CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Republican National convention gave prominent speaking spots to a number of Latino politicians, whom the party called rising st...

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Paul Ryan delivered a scathing criticism of President Barack Obama's stewardship of the nation's economy Monday, arguing that...

By Sam Youngman WOLFEBORO, N.H., Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Republicans are preparing to unleash an aggressive publicity effort at the D...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On Sunday afternoon, the Coalition to March on Wall Street South demonstrated amid Charlotte's mega-banks, chants bouncing off the ...

WASHINGTON -- The most controversial thing to happen at the Democratic National Convention this week may end up being a movie screening. On Monday ...

* Two candidates both at 45 percent in poll * Obama has room to grow this week * Romney got modest improvement from conv...

* Speech to be held in nearly 74,000-seat stadium * Democrats aim to focus on the future, not "gauzy" look at the past ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 25-foot sand sculpture of President Barack Obama brings some of the beach to the Democratic National Convention's host city....

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Republicans have a new rhetorical punching bag: Vice President Joe Biden. With relentless attacks aimed at portraying President Ba...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Campaigning his way toward the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama slapped a "Romney doesn't care" label on...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama lampooned the just-completed Republican National Convention as better-suited to an era of black-and-whi...

WASHINGTON -- On the opening day of the Republican National Convention, the party chairman said the American people "need to prosecute the president o...

Two years ago, Scottie Wingfield moved from Washington, D.C., to Charlotte, N.C., where her partner had been offered a teaching job. In D.C., Wingfiel...

Doctors have traditionally been an apolitical lot. The growing complexity of modern medicine and the alarming rise of corporate influence on our health care over the past decade has changed all that.

This bigotry is not based on what color your skin is, what religion you happen to believe, or even what sports team you root for; it is instead based on the eternal American self-confidence that your political opinion is the right one.

The fact is, conventions themselves, staged meticulously by strategists and media consultants, have become increasingly stale for outsiders, looking more like extended televised pep rallies for party activists, lobbyists, politics junkies and media celebrities. Is it time to scrap them?

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will speak at the Democratic convention in Charlotte next week, according to ABC News. The news comes on the heel...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in the host state of the Democratic National Convention has stirred anger and rese...

HOPKINS, Minn. -- The Democratic Party is giving two prominent business leaders speaking roles at the party convention: CarMax co-founder Austin Ligon...

In spite of the ever-deepening flood of candidate advertising, politics (and journalism) today are do-it-yourself, web-based and socially-connected enterprises. Which is where you come in.

Even when issues don't seem to have an impact on the Democratic National Convention coming to Charlotte in September, they do. For instance, the co...