Katy Hall

A wave of Republican-sponsored laws restricting who can and cannot vote may mean that fewer Democrats, especially those who are low-income or minorities, vote in the 2012 presidential election.

Since the beginning of 2011, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,...

Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock unseated six-term Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) in the Republican primary Tuesday after convincing voters that Lugar was too moderate and worked too closely with Democrats.

"I don't believe we need more bipartisanship in Washington," he told a Tea Party crowd last year....

John Edwards and Rielle Hunter's torrid romance may be over, but their breakup was a happy one compared to what happened between Edwards and Andrew Young, the former aide who was once so devoted to Edwards that he claimed paternity of the former senator's love child.

As Edwards'...

Anti-bullying legislation may seem unlikely to spark controversy, but there are groups working to overturn new laws in the name of religious freedom.

Focus on the Family is planning to counter the "Day of Silence," an annual event to protest LGBT bullying set for April 20, with its own...

President Obama is "confident" the Supreme Court will rule that his health care law is constitutional, but heated questioning by conservative justices at last week's hearings leaves uncertain the fate of not only the individual mandate but also the entire law.

If the mandate is...

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) apologized Tuesday to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) for accusing her of lying about the gender breakdown of a contraception hearing panel, but plenty of real lies remain in the debate over women's health. Some are promoted by Republican lawmakers as they push legislation...

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled a budget Tuesday that would slash federal spending by $5 trillion more than the budget President Barack Obama released last month, in large part through sweeping cuts to safety net programs.

As HuffPost's Michael McAuliff reported, Ryan's...

The men of Bored to Death love each other. Not in the sharing a bed sense, though the characters played by Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis do that in Season 3, which begins Monday. It’s the sort of brotherly obsession that allows men tender moments between the homoerotic...

Blue Valentine goes from grim to devastating when Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams have sad sex on the floor of a cheesy love motel, fighting between thrusts. She slaps him meanly and squeezes her eyes shut, as if trying to wring the disgust from her body.

They're staying in the...

Kody Brown married his first wife, Meri, 20 years ago. Three years later he married Janelle, and a year after that he married Christine.

"I just fell in love. Then I fell in love again, and I fell in love again," he says in the opening episode of 'Sister...

Kate Gosselin, her eight kids, bodyguards and a TLC crew took the ferry to Bald Head Island, N.C., on Sunday for a week of camera-ready beach fun. The next day I arrived with little more than a swimsuit and a stack of books, hoping to unplug for a whole week...

Bryan Batt's 'Mad Men' contract wasn't renewed for Season 4, but he's still hoping Salvatore Romano has some more life left.

"Matt doesn't kill characters like on 'The Sopranos,' so I'm not dead," Batt told the Huffington Post, referencing the show's creator, Matthew Weiner, and his last...

On the heels of Karl Rove's improbable assertion that George W. Bush would not have gone to war with Iraq if he had thought there were no WMD comes another narrative about our missteps into war and the confusing months following the invasion.

Paul Greengrass' new movie,...

Not many supermodels have made graceful transitions from the runway to the big screen, but Lily Cole may prove an exception. The doll-faced redhead started walking in top shows all over the world at age 14, became the youngest model ever to cover British Vogue at age 16 and...

Tom Ford and Colin Firth still can't agree on whether Ford told Firth he was too fat to star in Ford's first film, A Single Man.

"He tended to ask me, 'you know, if you wanted a trainer, to come to your house every day, holidays too...' that means...

British newcomer Carey Mulligan is already drawing Oscar buzz and Audrey Hepburn comparisons for her performance in 'An Education,' a small Sundance film out Friday in wide release by Sony Pictures Classics.

Mulligan, now 24, stars as a 16-year-old schoolgirl who falls for a much older playboy (Peter Sarsgaard)...

Judy Collins unpacks the dizzying history of the folk movement one musical story at a time. She sings the song her good friend Joan Baez wrote about her relationship with Bob Dylan, the song Collins recorded for Leonard Cohen that gave him the confidence to start performing, the billboard hits...

The lithe, glum women of Spread fulfill the prurient promise of the film's title without doing much else. Ashton Kutcher, the star and producer of the soft-core, low-budget ode to his own powers of seduction, does somewhat less. Kutcher plays Nikki, a heartless sexual grifter who left the Midwest for...

An alcoholic does not necessarily a good bartender make. A band of unhinged plastic surgery addicts is similarly ill-advised to open a one-stop shop for body transformations, and this obvious disaster recipe is the basis for Oxygen's newest reality series, 'Addicted to Beauty' (premiering Aug. 4 at 11 p.m....

Woody Allen's new movie, "Whatever Works" may seem to follow a familiar formula (old New York grouch reluctantly finds himself taken by spritely ingenue, proceeds to sever his lifeline to happiness)--and it is based on a script Allen wrote in the 1970s and recently resurrected.

But this time Allen...