Jeremy White

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters that support for legalizing gay marriage will likely become part of the Democratic Party platform now that President Obama has personally endorsed same-sex marriage.

A new poll finds that Americans of different faiths have widely varying opinions of President Obama and Mitt Romney, with white evangelical voters overwhelmingly supporting the likely Republican nominee.

The Department of Justice plans to sue Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for civil rights abuses, including racial profiling against Latinos.

Less than 24 hours after President Barack Obama explicitly declared his support for same-sex marriage, becoming the first sitting American president to do so, his re-election campaign sought to capitalize with an Internet video drawing a contrast between the president and his likely Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

Hours before President Obama made history on Wednesday by becoming the first sitting president to explicitly back same-sex marriage, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney underscored his belief that marriage should be exclusively between a man and a woman.

Democrats are seeing shades of 2010 in the Indiana Senate race, contending that Republican Richard Mourdock's primary win over longtime incumbent senator Dick Lugar gives them an opening.

Republicans looking ahead to what promises to be an historically expensive election cycle promises have spent months calling for an all-out fundraising push to counteract President Obama's fundraising advantage. So far, pro-Republican Super PACs have vastly outraised Super PACs supporting Democratic candidates and causes

President Obama is disappointed that North Carolina passed an amendment to its state constitution banning same-sex marriage, according to a statement from his campaign.

Same-sex marriage advocates are confident that the nation is moving gradually towards marriage equality, but they will need to contend with a majority of states -- North Carolina among them -- that restrict marriage to a man and a woman.

The Republican National Committee spent Tuesday trying to downplay an official's suggestion that the presumptive Republican nominee has yet to make up his mind on immigration.

In another public effort to pressure Congress to act, President Obama plans to release a five-point list of legislative proposals favored by the White House.

The billionaire investor George Soros is planning to pour $2 million to two groups supporting Democratic causes, the latest signal that an anticipated deluge of general election spending is underway.

Senior Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod downplayed Vice President Joe Biden's vocal embrace of gay marriage, saying President Obama's shared the same beliefs.

The number of blacks and Hispanics registered to vote has dropped precipitously since the 2008 election, diminishing two bastions of Democratic support that could prove crucial in what promises to be a tight presidential race.

Mitt Romney has pulled into a statistical tie with President Obama but continues to struggle with female voters, according to a pair of newly released polls.

Climate change could affect national security by spurring conflict over resources and producing more natural disasters, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told a prominent environmental group.

Seeking to reassure a Hispanic constituency that has grown disillusioned with some of his policies, President Obama reiterated his support for the DREAM Act during a Cinco de Mayo address, and blamed Republicans for obstructing immigration reform.

States and cities are poorly equipped to deal with the fallout of cyber attacks, according to a new study released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Mitt Romney assailed the Obama administration for its handling of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's attempted defection, building on his stance that Obama has not pressed China enough on human rights abuses.

A torrent of third-party spending has produced a drastic spike in the amount of negative advertising during the 2012 election cycle, a new study finds.

Newly released correspondence between Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants illuminate the inner workings of Al Qaeda, touching on topics that include media messaging, the need to unify an increasingly fractured organization and fears that jihadists are alienating other Muslims.

How do you make people like Obamacare? A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presentation offers a model.

In a Tuesday speech from Bagram Air Force base, a hub of American operations in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama heralded a turning point in a conflict that has spanned the more than a decade since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Nearly five months after his unexpected surge into contention for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich is set to suspend his campaign and endorse Mitt Romney.

A coalition of interest groups encompassing immigration advocates, organized labor groups and members of Occupy Wall Street gathered in Union Square on Tuesday afternoon for a May Day rally.

Various Brooklyn-based contingents of Occupy Wall Street poured across the Williamsburg Bridge and into the Lower East Side on Tuesday morning, part of a New York City-wide effort to display the movement's vitality in commemoration of May Day.

In a joint press conference with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan, President Obama called America's alliance with Japan a bulwark of regional stability and said China must couple economic growth with human rights reforms.

As the Obama administration uses the approaching one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death to tout the president's decision to launch a strike on the former Al Qaeda leader, Republicans have accused the administration of unnecessarily politicizing the issue.

Fewer undocumented immigrants stopped for traffic violations will face deportation, under newly unveiled changes to a prominent immigration enforcement program.