Dan Rivoli

Four Blackwater Worldwide guards asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lower court ruling that dismissed their indictment due to tainted evidence.

Arizona had claimed that the U.S. abdicated its responsibility in enforcing immigration laws.

Princeton University Prof. Cornel West was arrested Friday, the second time this week, at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Harlem protesting outside a police precinct against the NYPD's stop and frisk policy.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Friday Republican senators should listen to their Republican constituents and pass the jobs plan.

After Moammar Gadhafi of Libya became the latest victim of the Arab Spring uprising, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Iran's leaders may be next.

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain said that low-income Americans could avoid the personal income tax portion of his 9-9-9 plan.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney defended Vice President Joe Biden's remarks about rising rates of murders and rapes as police departments shrink due to budget cuts.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Thursday picked a Joseph Lhota, an executive at Madison Square Garden and a former top aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to run one of the biggest transportation agencies in the world.

The Republican National Committee criticized Democrats for ignoring anti-Semitic remarks caught on tape at Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said banks' reasoning for imposing consumer debit card fees was "disingenuous."

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wants Senate leaders to reject a bill that would allow concealed gun permits to be recognized across state lines.

Nevada has the highest foreclosure rate in the country, but the Republican presidential contenders provided few concrete solutions to the crisis while debating in Las Vegas.

Supporters of businessman Herman Cain launched a so-called super PAC that will allow corporations to donate unlimited sums of money that can be used to boost a candidate or attack a rival.

The GOP presidential hopefuls -- except for former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman -- came together yet again to debate in Nevada Tuesday. Former Massachusetts Gov. Romney deftly neutralized the attacks, even using them to make presidential-sounding comments aimed at general election voters.

For the first time since 2009, Social Security benefits will get a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, that could be as much as a 3.5 percent increase.

The U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide if victims and their families can sue corporations or political organizations in America for human rights abuses in other countries.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's legal adviser and failed U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork says he still believes that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment should not apply to women.

Thieves took off with a van containing sound gear -- along with some important presidential equipment, as well.

Since President Barack Obama signed the U.S. Affordable Care Act in 2010, only a dozen states have created the legal authority for a health insurance exchange to comply with the law, while five have passed legislation to produce feasibility studies.

The U.S. Supreme Court justices will decide the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, which criminalizes false public comments about receiving military awards.

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., wants Attorney General Eric Holder to probe banks and trade groups for potentially illegal collusion over new consumer debit card fees.

Herman Cain, a former pizza chain CEO, touted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a model for his own appointees.

Before his arrest at an Occupy Wall Street-style protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Cornel West said Martin Luther King Jr. would be protesting alongside the group.

President Barack Obama invoked Dr. Martin Luther King in voicing support for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, who are organizing protests throughout the U.S., adding that protesters do not need to demonize financial industry employees.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., will take comments from her social media circle to compose a floor speech to be delivered during the week of Oct. 24.

A U.S. appeals court panel placed a temporary injunction on enforcing part of the law requiring suspected illegal immigrants to carry papers and a part that makes schools collect the immigration status of new students and their parents.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was Mitt Romney's main critic during GOP presidential debates.

In 2010, births in the U.S. dropped to 4 million, from 4.3 million in 2007.

Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline engaged in a pattern of misconduct while investigating abortion providers, a report said.