Ashley Portero

“We did not come to this decision lightly. We do not prosecute by public pressure or by petition, Florida prosecutor Angela Corey said of the case against George Zimmerman, who was jailed without bond pending a court hearing.

A Florida special prosecutor is expected to announce the charges against neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman on Wednesday afternoon.

Soon Tennessee classrooms will be able to debate the merits of creationism and evolution side-by-side, after Gov. Bill Haslam on Tuesday refused to sign a controversial proposal dubbed the Monkey Bill, but allowed it to become law anyway.

The federal income tax for 30 companies was negative during the four-year period, even though they brought in a combined $205 billion in gross profit.

The Republican candidate made the announcement during a campaign event on Tuesday afternoon.

Measures that regulate women's access to abortion services and stress abstinence-only sex education were among the 51 bills the Wisconsin governor, who faces a recall election on June 5, signed just ahead of the holiday weekend.

The White House has been silent ahead of the 2012 election on an executive order proposed last year that would require federal contractors to publicly disclose their political contributions.

A new bill that requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals could force the state's only abortion clinic to close its doors.

The embattled Wisconsin governor, who faces a recall election on June 5th, discussed his faith and how his potential ousting could affect the Tea Party movement.

The police officers who reportedly opened fire on unarmed civilians, and then participated in a coverup of the shootings, face prison sentences ranging between 6 and 65 years.

College officials have launched an investigation into the pepper-spraying of at least 30 students who interrupted a Board of Trustee's meeting over a contentious plan to offer pricier summer courses.

The top donor to the pro-Santorum Red, White and Blue super PAC said he will continue to support Santorum's presidential campaign through at least Pennsylvania.

Romney was the clear winner of Tuesday's GOP primary races in Maryland and Washington, D.C., where he was overwhelmingly declared the winner only minutes after polls closed.

Mitt Romney is expected to win the Republican primary races in Maryland and Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

The tobacco industry will be required to report the quantifies of harmful chemicals found in tobacco products or smoke for the first time this year.

A new ad produced by Priorities USA Action alleges Romney had pledged to protect Big Oil's record profits and massive tax subsidies.

A major donor to President Barack Obama's re-election effort is accused of impersonating a bank official to defraud a businessman of more than $650,000.

The unions argued that the law violated the U.S. Constitution by taking away workers' rights to bargain and organize, and discriminated against certain public-sector employees while exempting others, such as firefighters and police officers.

Plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the heavily disputed 2012 National Defense Authorization Act appeared to make some progress during a daylong hearing in a federal court in New York. Even the judge questioned the government's inability to define terms such as associated forces.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum may have demonstrated some homophobic tendencies on Wednesday when he chastised a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball during a campaign event in Wisconsin.

A class action lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction against the military detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act will be heard in a New York federal court.

Conservative religious leaders rail against socialized medicine as others argue providing health care to all Americans is a faithful action.

On Wednesday, most of the justices seemed skeptical of the argument that the Affordable Care Act couldn't survive without its insurance-purchase mandate. Conservatives, however, leaned toward invalidating the entire law.

At issue in Wednesday's morning session was whether the Affordable Care Act should be scrapped altogether if the court determines that the law's requirement that Americans get medical insurance violates the Constitution.

Confidential documents reveal the nation's leading anti-gay marriage group discussed framing President Obama as a social radical and making vocal support for traditional marriage a requirement to gaining the Republican presidential nomination.

Skepticism seemed to inform numerous pointed comments from three of the court's four staunch conservatives as the justices spent a second day hearing a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

The 2013 budget, penned by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, would institute the Buffet Rule, while suspending emergency war funding and Bush-era tax cuts.

The justices Monday heard debate as to whether Americans can challenge the Affordable Care Act's insurance-purchase requirement even though that part of the law isn't scheduled to take effect until 2014.

The Democratic senator wrote that the U.S. Justice Department, which is already investigating the death of Florida teenager Trayon Martin, has an obligation to investigate the controversial self-defense law that critics say was a factor in Martin's death.