U.S. Politics

His campaign wants you to believe he's a rebel and iconoclast. But really he's just a narcissist.

There is an utter failure to inform voters about presidential nomination contests.

Kasich touts gubernatorial, congressional experience.

The 2016 Contenders and their allies released their finances. Who's up—and down.

Congress will take up the "No Child Left Behind" law this month.

In Iowa, an LGBT activist and a conservative leader become unlikely friends.

At a forum on faith, 2016 candidates shied away from mentioning the racially-charged attacks on a church in Charleston.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst and Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pushed their policy priorities with votes on their amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Who Jeb, Hillary, Lindsey, Marco and the rest want on their side.

He's such a hawk, McCain calls his his "illegitimate son," and he would be the first bachelor president since Cleveland.

The charges include lying to the FBI, relating to an alleged effort to hide $3.5 million in payments he was making to conceal past misconduct.

The 69-year-old Republican is positioning himself as a Washington outsider and moderate.

The Senate voted 54-45, failing to meet the threshold needed to advance a bill that would have extended provisions of the "USA Patriot Act."

How Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton carry their family baggage may determine whether either winds up in the White House.

The Clinton women speak in New York and stick to a favored cause: women's rights.

Marco Rubio and other Republican lawmakers seem eager to take a quixotic stand on the nuclear agreement with Tehran.

Republican and Democratic U.S. senators called on President Barack Obama on Tuesday to create and enforce humanitarian safe zones in Syria.

The newbies are betting voters care more about ideas and passion than time in office

America needs to devolve more power and planning from Washington to cities and metro areas.

The conspirators involved in the most devious act in American history were led by John Wilkes Booth.

The soldiers who searched for him still don't know why they risked their lives.

Convincing Congress to accept the Iran nuclear framework agreement will be a daunting political challenge for Obama.

Americans don't seem to care too much about which church their leaders pray at; they just want them on their knees

Getting on and up varies depending on which state and city you live in, making the American Dream a state, not a federal, issue.

The Republican presidential hopeful's tax plans may please only the party faithful.

The governor's championing of the Common Core will be front and center in the GOP primaries.

The rookie freshman senator from Arkansas, chairman of an Armed Services subcommittee, has already made a splash.

Having previously defended Israel at U.N., U.S. "reassessing" relations after Netanyahu's pre-election disavowal of Palestinian state.

Even Republican candidates are honing their arguments for and against legalizing weed.

Her campaigning for women's rights, and her efforts to explain her emails, shows how tricky it is to be Hillary.