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As the leader of JPMorgan Chase & Co's hedging unit quit after trading losses that could end up exceeding $3 billion, the board seemed to be rallying behind CEO Jamie Dimon before the huge bank's annual shareholder meeting Tuesday.

In a bipartisan surge of opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act, an amendment aims to ensure that suspected terrorists captured on U.S. soil can not be detained indefinitely without trial.

For months in Great Neck, the leafy Nassau County, N.Y., suburb rocked last year by the revelation of cheating on SAT exams in its high schools masterminded by Samuel Eshaghoff whose mother was library president, there had been rumors of marital troubles between Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel and her husband Mark.

Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign will continue to pursue its national delegate strategy despite the candidate's abrupt announcement Monday that he is suspending active campaign activities.

President Barack Obama gave inspiring words of advice to Barnard graduates heading for the workforce in tough times, championing women's rights, and at the very end of his speech, alluding to his support of legalizing same-sex marriage.

JPMorgan's large trading losses affirm the need for Wall Street oversight, the White House said on Monday, declining to comment on the specifics of the case while the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigates it.

Out of 289 Republicans in congress, only one -- U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) -- shares the same views as Obama on gay marriage. She may be the bravest Republican in congress.

With Democrats defending nearly twice as many Senate seats as Republicans in 2012, the GOP has an excellent chance of taking the upper chamber and holding majorities in both houses of Congress.

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan will be called before a Senate committee on May 23 to talk about the investigation into the prostitution scandal in Colombia that rocked the agency last month.

Like last week's controversial Time magazine breastfeeding cover, Newsweek's issue this week is sure to attract some attention.

President Barack Obama will be delivering a commencement speech at Barnard College at 1:10 pm. ET on Monday.

Steve Rattner, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, called an anti-Mitt Romney ad released by the Obama campaign Monday morning unfair for painting the presumed Republican nominee as a greedy business mogul who destroys jobs.

The GOP touts itself as the party of job creation. But the party of which president - Democratic or Republican - creates more jobs per year, on average?

Speaking to the press and public in Iowa on Friday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), spoke out against President Barack Obama, who announced on Thursday that he believes same sex couples should be able to get married.

Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development set for Rio de Janeiro next month, has been hailed as a major opportunity for world leaders to address climate change, but its importance threatens to be diminished as key players opt out.

Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy is yet another Hollywood star to host a fundraiser for U.S. President Barack Obama in the wake of the public support he expressed for same-sex marriage on Wednesday.

The now-familiar call for Washington to lower energy costs by increasing domestic production of oil may not be the most effective policy, according to this month's Congressional Budget Office report on the nation's energy security.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the filibuster has been abused, abused, abused after a bipartisan bill to reauthorize a federal export financing bank was stalled Thursday.

George Clooney hosted a $40,000-a-plate fundraiser for President Barack Obama at his Los Angeles home Thursday, May 10. The event, which reportedly took place in a decked out tent at Clooney's L.A. mansion, included 150 of George's closest and richest friends, not to mention a Clooney roast by the Commander in Chief himself.

Edward Klein's unauthorized biography contains several alleged, bombshell revelations.

Vice President Joe Biden reportedly apologized to President Barack Obama on Wednesday for appearing to pressure him to accelerate his endorsement of same-sex marriage after speaking out on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday.