Dan Rivoli

Voters in a handful of states will weigh-in on a slew of ballot measures that are the most exciting part of a sleepy Election Day this year.

President Barack Obama's approval rating increased to 49 percent, up from 47 percent, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says that the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling was a correct decision.

The Republicans also offered their own infrastructure bill, which met a similar fate as President Barack Obama's.

A second piece of President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan is headed for defeat in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.

Viktor Bout was busted in a sting operation attempting to sell weapons to a Colombian rebel group, FARC.

A New Hampshire man convicted of breaking into a car argued that unreliable eyewitness evidence should have been blocked from his trial, even without police interference.

The U.S. Department of Justice has been filing lawsuits against states that have passed anti-immigration laws.

The justices pressed a lawyer for inmate Richard Lee Pollard about why his case was filed in federal court instead of state court.

Marijuana reform advocate NORML blasted the administration's response to a petition requesting that pot be regulated like alcohol.

The Supreme Court scolded a lower federal appeals court for vacating a jury verdict against a woman convicted of violently shaking her grandson to death.

Conservatives are likening the allegations against Herman Cain to the treatment U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received during his 1991 confirmation hearings.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 8 will hear a case on law enforcement's warrantless use of GPS technology. Is the use of GPS technology simply a more-efficient process or an illegal search?

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said that case law to determine religious displays in public is in shambles.

Photos of Lady Liberty throughout her 125-year history.

Joseph Sellers, an attorney representing the female Wal-Mart employees, said as many as 15 class actions will be filed targeting the retail giant's regional areas.

The Massachusetts Republican Party has latched on to comments from Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law professor who is challenging U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, for supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement seeking economic and fiscal reform.

Oliver Stone's film to be based on Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Power Broker.

Current and former service members in same-sex marriages argue the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it intrudes on states' authority over marriage laws.

Businessman Herman Cain is statistically tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among Republican voters in Iowa and South Carolina.

U.S. Supreme Court justices have leeway to choose which legal challenge to the health care reform law to take up. They could also refuse to take the case at all.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Wednesday voiced support for Gov. John Kasich's anti-union law after refusing to take a stand on the issue a day before while visiting Ohio.

Between 1979 and 2007, the richest 1 percent of Americans saw inflation-adjusted, after-tax income surge 275 percent, while low and middle-income Americans saw their income grow by only a fraction.

A lawyer for a group of protesters arrested in 2008 say a law prohibiting protests on U.S. Supreme Court grounds is too broad and violates the First Amendment.

Republican presidential nomination candidate Herman Cain proudly touts his unconventional campaign, which produced an ad featuring his chief of staff on a smoke break. But Cain's campaign is far from the only campaign to release an ad that left politicos scratching their heads.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry criticized former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for failing to outright support Ohio's anti-union collective bargaining law.

Labor unions poised to get much-needed victory after a year of Republican-pushed laws to curtail collective bargaining.

Albany County District Attorney David Soares says that arresting protesters would spark bigger demonstrations.

Political groups and lawmakers from both parties are making cases that U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas should recuse themselves from deciding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care reform law.