Ashley Portero

A federal court judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35-year-old finding that would prevent the livestock industry from pumping healthy animals with low-level antibiotics. Exposure to those antibiotics are associated with the development of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

While the full bill won't be in effect until 2014, the health care overhaul has already benefited millions of Americans, according to the Obama administration.

The liberal advocacy group has produced a political ad that features women repeating some of the controversial statements about reproductive health from conservative leaders such as Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh.

The number of Americans who say there is too much of a focus on religious talk and prayer among political figures has increased for the third consecutive year.

The self-defense law, under public scrutiny following the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, allows citizens to use deadly force to protect themselves, without ever having to prove their life was actually in danger.

Despite online assertions of conspiracy theorists, the president's National Defense Resource Preparedness Act has already been the law in one form or another for more than 60 years.

As a candidate who has been criticized for abandoning some of his previously moderate political stances, it wasn't a good idea for Romney's communications director to say Romney will shake up his platform like an Etch A Sketch during the general election.

Fox News -- which devoted more time to gas price coverage than any other network -- blamed President Obama for soaring prices in more than half of its coverage.

Under the House GOP budget plan, the personal income tax rate would be slashed into two brackets: a top rate of 25 percent and lower rate of 10 percent.

In an attempt to counter the bad press the GOP has recently received regarding its stance on women's issues, the Republican National Committee released a new video criticizing President Barack Obama and his allies for perpetrating a war on women.

Opponents say the bill, up for consideration in the state House of Representatives on Wednesday, could make it possible for women who undergo abortions to be unintentially identified if their detailed demographic information is open to the public.

Documents obtained by U.S. Special Forces reveal the terrorist leader believed the U.S. would be drawn into a crisis and be ripe for attack if the presidency transferred to Vice President Joe Biden.

House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan stars in an ominous video previewing the House GOP's 2013 budget.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the Obama administration has failed to live up to goal of being the most transparent administration ever during an executive meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

For the first time in decades, the rate of annual spending on the U.S. government-run health insurance program is expected to decline during the current fiscal year before returning to an upward trajectory in 2022.

Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), plans to introduce legislation that would enact a 5 percent surtax on millionaires in exchange for the passage of a balanced-budget amendment.

President Barack Obama's approval rating is at 49 percent and 50 percent a piece, according to new surveys from Gallup and Reuters/Ipsos.

In the two years since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, groups outside candidates' own campaigns have spent $90 million trying to affect the outcome of November's presidential election, the Center for Responsive Politics says. That's more than twice the $38 million spent by this point in the 2008 campaign.

In a year where the nation's reproductive health debate was iconically symbolized by the U.S. Congress all-male contraception panel, female lawmakers are shooting back with their own proposals.

In the reddest of red states, Mitt Romney is benefiting from conservatives' divided support for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.

During a panel discussion on Al Jazeera English, the former spokesperson referred to a WikiLeaks cable that proves Yemen was cooperating with a U.S. effort to locate and kill al-Awlaki before the Justice Department authorized the al Qaeda operatives assassination.

No, say civil liberties experts, who explain that most of the current bill's restrictions have been on the books for more than 40 years.

The rock band Rush demanded that the conservative commentator with whom they share name stop playing their music following the Sandra Fluke controversy.

Issa, avoiding many of the thread's more substantive questions, chose to focus on intellectual property, his favorite gadgets and his love for Two and a Half Men.

Vermonters overwhelmingly voted in favor of constitutional amendment that would clearly state that corporations do not have the same constitutionally-protected rights as human beings.

Despite efforts to sweep the South and revive his campaign, Georgia was the only state Newt Gingrich managed to win on Super Tuesday. Even so, the ex-House speaker made it clear he isn't going anywhere. Comparing himself to the race-winning tortoise from the famous children's fable, Gingrich said, I just take one step at a time.

Several media outlets called Massachusetts for Romney shortly after polls closed.

Idaho could potentially offer Rep. Ron Paul his first primary win in the 2012 Republican race.

How to follow the results of the Massachusetts Republican primary race on Super Tuesday.