Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the state needs to decide soon what health benefits it would offer under federal health care reform.During a meeting with heal...

Vice President Joe Biden will campaign this weekend in Ohio's Appalachian region, an area loaded with white, working-class voters that President Barack Obama's campaign hopes ...

Former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle and U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono are facing each other in the first of five general election debates in their race to replace U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka....

Pine Bluff Mayor Carl Redus Jr. has filed a lawsuit that seeks to stop the November mayoral election.Redus wants to remain mayor for an additional two years to realign the cit...

Actress Eva Longoria says her speech to the Democratic convention will be very different from Clint Eastwood's speech to Republicans.Longoria tells NBC's "Today" the...

Actress Eva Longoria says her speech to the Democratic convention will be very different from Clint Eastwood's speech to Republicans.Longoria tells NBC's "Today" the...

Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in Ohio's Appalachian region in the aftermath of the Democratic National Convention.The Obama campaign had said earlier that Biden would...

President Barack Obama is expected to lay out his vision for a second term, even as advisers say they don't anticipate a big bounce in the polls following the Democratic Natio...

President Barack Obama goes before the Democratic National Convention and the nation on Thursday for a capstone speech designed not just to persuade undecided voters to swing ...

Former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard has asked a federal judge to move his corruption trial out of New Orleans, saying extensive media coverage could prejudice ju...

A Providence lobbying and consulting firm has hired the former director of Rhode Island's Economic Development Corp. who resigned over 38 Studios' financial troubles.The Provi...

President Barack Obama takes the podium at the Democratic convention Thursday to accept the party's nomination for a second White House term, his candidacy lifted by the stirr...

Syrian troops recaptured from rebels Thursday a border town used by refugees to cross to Jordan, activists said, an apparent bid by the regime to stem the flood of Syrians fle...

President Vladimir Putin says Russia can work with Mitt Romney if he's elected U.S. president, even though Romney has called Russia the United States' "No. 1 geopolitical...

New York state's Board of Elections is considering regulations to make super political action committees more accountable for their often nasty campaign ads that are supposed ...

If you're feeling buried by nasty political ads from your television, there's good reason.A Virginia Public Access Project analysis shows that independent groups have already ...

Bribery and illegal surveillance accusations against a former Chinese police chief point to malfeasance within the circle of disgraced politician Bo Xilai extending beyond the...

New Britain officials have moved a step closer to ending its status as the only Connecticut municipality requiring gun owners to carry weapons openly.The New Britain Herald an...

South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant says he will work with some national organizations to help people learn how to become registered voters.Gant says six million people...

A new poll shows President Barack Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney in New Jersey.The Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday finds Obama with a 7-percentage-point lead...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Bills is campaigning in Duluth where he will speak to a meeting of the Citizens' Research Council.Bills' campaign says his Thursday speec...

More than two years after it was signed into law, the most contentious part of Arizona's landmark immigration legislation is expected to go into effect following a federal cou...

Republican congressional candidate Thomas Massie has receive an endorsement from the National Right to Life Committee, an anti-abortion group.Massie said in a statement Wednes...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler and Republican challenger Andy Barr are suspending TV advertising on Tuesday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.Chandler said he's doing so...

Republicans seeking to replace retiring New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch are making their appeal to the public in a televised debate.Ovide Lamontagne, Kevin Smith and Robert Tarr...

U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (sis-uh-LEE'-nee) and businessman Anthony Gemma (JEM'-ah) are scheduled to square off in another televised debate as the primary for Rhode Island's 1...

It's a fact of life in Washington that what one party considers a principled stand, the opposition considers pigheadedness. Compromise? That's the other guy's problem.But when...

A member of the Kennedy family making a first bid for elective office is among candidates on the ballot Thursday for Massachusetts voters in primary elections that will determ...

Former high school English teacher Kerry Bentivolio beat four other southeastern Michigan Republicans in a special primary Wednesday and will advance to a special general elec...

Highlights from former President Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:ECONOMY: Clinton said President Barack Obama inherited a much w...

Updated results from last week's primary show a ballot measure concerning property taxes passing by a slim margin.Just 284 votes separated the two sides, with 58,014, or 50.1 ...

Rhode Island's independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee used a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday to blast his former GOP while urging support for Democra...

Democrats launched President Barack Obama on his uncertain bid for re-election as they opened their national convention Tuesday. They looked to help Obama recapture the hearts...

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Tuesday that legislators could choose to expel a fellow member accused of sexually harassing young female staffers, accusations that the e...

The Democratic National Convention is a watershed event for the U.S. gay rights movement, which never before has been embraced so warmly by a major political party.There's a p...

In an impassioned speech that rocked the Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton proclaimed Wednesday night, "I know we're coming back" from th...

Bill Clinton made a passionate call for Americans to return Barack Obama with the White House, telling a television audience of millions that no U.S. president _ not even he _...

A transcript of former President Bill Clinton's remarks Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, as provided by the Democratic Party:___We're here to nominate a ...

Needled by Mitt Romney and other Republicans, Democrats hurriedly rewrote their convention platform Wednesday to add a mention of God and declare Jerusalem the capital of Isra...

Needled by Mitt Romney and other Republicans, Democrats hurriedly rewrote their convention platform Wednesday to add a mention of God and declare Jerusalem the capital of Isra...