Jeremy White

Sharpening the edges of an election-year fight, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ari., denounced as imaginary claims that Republicans are conducting a war on women.

More than a third of the $200 million poured into Super PACs this election cycle has flowed from a mere 10 donors, including seven individuals, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity.

In a conversation suffused with themes and talking points sure to resurface during the election, the commander-in-chief touched on topics as diverse as climate change, the tenor of the rhetoric on Capitol Hill and his fondness for The Daily Show and Homeland.

The U.S. military will conduct a comprehensive review of its training materials in an effort to eliminate any anti-Islamic content, Wired's Danger Room reported.

In the wake of Mitt Romney's romp through five more Republican primary states, Newt Gingrich suggested that he was poised to leave the presidential race.

Fundamentally, the case pivots on the relationship between states and the federal government when it comes to enforcing immigration law.

With a potentially landmark Supreme Court decision on Arizona's tough new immigration law looming, Senate Democrats called a hearing to denounce the law as unconstitutional and discriminatory.

Speaker of the House John Boehner said there is a significant possibility Republicans could lose control of the House in 2012, a surprisingly stark assessment of the party's position two years after it swept into power.

In a stark reminder of how the recession has damaged the employment prospects of young Americans, an analysis found that more than half of recent college graduates are out of work or toiling in unskilled jobs.

Mitt Romney is giving Pennsylvania voters a potential glimpse of the general election by campaigning with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a popular young lawmaker who is widely considered to be on Romney's vice presidential short list.

Former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman sharply criticized his own party on Sunday, decrying Republican rigidity on issues like taxes and science and unfavorably comparing American politics to China.

Balancing the ticket with a Hispanic running mate would do little to alter Romney's weak standing among Latinos, according to a new Public Policy Polling analysis.

President Obama is urging Congress to prevent a planned interest rate increase on federal student loans, weighing in on the latest budget showdown.

World leaders sharpened their condemnations of the bloodshed in Syria on Thursday, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the United Nations to adopt a resolution similar to the one that enabled the NATO operation in Libya.

Top military officials told Congress that they are readying contingency plans for Syria but remain committed to pursuing diplomatic solutions over a military intervention.

In an effort to expand its campaign of covert drone strikes in Yemen, the Central Intelligence Agency has asked for the authority to target suspected terrorists without needing to establish their identity first.

In a move that evokes the grueling partisan battles of last summer as the United States teetered on the brink of default, the White House is warning Republicans of a government shutdown if they reject the debt-reduction deal they made with Democrats.

The Obama campaign launched an appeal to Latino voters on Wednesday, seeking to bolster its advantage with a bloc of voters that could play a pivotal role in several swing states.

Much of the American public believes there is a connection between global climate change and a recent surge in dire weather conditions like droughts, heat waves and flooding.

A Florida law mandating drug testing for welfare applicants failed to save money or identify many drug abusers, data that sharpens concerns about a similar law just enacted in Georgia.

Mitt Romney recently channeled Hillary Clinton, telling a radio host that he was contending with a vast left-wing conspiracy dedicated to undermining him.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, an influential conservative organization that helps craft state-level legislation, announced on Tuesday that it would halt its work on a Public Safety and Elections Task Force that had formulated voter identification and gun laws.

Even as donors and party leaders coalesce behind Mitt Romney, the probable Republican nominee is having a hard time getting voters to like him.

Mitt Romney hopes to raise $800 million in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, raising the prospect of a presidential election that shatters previous fundraising records.

The Republican Party's diminished standing among Latino voters could be a fatal weakness come November, likely presidential candidate Mitt Romney said at a closed-door fundraiser on Sunday.

President Barack Obama faced pressure from Latin American leaders to reconsider America's enforcement-based approach to the war on drugs during a weekend summit Colombia.

With the media and the Republican party effectively anointing Mitt Romney as the 2012 Republican Party presidential candidate, Romney has begun looking ahead -- past the end of the Republican primary, past the general election, all the way to inauguration day.

A federal court on Friday sentenced Tarek Mehanna to 17 years in prison, prompting an impassioned speech from the American Muslim charged with disseminating jihadist propaganda on the Internet.

Mitt Romney has attacked President Barack Obama's record on gun control during a speech to the National Rifle Association, echoing dire warnings issued by NRA president Wayne LaPierre. But the president's record offers scant evidence to support such ominous rhetoric.