“Happy Tax Day,” said Tennessee Rep. Martha Blackburn to a crowd of tea partiers gathered at the Washington Monument Thursday evening. “Do you feel like you're getting your money's worth?”
SEOUL, South Korea - Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was hospitalized on Saturday after he complained of stomach pains, NBC News reported.
SIOUX CITY - Hundreds of fans of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gathered at a bookstore in Sioux City, Iowa, waiting early Sunday morning for Palin to arrive and begin autographing copies of her book, “Going Rogue.”
- Despite all the money and attention former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s autobiography is expected to draw as it hits bookshelves this week, it’s difficult to think of a national political figure who’s had a rougher year than the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee.
- The 2009 gubernatorial elections provided a much-needed momentum boost for Republicans after back-to-back election cycle drubbings.
- President Barack Obama believes in the saving grace of the federal government.
- Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics.
- A woman's "paramount destiny and mission," a U.S. Supreme Court justice once wrote, is to fulfill "the noble and benign offices of wife and mother."
The news that Social Security benefits will likely be frozen next year dismays many older Americans, who fear that rising expenses for necessities would drive them into retirement poverty.&
Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who has drawn fully clothed attention by saying she is considering a run for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana, was free this week after posting bond on a domestic violence charge.
- I have covered politics for a long time. I can tell when someone is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for president.
When the University of Southern California’s juggernaut football team opens its season in September, could the Trojans be playing at the Taco Bell Coliseum?
- Former top White House official Karl Rove will be interviewed Friday as part of an ongoing probe into the firing of U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
NEW YORK - David Hackett Souter is not of this world. At least not the world many of us living in this nation's population centers experience on a daily basis in 2009.
WAKEFIELD, Va. - Across the country, several states host annual time-honored festivals mixing fun, food and politics.
- When it comes to political races, 2008 will certainly go down as a year to remember.
Despite a dizzying decline in tax revenues, many states aren’t lopping their payrolls as fast as private sector employers. And some intend to use part of the federal stimulus windfall headed their way to keep employees on their payrolls — at least for now.
Despite the recent Gulf Coast spill, six in 10 Americans support more offshore drilling, with a majority believing that the potential economic benefits outweigh the environmental risks.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he spent last weekend in Florida with his Argentine lover, hoping to rekindle the affair that wrecked his marriage and his political future.
The Republicans have picked Tampa for their 2012 presidential convention.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday defended his organization's lavish spending as he sought to contain the damage from a donor event at a sex-themed nightclub and the use of private jets and limousines.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan embarks on her quest for Senate confirmation with a strong presumption of success, drawing praise from majority Democrats and nary the threat of an all-out election-year battle from Republicans.
The White House says Vice President Joe Biden's son Beau Biden is undergoing treatment at a Delaware hospital.
The Atlantic: The effect of a Democratic president filling the seat of Republican-appointed Justice John Paul Stevens will likely be to make the Court more conservative.
President Barack Obama appears to be just days away from announcing his choice to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, and observers in the nation's capital are playing one of the city's most popular games: guessing.
A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could undermine support for offshore drilling, just as lawmakers were warming to the practice, and even upset hopes for winning bipartisan support to climate legislation.
Now the Republican front-runner for a U.S. Senate seat, Marco Rubio is trying to weather revelations about his credit card use, double billing for airfare and murky finances.
Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency staffers spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers.
Sarah Palin has taken the stand at the trial of a former University of Tennessee student accused of hacking into her e-mail account.
Sen. Scott Brown says he thinks former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is qualified to be president but right now he's supporting former Gov. Mitt Romney for the 2012 Republican nomination.
The city is high on organic food, snobby about craft beers and tattoos, home to the University of Oregon, and dependably votes Democratic. So what's Sarah Palin doing here?
Arizona lawmakers expressing doubt over whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States are pushing a bill that would require him to show his birth certificate to get on the state's 2012 ballot.
South Carolina's capital city has elected its first black mayor.
Florida Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio says he has nothing to hide about his use of a credit card issued through the state GOP.
His tenure on the Supreme Court touched four decades, following service in a war that defined his generation and a childhood in a prominent family. He celebrated his 90th birthday among court colleagues at least a dozen years younger.
A California open-government group has filed a lawsuit against a state university for failing to disclose documents related to a planned speech by Sarah Palin.
Tea Party rallies occurred all over the nation on Thursday. Members oppose high taxes, government spending, and what they see as a lack of adherence to the Constitution by a Democrat-led Washington. Members of the Tea Party say they represent the "average citizen."
Former CIA Director Porter Goss agreed with a 2005 decision to destroy interrogation videos showing waterboarding, newly released CIA documents show.
Hundreds of organized rallies will be held across the country by tea party activists Thursday, including large gatherings in Atlanta, Sacramento, DC, Charlotte, and south Florida.
Tea party activists rallied in the capital they love to hate on Thursday, carrying signs that read "Don't Tread on Me" and "Follow the Constitution." The close of their spirited cross-country tour fell on tax day, a dark marker for the conservative anti-tax movement.
A California university president says a portion of a contract between a school foundation and Sarah Palin for an upcoming speech was stolen from a campus administrator's office last week.
The tea party movement returned Wednesday to the city from which its revolutionary spirit was born, with Sarah Palin headlining a rally before the activists' cross-country tour ends in Washington on Tax Day.