Ashley Portero

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to decide the fate of Texas' new redistricting map could delay state primary elections.

Only 20 percent of Americans told Gallup that Congressional incumbents deserve to be re-elected, the lowest percentage in the organization's 19-year history of asking that question.

Occupy Demonstrators chanted You walk on our rights, now walk on us while encouraging business and political leaders to tread over demonstrators lying underneath a red carpet labeled 99 Percent.

Of the 30 companies analyzed in the report, all of them aside from FedEx didn't pay any federal income taxes from 2008 to 2010.

In criticism of a policy advocated by Gov. Rick Scott that requires state welfare recipients to submit to drug testing in order to receive benefits, Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi asked Scott to pee in a cup to prove to Florida taxpayers that you are not on drugs.

On Thursday, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said Occupy Boston protesters have until midnight to pack up and abandon their encampment or police may be forced to take appropriation action.

Although FDA Commissioner had approved an application to make Plan B One-Step emergency contraception available over-the-counter to women of all ages, the agency's decision was blocked by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Demonstrators from across the nation descended on Capitol Hill on Monday as part of a four-day effort to meet with congressional leaders to highlight the plight of U.S. unemployment.

Newt Gingrich has been attacked by multiple pro-gun groups for supposedly supporting gun control legislation.

On Tuesday the Obama administration said it will use foreign aid to promote and protect LGBT rights around the world.

A majority of Americans say members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives should receive salary cuts, have their pensions discontinued and be required to spend more time on Capitol Hill.

President Barack Obama and three 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls are all contenders for the award.

Police stormed the Occupy Boston camp on Thursday night to remove a new kitchen sink only hours after a judge extended a restraining order preventing police from evicting the protesters or seizing their possessions.

Scott Olsen, the U.S. Marine Corps veteran who made national headlines in October after he received a brutal head injury during a violent clash between police and Occupy Oakland protesters, spoke to media outlets about the injury for the first time this week.

The American Family Association has compiled a naughty or nice list of national corporations based on how often they use the word Christmas in holiday advertising.

A new ad from the Ron Paul campaign points out Gingrich's plentiful inconsistencies.

One of Newt Gingrich's former Republican colleagues called the current GOP presidential frontrunner an evil person on Tuesday. Do his previous policy positions and statements support that characterization?

Fulton County sheriff's deputies and local movers refused to follow orders to evict a 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter from their longtime home.

The city of Boston filed a pleading arguing Occupy Boston protesters do not have the right to live on public property the morning after demonstrators in Los Angeles and Philadelphia were evicted from their camps.

Molinari, who has reportedly had a longstanding feud with Republican presidential hopeful New Gingrich, says he might do something when Gingrich holds a town hall meeting in Staten Island this weekend.

The highly contested provision, part of the National Defense Authorization Spending bill Act, was upheld after the Senate rejected an amendment on Tuesday that would have removed the detainee provision.

Dr. Donald Berwick, who was praised for his efforts to reform health care by Republicans such as Newt Gingrich long before he was approached by the Obama administration, was attacked for allegedly favoring health care rationing after being nominated for CMS chief by President Obama in 2010.

Texas officials have asked the U.S. Supreme court to block an interim restricting plan imposed by a federal court, which rejected a plan by the state legislature after critics argued it did not increase opportunities for minority representation.

A small business owner in Georgia has been overwhelmed with media attention after a picture of a company truck with a sign stating New company policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone went viral.

President Obama is expected to face a tough reelection campaign in 2012, but a new poll found there is one Republican he would easily beat: former President George W. Bush.

Secondary pharmaceutical distributors say a major report that accused them of price gouging -- and as a result, worsening the current U.S. drug shortage -- used exaggerated figures to imply so-called 'gray market' vendors charge exorbitant prices for their products.

Mitt Romney's first television ad in New Hampshire misquotes President Obama to say, If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.

A U.S. official emphasized that diplomatic relations between the U.S. and North Korea will not resume until the Hermit Kingdom agrees to recommit to nuclear disarmament as specified by the 2005 Six-Party-Talks.

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., has introduced the first proposal directly inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.