WASHINGTON -- In a rare floor speech Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) demanded that the Obama administration reverse its new rule requiring most employers' insurance plans to cover birth control with no co-pay for employees. Boehner pledged to take legislative action if the administration refuses to reverse....

Standing right behind Rick Santorum (over his right shoulder) as he gave his victory speech in Missouri after the Republican primary Tuesday night was Foster Freiss, the main financial backer of his super PAC.

Friess is a wealthy businessman and a bankroller of many conservative causes. His donations to...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision to drop his opposition to super PACs and encourage donors to write checks to these well-financed entities has again raised one of the defining frictions of his administration. At what point are Obama and his supporters comfortable with political pragmatism trumping policy principles?

It's...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama continues to "evolve" on the topic of same-sex marriage, his top spokesman said Tuesday, just hours after a federal appellate court ruled that a state's ban on such unions is unconstitutional.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the president's personal stance on same-sex...

WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) ripped into both President Barack Obama and his re-election team on Tuesday morning for backing off its previous criticism of outside spending on campaigns and embracing the role that super PACs will play in the 2012 election.

"It is a dumb approach," Feingold...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's campaign is reconfiguring its approach to powerful super PACs, worried the president's re-election prospects could be overwhelmed by conservative groups raising and spending unlimited amounts of money.

The president's advisers have signaled to donors that he will soften, for the time being, his long-standing...

LAS VEGAS -- Newt Gingrich's increasingly quixotic quest for the Republican presidential nomination will go on, even after he received a drubbing in Saturday night's Nevada caucuses.

The former House speaker sought to dispel rumors that he would be dropping out of the race in a press conference that, befitting...

LAS VEGAS -- In order to understand how deeply ingrained Republican hatred for President Barack Obama truly is, you need only ask one question: What would the president have to do to win your support?

It's rhetorical. There is nothing the president could do, save become a Republican himself, to...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- There are dual and somewhat contradictory expectations heading into Saturday evening's Nevada caucus. One is that Mitt Romney will win and win comfortably. The second is that Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul will soldier on even after the drubbing.

Like many of the upcoming...

LAS VEGAS -- In the shadow of Henderson's Green Valley, where the likes of the Waltons chisel vacation homes into the mountains, Mitt Romney held his final Nevada rally before caucuses here Saturday. In the parking lot of a strip mall behind a well-regarded brick-oven-fired pizza...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain will not be among those tuning in to the HBO movie "Game Change" when it premiers on March 10.

During an interview with CNBC Thursday morning, the Arizona senator was asked about his plans to view the flick, based on the Mark Halperin and...

President Barack Obama has been abandoned by the world of finance.

Over the course of the 2012 election, his presidential campaign has received about one dollar in donations from the financial sector for every five dollars given to his top competitor, Mitt Romney, according to figures provided by the Center...

WASHINGTON -- A top official with the Newt Gingrich campaign said Thursday that the former House speaker would take a challenge over the allocation of Florida's delegates all the way to the GOP convention floor if circumstances demanded it.

Bill McCollum, Gingrich's Florida co-chair and the state's former Attorney...

WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich's difficulties in winning the endorsements of Republican lawmakers are no secret. The animus still held by those who worked with the former Speaker has become, in no small part, a defining feature of his presidential campaign: evidence that he is volatile, unprincipled and incapable of effective...

WASHINGTON -- The rapid growth of super PACs has dramatically altered the world of campaign finance, providing wealthy donors with the ability to pair their seemingly bottomless accounts with the independent expenditure committees of their choice.

It's also dramatically altered the way that candidates are going about managing their political...

WASHINGTON -- Former presidential candidate Herman Cain nearly stormed off the set during a commercial break while doing an MSNBC interview Tuesday, after a panelist said he would question him about the regressive nature of his flat tax policy.

Cain appeared as an in-studio guest on "Now With Alex Wagner"...

WASHINGTON -- A super PAC affiliated with the labor federation AFL-CIO will announce on Tuesday that it has raised $3.7 million. It currently has $3 million of that amount on hand.

The funds raised by the group, Workers' Voices, falls short of the massive amounts of money that have been...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's announcement that he is taking his campaign to the Republican convention in Tampa is being dismissed as typical election season bluster. How else to describe a candidate without much money, dwindling momentum, and a truly narrowing path to the GOP nomination who is pledging to...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, state attorneys general, and, perhaps, the nation's largest banks are close to a final settlement on the years-long struggle over allegations of massive foreclosure fraud, according to several sources familiar with the talks. And the final details of the arrangement, according to the source who...

Earlier this week, Newt Gingrich caught criticism from Florida's Sen. Marco Rubio over an Spanish-language radio ad, in which Mitt Romney was referred to as "anti-immigrant." Said Rubio -- who is neutral in the 2012 race and has endorsed no one as of yet -- "This kind of language...