Ashley Portero

The 43rd president is the only former commander-in-chief with an approval rating below 50 percent.

In his opinion, a federal judge wrote the FDA's reasons for denying two citizens petitions on the issue were arbitrary and capricious.

The controversial Republican governor will remain in office, television networks projected shortly after poll's closed.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has defeated a recall attempt, the news networks declared an hour after the polls closed.

Following the measure's failure, Sen. Barbara Mikulsi called for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work.

Walker could potentially become the third U.S. governor in history recalled by voters.

The bill will likely die on the Senate floor without Republican support.

Mitt Romney would not offer relief for the 11.5 million U.S. homeowners with underwater mortgages if he were elected president, one of his advisers said Saturday. The assertion contrasts with Romney's own words in January: The idea that somehow this is going to cure itself by itself is probably not real.

Florida state officials will continue their quest to purge purportedly ineligible people from voter-registration rolls, a representative of Secretary of State Ken Detzner said Saturday.

The ad in question, which features a photo of a Catholic priest being shot and killed, asks readers, Will Obama and the Democrats Shoot Catholics and Christians?

According to the judge who sentenced Mubarak, last year's uprisings ended 30 years of intense darkness -- black, black, black, the blackness of a chilly winter night.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate will renew next week their push for equal-pay legislation with the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill with an embattled history that would help close the wage gap between men and women that experts say costs each woman about $434,000 over the course of her career.

Zimmerman, who is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, had his bail revoked after prosecutors accused him of conspiring with his wife to lie about $200,000 they collected from a website toward his legal defense.

The Prenatal Nondiscrimination' bill would have imposed criminal penalties on doctors accused of performing abortions solely due to the fetus's gender.

The Sunlight Foundation's new Politwoops tool allows users to see tweets deleted by U.S. politicians.

The former Louisiana governor, who championed a reform to the nation's campaign finance system, plans to form a nonprofit to tackle those issues.

The new bill would prevent financial executives from obtaining insurance policies that protect their paychecks.

Only two of the 35 wealthiest countries have rates of relative childhood poverty above 20 percent. The United States shares the dubious honor with a former Communist dictatorship

The governor of Wisconsin may get to keep his office on June 5. One expert says any recall -- even those that fail -- can inspire Americans to take action.

The vice president said he harbored thoughts of suicide following the deaths of his wife and daughter in 1972, but rose above them. Folks, it can and will get better, Biden said. There will come a day...when the thought of your son or daughter, or your husband or wife, bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen.

Louisiana residents are set to vote on a constitutional amendment that would roll back the state's ability to regulate the carrying of concealed weapons.

The gag rule, which bans funding for non-profits that provide information about abortion services, has had a shaky history since it was enacted by the Reagan administration in 1984.

Higher temperatures, exacerbated by climate change, is expected to lead to the death of 150,000 Americans by the end of the century.

Forty-five prisoners are abstaining from food in an effort to highlight what they say are inhumane conditions in Virginia's Red Onion State Prison.

A record-low 41 percent of Americans identify themselves as pro-choice when it comes to abortion rights, according to Gallup.

The Republicans in the recently formed Women's Policy Alliance don't actually support legislation intended to aid women.

In addition to sick Americans, more than 80 percent of the general public said health-care costs are exorbitant.

The substantial support Booker received from Bain Capital and the financial industry may help explain the Newark mayor's comments on Sunday's Meet the Press.

Junior members of Congress subscribing to either the far-left or far-right usually spoke with the least complexity, according to the Sunlight Foundation.