WASHINGTON -- Exit polls indicate that President Barack Obama received 69 percent of the Jewish vote Tuesday. Partisans have just begun to argue whether that was an overwhelming endorsement or the latest evidence that one of the Democratic Party's most reliable constituencies is becoming less so with every...

WASHINGTON -- The push to win a particular 2 percent of the population entered its last hours Monday, with both presidential candidates' seeking an edge with Jewish voters who may play a deciding role in the key battleground states of Ohio and Florida.

Supporters of Mitt Romney have sought for...

WASHINGTON -- As the country chooses a president Tuesday, a timely new book by a veteran military writer makes the case that it is now easier to sack the commander in chief than it is to remove the generals who serve at his pleasure.

In The Generals:...

WASHINGTON -- In a move that may signal the next major battle over equality in the armed forces, the newly combined groups that represent gays in the military have chosen a transgender graduate of West Point as their new leader.

Allyson Robinson will lead the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and...

If some of Mitt Romney's more hawkish supporters tweeted themselves into a tizzy over his kinder and gentler performance in Monday's foreign policy debate, many of his neoconservative kitchen cabinet members were back on the offensive against President Barack Obama the morning after.

As the final face-off...

The founder of Rabbis for Romney says he won't divulge the names of its members because he fears they will be criticized for breaking with the majority of Jews who support President Barack Obama.

"I don't want to happen to them what happened to me," said Rabbi Bernhard...

An American freelance journalist who spent more than two years in an Iranian prison said he can relate to inmates in U.S. prisons who face indefinite solitary confinement without hope of reconnecting with other human beings because he's been through it.

Shane Bauer, one of three Americans detained...

WASHINGTON -- Frank Sinatra may have been called the Chairman of the Board but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is no slouch himself when it comes to carrying a tune.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the nation's highest-ranking military officer, sang "When Irish Eyes Are...

A devastating new report that found homeland security officials have wasted perhaps billions of dollars on intelligence-gathering complexes known as fusion centers that haven't detected a single terrorist threat, even as they invaded citizens' privacy, could present another political headache for one of their biggest advocates: Mitt Romney.

During an Army-wide stand down for suicide prevention sessions, a Christian chaplain in Texas improperly led rookie soldiers in a candlelight prayer, an Army instructor said in a formal complaint last week.

Staff Sgt. Victoria Gettman, a lab technician instructor at Fort Sam Houston, told The...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican Jewish Coalition on Thursday began offering "volunteers" who work the phones in key battleground states "awesome thank-you incentives" for their time helping to defeat President Barack Obama in November.

Put in at least 20 hours at an official RJC phone bank in California, Florida,...

WASHINGTON -- From 2000 to 2010, the number of Americans who consider themselves multiracial grew faster than those who self-identify as a single race, with the largest gains coming in the once racially segregated South and among those who identify as both white and black, according to a new

As new polls show President Barack Obama widening his margin in Paul Ryan's home state of Wisconsin and Mitt Romney's stomping ground of Massachusetts sitting safely in the Democratic column, the GOP presidential nominee might want to embrace his inner Woodrow Wilson.

What can...

A former star cadet at the Citadel who worked for the presidential campaigns of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney has been identified as the suspect in an investigation of sexual misconduct involving fellow male classmates at the South Carolina military college.

According to an internal school email first reported by...

An Arizona couple is suing their son's former school district for allegedly throwing him in a tiny, windowless room for bad behavior they say was caused by officials ignoring his severe allergies and feeding him foods packed with sugar.

Leslie and Eric Noyes of Glendale, Ariz., filed a

WASHINGTON -- A newly surfaced Congressional Research Service analysis of the government's targeted killing of suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens, suggests the Obama administration's view of due process in these situations is similar to that of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

According to the CRS memo prepared for members of...

One of the security guards killed during an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that may have been related to an incendiary anti-Muslim video was active in a group that fights religious proselytizing in the U.S. military.

Glen Doherty, 42, a former Navy SEAL, was one of the...

WASHINGTON -- Advocates of a controversial plan to nationalize a monument to District of Columbia troops who died in World War I have surrendered to local opposition and now have their sights on a corner of the National Mall that Congress has said is off limits to...

"NO minors/Liberals." So reads the fine print on the flyer for Tattletales, one Tampa area strip club seeking to attract the Republican hordes in town this week for the Republican National Convention.

Some predicted that area exotic clubs would see triple the business of Super Bowl weekend, but on

WASHINGTON -- The inspector general of the Army is investigating "allegations of impropriety" by the head of the Indiana National Guard following Monday's Huffington Post report that he recorded a fundraising video for an evangelical Christian organization.

"The National Guard Bureau leadership is aware of the issue," a...