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Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., will face a prolonged recovery process after suffering from a stroke on Saturday, but his office will continue to function in an official capacity. His bigger duties, however, will be taken off the table.

Mitt Romney was desperate for a strong debate performance in Florida's Republican debate Monday night to restore momentum for his campaign, and delivered repeated sharp attacks on rising rival Newt Gingrich.

President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address 2012 on Tuesday night and a live stream is available online. The State of the Union Address will be delivered on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 9 p.m. EST in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. The theme is, America Built to Last.

The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac told lawmakers that forcing the two mortgage firms to write down loan principal would require more than $100 billion in fresh taxpayer funds.

U.S. intelligence agencies have unique capabilities that can help protect American companies from cyber espionage and attack, but it will probably take a crisis to change laws to allow that type of cooperation, a former spy chief said on Monday.

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.

Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would release this week the tax returns demanded by rivals as he bids to regain the upper hand in the volatile Republican presidential race.

Humbled by a stunning loss in South Carolina, Mitt Romney said on Sunday he would release this week the tax returns demanded by rivals in his bid to regain the upper hand in the volatile Republican presidential race.

After global protests on Wednesday which saw darkened Websites like Wikipedia and BoingBoing and a “virtual” strike by Google, on Friday SOPA, a creature of the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the Senate, were essentially smothered.

After a bruising clash in South Carolina, Republican presidential front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich will take their battle to a bigger stage when the campaign moves to Florida on Sunday. The Palmetto State's primary-election results indicate their fight may last quite a few more rounds.

Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina GOP Presidential primary, beating rival Mitt Romney, according to reports.

The winner of South Carolina's Republican presidential primary has gone on to secure the party's nomination in every election since 1980. Mitt Romney must overcome Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina primary on Saturday to retain his aura of inevitability as the GOP's eventual nominee.

The U.S. Congress has the constitutional right to legislate permits for cross-border oil pipelines such as the TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL, according to a new legal analysis released late on Friday.

With the crucial Republican presidential primary in South Carolina just hours away, longtime front-runner Mitt Romney is acknowledging what some opinion polls are suggesting: He could lose Saturday.

Voting on much debated SOPA and PIPA bills could be delayed in the light of recent events.

Ron Paul, the Texas Republican Congressman and 2012 Republican presidential primary candidate has inserted himself into the center of the debate over the controversial NDAA bill.

Chuck Norris, one of the GOP's biggest celebrity supporters, has endorsed Gingrich in the 2012 Republican presidential race on the eve of the South Carolina primary.

Following the recent outrage of Netizens against the anti-piracy bill Protect IP Act (PIPA), the U.S. Senate announced, Friday, that it has delayed voting on the controversial bill, which was originally scheduled for next week.

The court ruled that a Texas federal court must use maps drawn by the state's Republican-controlled legislature as a starting point when crafting a new plan.

Pro-life activist Elizabeth Leichert released a flier this week slamming Santorum for allegedly being a wolf in sheep's clothing in his opposition to abortion. But in was Leichert's attack on the GOP candidate's wife Karen, whom she accused of having a six year affair with an older abortionist, that forced the former Pennsylvania senator to strike back.

Gingrich came under attack frequently in the debate of almost two hours and deftly defended himself with the kind of strong debate performance that has buoyed his up-and-down campaign all year.