GEORGE W. BUSH

Though Amour was the festival's biggest success story, it wasn't the only standout.

Three months after Rush Limbaugh characterized a Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke as a ?slut? and a ?prostitute,? a liberal-backed boycott of the right-winger?s radio show has been effective.

The gag rule, which bans funding for non-profits that provide information about abortion services, has had a shaky history since it was enacted by the Reagan administration in 1984.

As the 1965 Voting Rights Act comes under fire from Republican lawmakers and conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Holder explains why it's still needed to fight inequality at the polls.

Tanya Dixon-Neely, the North Carolina high school teacher who became an infamous YouTube sensation after she yelled at student Hunter Rogers over his critical questioning of President Barack Obama, has been suspended with pay over her shocking classroom antics.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has confirmed that Ambassador Ryan Crocker will resign this summer following high-level multilateral talks over bringing the Afghanistan War to an end at the NATO Summit in Chicago.

Florida election supervisors are reacting warily to a statewide effort to cleanse the rolls of non-citizens, warning that inaccurate or obsolete data could lead them to disenfranchise eligible voters.

U.S. will begin to issue licenses to allow investments in the country, but maintain the arms embargo.

Taylor, who was convicted in April of supporting rebels during Sierra Leone's bloody civil war, was speaking before the court for the last time before sentencing later this month.

A powerful conservative advocacy organization is about to unleash a $25 million advertising assault in ten different states, seeking to highlight inconsistencies in President Obama's record.

The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests.

Former U.S. president George W. Bush told ABC News Tuesday that he supports White House hopeful Mitt Romney, the Republican party's presumptive nominee for president.

From Usher debuting his new songs to Will Ferrell as the guest host reprising his role as George Bush, Saturday Night Live (SNL) on May 12 was memorable, namely for the Justin Bieber, Michael Bolton and Natalie Portman cameo in the 100th Digital Short with Andy Samberg. Here is a recap of some of the best sketches from the Saturday, May 12 episode along with videos.

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?

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Friday urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to immediately designate the Haqqani network operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a foreign terrorist organization.

A new poll finds that Americans of different faiths have widely varying opinions of President Obama and Mitt Romney, with white evangelical voters overwhelmingly supporting the likely Republican nominee.

Democrats are seeing shades of 2010 in the Indiana Senate race, contending that Republican Richard Mourdock's primary win over longtime incumbent senator Dick Lugar gives them an opening.

The billionaire investor George Soros is planning to pour $2 million to two groups supporting Democratic causes, the latest signal that an anticipated deluge of general election spending is underway.

Jane McGarry, a mainstay at KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth where she is a news anchor, was arrested Sunday on an intoxicated driving charge.

Sarkozy is convinced that the polls are wrong and he can win a second term.

Seeking to reassure a Hispanic constituency that has grown disillusioned with some of his policies, President Obama reiterated his support for the DREAM Act during a Cinco de Mayo address, and blamed Republicans for obstructing immigration reform.