virginia Gov.
A year into his presidency, we are less sure than ever who Barack Obama really is — what he believes, what’s in his heart and gut — and whether he has what it takes to be president.
U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves on Monday began the 2010 count of the nation’s residents in a village in Alaska’s arctic hinterlands.
“We are going to see now an inundation of special-interest money into political campaigns,I think that diminishes the influence of average citizens.” On “Face the Nation,” Jan. 24, 2010. Senator John McCain, who helped rewrite the nat…
The U.S. Census Bureau chief is heading to a remote Inupiat Eskimo village to formally begin the nation’s 2010 tally on Monday.
A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation’s most populous state, two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president’s national health care plan…