Ashley Portero

The Bush tax cuts are only one part of the problem.

Even if the Democratic-backed plan to allow the Bush tax cuts expire for the wealthiest Americans advances in the Senate on Wednesday, it has little chance of becoming law if Republicans continue to hold the House.

In the first half of this year, 15 states managed to pass almost 40 laws that restrict women's reproductive rights.

Hill, who has an IQ of 70, will be put to death via lethal injection, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on the execution of mentally disabled prisoners.

A Bush spokesman said the former president is enjoying his time off the political stage and declined his invitation to this year's GOP convention.

The richest 10 percent of Americans hold a staggering 74.5 percent of the nation's wealth, the Congressional Research Service reports.

Only months after Republicans attempted to defund Planned Parenthood, they are trying to do it again. The measure has no hope of passing, but it speaks to the GOP's unending radicalism on reproductive issues

The man who only recently ran U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann's presidential campaign wrote an op-ed essentially saying the Minnesota senator has no idea what she is talking about.

A retired member of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 claims Obama had endangered the military's special operations forces and has taken too much credit for the death of Osama bin Laden.

As he prepares to retire from the U.S. House of Representatives, the progressive icon announced the creation of a new movement-based political action committee.

Warren Hill, who is mentally disabled according to the state's courts, will be executed via lethal injection on Wednesday, unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes.

As the national debate regarding tax fairness continues to rage, a new poll indicates Americans are increasingly pessimistic about their chances for upward mobility.

The Romney campaign, after taking shots at President Obama for allegedly rewarding his wealthy donors, refused to reveal the names of its own bundlers.

Recent reports that indicate Mitt Romney may have misrepresented his tenure at Bain Capital could be a fatal blow to his campaign.

Although Sen. John McCain had indicated he would support the Democratic-backed DISCLOSE Act, he is opposing the bill along with the rest of the Senate GOP.

SEC filings name Romney as chief executive and chairman of Bain in 2002, three years after he says he resigned to run the Winter Olympics.

Under its new proposed rules for the state program, doctors and clinic affiliates would be barred from promoting abortion services to patients.

Mitt Romney was booed at least twice during his Wednesday address at the NAACP conference in Houston, Texas.

The Obama campaign and the media are questioning the GOP presidential candidate's refusal to release more information about his personal finances, following a Vanity Fair investigation into his extensive offshore holdings.

Although Florida's school prayer bill -- technically known as an inspiration message law -- technically went into effect on Sunday, state officials say only one school district has even considered implementing the law.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act would allow members of Congress to keep their government-subsidized health plans, something they will lose if they law is fully implemented as a result of a Republican-sponsored amendment to the bill.

The worst tuberculosis outbreak the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has seen in 20 years is occurring among Jacksonville, Florida's homeless population, the Palm Beach Post reports. But state officials did little to address it.

President Barack Obama on Monday called for ending the so-called Bush tax cuts for the rich while preserving those cuts for Americans earning below $250,000 a year.

The sporting goods chain Academy is suing the private security firm Academi -- the controversial defense contractor formerly known as Blackwater -- for trademark infringement.

Posner said he has become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

Rep. Bill Young of Florida was caught on video telling one of his constituents to get a job after the man asked him if he supported a move to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour.

A judge determined that Zimmerman has attempted to flaunt the system whenever he has had the opportunity.

Broadcasters must now post political advertisement information online for public inspection by Aug. 2 -- but some of them can still skirt the rule.

Walsh complained that his Democratic opponent, who lost both of her legs while serving in Iraq, spends too much time talking about her military record.