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Ron Paul raised nearly a quarter million dollars just two days into his campaign to end the TSA, launched shortly after his son made headlines for refusing a security pat-down.

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.

Jessica Buchanan, a 32-year-old American aid worker, and her Danish colleague Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, were rescued Wednesday, by Navy's Seal Team 6, a U.S special forces team, after pirates held them hostage for months near the Somali town of Adado.

A lawsuit was filed in California against comedian Jay Leno, over a Mitt Romney joke, which showed a picture of the religion's holy Golden Temple of Amritsar as the presidential candidate summer home. The plaintiff, Indian-American Randeep Dhillon, called it a racist slur against Sikhs.

So what happened to John Kerry's face? The Massachusetts Senator with two black eyes and a broken nose caused a stir. Now the real story is revealed! It wasn't a brawl, or a domestic dispute.

Barr also discussed her intentions to run for office.

Even before U.S. President Barack Obama made his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released a pre-buttal to his speech, warning the President would use the platform to divide the nation with a biased speech targeting the general elections. As it turned out, Obama did use the platform to deliver a speech aimed at November's general elections and although he never singled out or named his Republican opponents, he did take several jabs at M...

Those on more than $1m a year would pay at least 30% and their tax deductions would be eliminated under Obama's plan.

President Barack Obama discussed rebuilding the shaky economy and laid out his pitch for a second term during his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night.

We'll be watching Twitter for the best real-time commentary and publishing those comments here.

“The most profitable corporations in the world do not need subsidies from the American people, Sanders said Tuesday at a Capitol Hill rally.

Why is Warren Buffet's secretary an honored guest at the 2012 State Union?

It turns out that Thomas went to the same high school -- though decades later -- as leftist filmmaker Michael Moore, Davison High in a suburb of Flint, Mich.

The setting was Puritan Boston in 1642. Hester Prynne emerged from prison rejected, condemned, and spurned. Her crime? Conceiving a child from an adulterous affair. Her punishment? Wearing a scarlet letter A on her chest and bearing the wrath of her town along with it.

Kerry, 68, had two black eyes, a broken nose and visible bruises on his face.

The Boston Bruins were invited to the White House on Monday to celebrate their 2011 Stanley Cup win. One player however, refused to go. Goaltender Tim Thomas did not attend the event.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney paid $3 million in federal taxes on 2010 income of $21.7 million in 2010. That means his effective income tax rate was 13.9 percent -- lower than what the vast majority of wealthy Americans pay.

She added that the U.S. had absolute respect for all Indians, including Sikhs.

The NHL champions visited the White House this week to meet the president.

The White House is defending the Transportation Security Administration after a standoff with Sen. Rand Paul Monday morning and comments made by his father, presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul.

Hundreds of protesters are expected to swarm Capitol Hill on Tuesday dressed as referees in order to blow the whistle on what they claim is a pattern of fossil-fuel funded corruption in Congress.