Dan Rivoli

Shepard Fairey, who created the iconic Hope poster during President Barack Obama's 2008 primary campaign, pled guilty to creating false documents and deleting evidence in his legal fight with The Associated Press.

President Barack Obama may have tweaked a policy that will let religiously-affiliated employers avoid offering insurance plans that cover birth control, but seven Republican state attorneys general are fighting the proposed rule on First Amendment grounds.

Comedian Bill Maher cut a $1 million check to Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama super PAC.

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York invited Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to testify in Washington on her state's tough immigration law, SB1070.

Sen. Scott Brown and his likely Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren released radio ads Thursday on their position about insurance plans that cover contraception.

Despite the improving economy, half of the respondents in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll that President Barack Obama's first term has been a failure.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, a President George W. Bush appointee, issued the second ruling to declare the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Phil Spector's appeal of his 2009 second-degree murder conviction for the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.

A commuter train in Buenos Aires crashed during Wednesday morning's rush into barriers of the central Once station, killing at least 49 people and injuring hundreds of others.

A Watergate-era law banning U.S.-based companies from bribing public officials has seen new life in the Obama administration, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says corporations need guidance.

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday took a case that aims to end race as a factor in college admissions.

Supporters of Prop 8, a same-sex marriage ban a federal appeals court said was unconstitutional, will hold off on taking its case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

After two deadlocked juries and three acquittals, the Department of Justice wants to drop a foreign bribery case launched after a Las Vegas sting operation netted 22 businessmen.

A survey from Public Policy Polling shows Mitt Romney closing in on Rick Santorum ahead of the Feb. 28 Michigan primary.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Steven Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that a case challenging a century-old Montana law prohibiting corporate political spending could lead to a new challenge to the court's controversial Citizens United ruling of 2010.

Standing by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Everett, Wash., on Friday, President Barack Obama called on Congress to reshape the corporate tax code to benefit companies that keep jobs in the United States, giving a boost to the domestic manufacturing sector and exports.

CNN was forced to cancel a March 1 pre-Super Tuesday debate when Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum declined to participate.

Economists have factored the payroll tax cut extension into forecasts that the U.S. economy will grow 2.5 percent in 2012.

The Occupy movement has moved beyond pickets and protests with a group called Occupy the SEC, which has submitted a 325-page letter on the proposed Volcker Rule.

House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday a tentative deal on a payroll tax cut extension has been reached.

U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra's popularity has taken a big hit since releasing an ad for the Super Bowl that featured an Asian woman speaking in broken English and exhibiting other Chinese stereotypes.

President Barack Obama urged Americans to pressure their lawmakers in Washington to pass a payroll tax cut extension.

A new national CBS/New York Times poll shows Rick Santorum with a slight lead over Mitt Romney among Republican primary voters.

House Republicans said Senate Democrats' refusal to accept spending cuts as a way to pay for a payroll tax cut extension has forced them to come up with a fallback plan to continue the popular proposal until after Election Day 2012.

Rick Santorum may want to discuss economic policy, but the candidate is spending his time talking about social issues as his campaign gets a new surge of support.

Bipartisan group of senators have introduced a resolution asking the Obama administration to rev up its work with the international community to address the crisis in Syria.

The compromise aims to tamp down ire among Catholic officials that the Affordable Care Act rule on contraception coverage would force religiously-affiliated organizations to violate church teaching.

The Office of Congressional Ethics is looking into whether Rep. Spencer Bachus, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, violated insider trading laws and used his public office for private gain.

The mandate under the Affordable Care Act requires Catholic-affiliated institutions like hospitals and colleges to offer health care plans that cover contraception at no cost.