A New York medical examiner will begin an autopsy Thursday on Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was found dead at her Westchester County home.
It had all the appearances of a serious-minded debate: Republicans insisted the Senate spend all day Wednesday arguing which party had better budget proposals to fix the economy.
The partisan impasse over potential contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder continues following a lengthy letter from the deputy attorney general, and a blunt response from the House Oversight Committee chairman.
President Obama and congressional leaders met Wednesday, one day after House Speaker John Boehner drew a line in the sand over what could be another bitter showdown between the White House and Congress later this year.
"The War on Women" is one of the harshest election-year attack lines congressional Democrats have launched at Republicans, accusing them of waging this war on issues ranging from contraception to preventive health care coverage.
President Obama and Mitt Romney may have different political and economic views, but they are both propped up by highly affluent power brokers who are expecting big returns for the big checks they are writing.
Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame-duck session after the November elections.
Despite the heated campaign, lackluster performance on the economy and negative feelings many conservatives have toward President Obama, many voters still like Obama as a person.
Predictions of super PAC-fueled campaign ugliness seemed to come to reality on Thursday when reports broke of a potential conservative group's ad campaign aimed at tying President Barack Obama to a controversy put to rest nearly four years ago.
Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.
Predictions of super PAC-fueled campaign ugliness seemed to come to reality on Thursday when reports broke of a potential conservative group's ad campaign aimed at tying President Barack Obama to a controversy put to rest nearly four years ago.
Despite the heated campaign, lackluster performance on the economy and negative feelings many conservatives have toward President Obama, many voters still like Obama as a person.
The jury will begin deciding the fate of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards Friday, a day after closing arguments concluded in the corruption trial.
Alabama's governor on Thursday called in lawmakers for a special session in part to further explore changes to the state's anti-illegal immigration law, considered the country's toughest.
Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.
Republicans blocked an attempt by Senate Democrats on Thursday to pass new sanctions against Iran, complaining the final language in the bill, which they had negotiated for months, is not tough enough to deter Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
President Obama's re-election team has turned the candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal: The outsider who flew above polarized politics now does nothing but campaign and polarize.
Cecile Richards says the candidate promises to kill health reform act and "get rid" of Planned Parenthood, irresponsible threats that affect the well-being of real women.
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