Jeremy White

Seeking to avoid another extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's top earners, Senate Democrats unveiled a plan to let tax breaks expire for all Americans and then implement a separate tax cut for middle-class Americans.

Jul 18, 2012

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel proposed on Tuesday a measure that would prohibit police officers from turning undocumented immigrants over to federal authorities if the immigrants had not committed crimes.

Jul 11, 2012

A Texas voter identification law currently being argued in court could rob minorities of their right to vote, Attorney General Eric Holder told the National Associated for the Advancement of Colored People on Tuesday.

Jul 10, 2012

The latest Washington Post/ABC News Poll finds that Obama and Romney are neck-and-neck, tied at 47 percent among registered voters. Neither man has been able to open a significant gap over his rival.

Jul 10, 2012

Texas Governor Rick Perry has rejected two prominent elements of President Obama's health care overhaul, joining an exodus of Republican-led states that are using a Supreme Court decision upholding the law to opt out of some key features.

Jul 09, 2012

The White House has invited Egypt's recently elected president Mohammad Mursi to visit the U.S. in September, as the latest Obama administration effort to reach out to Egypt's newly empowered Islamists.

Jul 09, 2012

Former Republican presidential candidate and Utah governor Jon Huntsman said he will not attend the party's convention this summer, continuing his critique of Republican orthodoxy.

Jul 06, 2012

The trip will provide the presumptive Republican nominee with his latest opportunity to depict himself as a stronger ally of Israel than President Barack Obama.

Jul 06, 2012

Mitt Romney continued to flex his fundraising muscle in June, combining with the Republican National Committee and the Romney Victory fund to rake in more than $100 million.

Jul 06, 2012

President Obama and Mitt Romney are both campaigning on a promise to revitalize the economy, but a new poll of economists offers a gloomy forecast for the next presidential term no matter who is in the White House.

Jul 05, 2012

The strongly worded piece is the latest episode in Romney's fraught relationship with prominent conservative opinion-shapers who have been skeptical from the start of his ideological squishiness.

Jul 05, 2012

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is not ruling out the possibility of being 2012 Republican Party nominee-designate Mitt Romney's vice president.

Jul 03, 2012

On several of the foreign policy issues facing the United States, Romney has advocated a path that is closer to the Bush administration, which disdained diplomacy in favor of unilateral action. Here is a sampling.

Jul 03, 2012

Mitt Romney will not modify the immigration stance he took during the Republican presidential primary, the presumptive Republican nominee told supporters at a private meeting.

Jul 03, 2012

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Obama's expansive health care overhaul has increased public support for the law, which nonetheless remained largely unpopular.

Jul 02, 2012

Florida has become the third state to reject the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, taking advantage of a Supreme Court ruling dictating that states cannot be forced to expand the health insurance program's reach.

Jul 02, 2012

It now falls to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to send the contempt citation to a grand jury, an unlikely outcome. Here's what might happen instead.

Jun 28, 2012

Declaring that the highest court in the land has now spoken, President Barack Obama vowed to press ahead with implementing the sweeping health care reform law whose constitutionality the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed on Thursday.

Jun 28, 2012

By upholding the individual mandate that is the health care law's linchpin, the Supreme Court has rebuffed Republicans who had hoped to accomplish through the judiciary their goal of dismantling the act.

Jun 28, 2012

If lawmakers cannot forge an agreement, they will need to fund projects on the nation's roads and bridges with a stopgap measure for the tenth straight time.

Jun 27, 2012

A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.

Jun 26, 2012

The Republican chairman of a House panel is accusing President Obama of either obscuring his involvement in the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking program or improperly invoking executive privilege

Jun 26, 2012

The presumptive Republican nominee is caught between conservatives who would like to see immigration laws more strictly enforced and Hispanics who are wary of his position, and as a result he has been exceedingly careful when it comes to immigration.

Jun 26, 2012

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney both used the Supreme Court's Monday ruling on Arizona's controversial immigration law to reinforce their positions on immigration.

Jun 25, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law invalidates several portions of Arizona's tough immigration law but kept in place a controversial provision requiring police officers to check the status of immigrants they believe to be in the country illegally.

Jun 25, 2012

The political world is eagerly awaiting not one but two Supreme Court verdicts that could reshape the political landscape for the Obama administration.

Jun 25, 2012

From immigration to same-sex marriage to education, U.S. President Barack Obama has been able to advance his agenda without Congress. Here's how.

Jun 23, 2012

In a stirring speech to Latino officials reminiscent of his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama heralded a new policy shielding young immigrants from deportation and called on the U.S. Congress to pass immigration reform.

Jun 22, 2012

Mitt Romney offered few details while articulating his immigration policy during a highly anticipated speech to Latino officials on Thursday.

Jun 21, 2012