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A Republican lawmaker completely lost it on the Illinois House floor in Springfield Tuesday, tossing papers into the air and screaming as he explained why he opposed plan to overhaul the state pension system.

The Republican presidential candidate has finally sealed the deal by clinching the 1,144 delegates required to win his party's nomination, after Tuesday's Texas primary.

We all make mistakes. But if you're running for President of the United States, one thing you may want to make sure you get right during your multi-million-dollar campaign is that your staff can handle the spelling of America.

Maybe it's been a slow news day, maybe there's been a lull in Web traffic because people are still returning from their Memorial Day vacations. But there is no good excuse for this very misguided article published by Business Insider Chief Editor Henry Blodget.

The Tennessee lawyer who took 42 percent of the vote away from President Barack Obama in the Arkansas Democratic primary is back, hoping to pick up momentum in Texas on Tuesday.

It's safe to say the two 2012 contenders wouldn't have sat at the same lunch table.

In a fast-paced, wide-ranging and, at times, hilariously odd interview with Chris Matthews on Hardball Thursday night, former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich forgave Mitt Romney for any harsh words traded on the campaign trail.

When Romney agreed to sit with Time magazine's Mark Halperin for an interview, it was truly a rare moment. Unfortunately, Romney didn't do much more than respond to a series of softball questions with the same talking points he's made in the past.

The Congressional Budget Office said earlier this year in a report that the unemployment rate is already on its way down and will gradually decline to around 7 percent by the end of 2015, before dropping to near 5.5 percent by the end of 2017.

Obama told the graduating class of 2012 that a different world includes less deployments, stronger alliances and a greater role in global affairs where the United States of America is more respected and safer than they ever were before -- implying a stark contrast between the attitudes of George W. Bush's administration.

Are presidential candidates running out of catchphrases?

Mitt Romney has gained a 6-point lead ahead of President Barack Obama in the critical battleground state of Florida -- and an 8-point lead if U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is on the Republican candidate's ticket, according to a new poll.

About four in 10 voters choose not to vote for the president in the Democratic primary.

Wait 'till the face come around and whack her!

The Karl Rove-backed Super PAC Crossroads GPS is releasing a basketball-themed anti-Obama attack ad to begin airing in swing states on Wednesday.

As Republicans take the words of Newark Mayor Cory Booker and other Democrats to slam Obama's attack on Mitt Romney's private-equity roots, Democrats would like to remind the public that prominent GOP politicians have gone after Bain Capital, too.

President Barack Obama returned to Joplin, Missouri one year after it was ravaged by a deadly tornado, emphasizing the importance of community in the face of adversity at the city's high school commencement Monday evening.

At a Monday NATO news conference, President Barack Obama addressed the debate over Mitt Romney's experience at Bain Capital, noting that Newark Mayor Cory Booker's comments on Obama's anti-Bain advertisement were not a distraction but what this campaign is going to be about.

Mitt Romney's latest anti-Obama attack ads takes the words of some of the president's supporters and uses them against him.

Mitt Romney surrogate and real estate mogul Donald Trump disagrees with the presumed Republican nominee on using Rev. Jeremiah Wright in attack ads against President Obama.

The labor organizer who became a major voice in the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy's successful 1994 U.S. Senate campaign against Mitt Romney resurfaced in another Obama re-election ad that hits Romney on his record at Bain Capital.

Obama surrogate and Newark mayor Cory Booker quickly backtracked his Meet the Press comments after calling an Obama campaign ad that attacks Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital nauseating -- but, this being Cory Booker, the oft-occurring political tango unfolded on social media.

No, they weren't watching the stock market or the news...

Events hosted by George Clooney and Ricky Martin were just the beginning of a summer packed with events featuring A-list movie stars and musicians ? including Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Sarah Jessica Parker and P!nk.

The Romney campaign unleashed its first general election ad on Friday morning, in which the presumed Republican nominee promises to make changes to Obama's policies during his first day in office

Trayvon Martin was shot at close range and had the drug THC in his system, according to an autopsy report released by lawyers handling the case of his death.

Mitt Romney's campaign has nearly matched President Obama's skyrocketing fund-raising efforts by bringing in over $40 million in April, largely helped by that fact that Republicans are coalescing around the presumed Republican presidential nominee.

Not every one of the jokes prepared for the White House Correspondent's dinner was used -- and an especially controversial one got cut to avoid offending two prominent Republicans

As the city invests in tech, Councilwoman Leticia James wishes that Mayor Bloomberg would to more to make sure Brooklyn doesn't get left out