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A bill that proposes a ban on gay marriage on the 2012 ballot passed the Senate Rules Committee on Friday morning and will now head to the Senate floor for a full vote.

Republican House candidates, especially challengers seeking to portray themselves as outsiders to Washington politics, are almost universally running on a

A new NBC poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the Obama administration’s decision not to release the photos of Osama bin

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the governor’s supporters.

The New York Times editorializes today about the failure of the DISCLOSE Act, chastising Republicans for seeking the right to poison the political atmosphere

A new poll from EPIC-MRA has found that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, holds a slight lead over President Barack Obama in the state in next year’s presidential election

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit is blaming his company’s considerable troubles on moves by previous management to dive into real estate. In a particularly generous

Let’s say a preacher appeared on a massively popular TV show and offered scriptural justification for an unprovoked attack on a foreign country. What would you

The Environmental Protection Agency released an endangerment finding today that states that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and

In a follow-up to yesterday’s story about Colorado’s GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck and his spotty record of prosecuting rape cases in Weld County, the

For Detroit’s automakers, the bad news just got worse. Just hours after Chrysler announced a request for $5 billion more in federal help to prevent bankruptcy,

Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, read The Associated Press’ story about President-elect Barack Obama possibly ordering the military to plan the

The Michigan Department of Treasury has warned 300 tobacco shops that machines they have which roll cigarettes on location may be considered illegal.

Tomorrow, the House reconvenes to vote on a $26.1 billion state aid package, providing Medicaid and teachers’ jobs funding to cash-strapped states. And while

Perhaps there’s nothing eye-popping about a small-town mayor rejoicing over a big-time check from Washington, but in the context of Alaska Gov. Sarah

The donation of an anthology of post-9/11 commentary by Professor Noam Chomsky has been rejected from the library at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, reports The

Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign released a video this weekend targeting virtually all of the Republican presidential front-runners for flip-flopping.

In 15 minutes it gets underway: Attorney General Eric Holder’s first big round of testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee since the right began raising

EL PASO, Tex. -- A McCain campaign conference call went bad this afternoon when Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency aggressively pressed former New

After I wrote my story this morning on the National Tea Party Convention and the troubles the movement’s been having as it moves into the political big time, I

So says Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), head of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who announced this afternoon that the panel will hold hearings on

Buried in that New York Times story I mentioned earlier about Obama’s quest for a CIA director comes this weird quote from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that