Dan Rivoli

Officials Thursday detailed a nationwide settlement with five large banks over foreclosure practices. Negotiators defended the deal as a way to give immediate relief to homeowners and victims of foreclosure abuses.

A look inside the dissenting opinion in the Ninth Circuit's Prop 8 ruling.

Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Michigan is a great place for us to plant our flag in the next batch of Republican primary contests.

A look at what the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision overturning California's Proposition 8 means for same-sex marriage.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday overturned Prop 8, the ballot measure that ended same-sex marriage in California five months after the state's Supreme Court allowed gays and lesbians to marry.

Karen Handel, vice president of public policy at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, resigned a week after the breast cancer foundation got heat for cutting funding to Planned Parenthood.

House Republicans Monday said a positive January jobs reporting showing 243,000 new jobs and a dip in the unemployment rate belied the number of discouraged job seekers who leave the workforce and underemployed Americans with college degrees.

Karl Rove said Chrysler's Halftime in America ad was pay back to President Barack Obama for the 2009 auto bailout.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday will release its long-awaited decision on Prop 8, California's ballot measure ending same-sex marriage in the state.

The U.S. Senate candidate's campaign spot aired in Michigan during the Super Bowl is under attack, due to its racially-charged and offensive content.

The Green Party has been a home for celebrities and colorful characters who need a political platform that neither major parties want to provide.

The lawsuit accuses banks of creating a registry service that fails to accurately track mortgage ownership and lacks any legal authority to initiate foreclosures.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Egypt to mark the anniversary of the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.

Sen. Tom Coburn, who was one of two votes against an insider trading law aimed at lawmakers, said the real inside trading that sours Americans on Congress is the political horse trading on legislation.

Matthew Strawn was criticized for declaring Mitt Romney the winner of the Iowa caucus on Jan. 3 by eight votes. A final tally, however, showed Rick Santorum winning the caucus with a 34-vote lead over the former Massachusetts governor.

Newt Gingrich is the latest Republican politician to be asked by a musician to stop using their songs at campaign events.

A new poll released Monday said more GOP voters think the Republican presidential contenders are only fair or poor.

Why the White House's attempts to hear from Americans is a magnet for marijuana legalization advocates.

Presidents have been on the receiving end of tough criticism from other elected officials in private. But is it breaching decorum to point a finger?

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Friday announced the formation of a task force focused on probing residential mortgage-backed securities following President Barack Obama's call for a unit to probe the finance industry's conduct leading up to the financial crisis.

Hillary Clinton again dismisses a swap with Vice President Joe Biden on the 2012 ticket.

A poll released Thursday showed 49 percent of Republicans believe Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama have different views on health care policy, despite the similarities between their health insurance reform laws.

Judges said they relied on attorneys, court staff and other jurors to catch improper social media use in the jury box.

A January poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation said more Americans believe the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the Affordable Care Act's insurance mandate, but will base their decisions on ideology, instead of legal analysis.

Jared Lee Loughner, whose shooting rampage left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in life-threatening condition, is fighting against forced medication.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been a leading critic of a deal with the nation's largest mortgage servicers over improper foreclosure practices.

After the U.S. Department of Justice rejected South Carolina's voter ID law, Texas is anticipating a similar fate.

A slight majority of Americans -- 52 percent -- say they favor raising tax rates on capital gains to match the rate for wage income, according to new poll by The New York Times and CBS.

Herman Cain, a former pizza restaurant mogul and one-time GOP primary frontrunner will deliver the Tea Party response to Tuesday's State of the Union address.