In defending himself over allegations that he made an inappropriate remark to a 17-year-old girl, Connecticut state Rep. Ernest Hewett (D-New London) may have dug himself into an even deeper hole.

Hewett was already under fire for telling a high school senior who had described her fear...

Hours after USA Today obtained the first draft of President Obama's immigration reform plan, the office of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) put out a press release signaling the lawmaker's strong opposition.

“It’s a mistake for the White House to draft immigration legislation without seeking...

Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL who wrote the best-selling book American Sniper about his service in Iraq, was shot and killed at a gun range in Texas, multiple outlets reported Saturday night. A second man was also killed.

According to local TV station KHOU, officials said that Kyle was...

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has long been an outspoken critic of the National Rifle Association. But in an interview with ABC's "Nightline," his rhetoric reached new heights when he suggested that the organization was partially to blame for last week's Newtown, Conn. school shooting.

"We're not...

Rupert Murdoch's latest bid at stirring up controversy on Twitter had the media world scratching its head Saturday night. As the Israel/Gaza conflict headed to a fifth day, the newspaper mogul expressed frustration at coverage of the crisis in characteristically incendiary style:

It is unclear who the resolutely pro-Israel...

One day after the GOP suffered a crushing presidential defeat that spotlighted the party's unpopularity with Latino voters, Fox News star Sean Hannity announced that his position on undocumented immigrants had "evolved" and that he now supports a pathway to citizenship. (Listen above.)

Musing on his...

The Des Moines Register announced in an editorial released on Saturday night that it would back Mitt Romney in 2012. It implored readers to give Romney "a chance to correct the nation’s fiscal course and to implode the partisan gridlock that has shackled Washington and the...

Saturday Night Live used its opening sketch to lampoon Thursday's vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.

After a reminder from debate moderator Martha Raddatz (played by Kate McKinnon) that "your performance is extremely unlikely to affect the outcome of the election, so just have fun with it,"...

Appearing Thursday on Fox News, Sarah Palin expressed outrage at the mainstream media over the Associated Press's decision to run an unflattering photo of Mitt Romney on Monday. (Watch above.)

Asked by host Megyn Kelly whether the photo constituted media bias or a "forgivable mistake," Palin responded, "Hell...

Jennifer Granholm electrified the Democratic National Convention crowd Thursday with a bold, energetic, and above all loud speech that took direct aim at Republican nominee Mitt Romney. (Watch above.)

The former Michigan governor hardly seemed to need the microphone in front of her as she shouted her words to a...

During the hard-fought Republican primary, it was no secret that Newt Gingrich disdained Mitt Romney. Apparently, his feelings toward the presumptive nominee have only softened a little since then.

On "Hardball" Thursday night (Watch above), host Chris Matthews questioned Gingrich about why people who compete...

In an excerpt of an exclusive interview that will air Sunday night on CBS, President Obama spoke at length about what he sees as the most important misstep he has made in office.

"What do you think the lesson has been that might guarantee success in the second...

The star of "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" has finally weighed in on the government's role in vaccinating children. And he's not happy.

In an interview with a California news station (watch above), comic actor Rob Schneider, whose sitcom "¡Rob!" was recently canceled by CBS, inveighed against a...

In the aftermath of John Roberts' surprise majority opinion to uphold President Obama's health care law, many right-wingers continued their attack on the Supreme Court's chief justice, calling into question both his line of judicial reasoning and his conservative bona fides.

"John Roberts has evolved...

Conservative firebrand Michael Savage is not known to mince words--one of his favorite adjectives is "Islamofascist," and in 2009 he was banned from entering the United Kingdom on grounds of extremism.

But on Thursday, the popular radio talk show host's outspokenness veered into particularly strange territory when...

Conservatives were united in their disappointment over the Supreme Court's upholding of President Barack Obama's health care law on Thursday. But one former GOP spokesman took things a bit further than the near-uniform vows to repeal the legislation.

Matt Davis, a Michigan attorney who was once...

On Thursday, just after 10 a.m., the big moment will finally arrive: The Supreme Court will hand down its ruling on the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature piece of domestic legislation.

The central question about the proceedings: Will the court strike down the law...

Weighing in on President Obama's targeted drone strikes in the Middle East, journalist Jeremy Scahill did not mince words.

During his appearance on MSNBC's "Up With Chris Hayes" Saturday morning, Scahill repeatedly said that such attacks, when they killed innocent civilians, amounted to "murder."

Asked by Hayes why...

Tourists cruising near the Upsala Glacier in Argentina recently spied an unusual sight: a massive iceberg flipping over in the middle of the ocean. Luckily for the rest of the world, someone caught the whole thing on film.

In the minute-plus long clip, a huge block of...

Newark mayor Cory Booker sent out a series of impassioned tweets Thursday evening in response to continuing fallout from his appearance on "Meet The Press" last Sunday, in which he expressed discomfort with the Obama campaign's strategy of attacking Mitt Romney over his career in private equity. "Sorry...