Politics

(CNN) -- Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is again pushing back against calls for her resignation over the rocky rollout of the Obamacare...

(CNN) -- Speaking to a friendly audience Thursday, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton continued to argue that progressive ideas and policies are...

(AP) — Republicans say a fundraising email sent out by Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida that shows a burning cross in the words “Tea Party” is “unacceptable and deplorable.” The email has a photo depicting a burning cross with Ku Klux Klan members in white robes in the background. The words “Tea Party” appear on the image, ...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a Facebook post that during a heated confrontation over government shutdown strategy, a House GOP leader told President Barack Obama “I can not even stand to look at you,” reports The Hill. “Many Republicans searching for something to say in defense of the disastrous shutdown strategy will say President Obama just d ...

(AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to headline a California fundraiser for Terry McAuliffe, a longtime family friend running for governor in Virginia. The former secretary of state will attend the Beverly Hills fundraiser on Oct. 30. It will be hosted by longtime Clinton ...

You would think all members of the Republican Party, a group of politicos that vow to be patriotic and lament anyone who doesn’t stand for good ol’ American values, would want this two-week shutdown fia ...

UPDATE: 11:07 PM EST, 10/16/2013: “Now that the bill has passed the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, the president plans to sign it tonight and employees should expect to return to work in the morning,” Office of Management and Budget director Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in a statement posted on WhiteHouse.gov. “Employees s ...

(AP) — Newark Mayor Cory Booker won a special election Wednesday to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate, giving the rising Democratic star a bigger political stage after a race against conservative Steve Lonegan, a former small-town mayor. Booker, 44, will become the first black senator from New Jersey and heads to Washington with an unusual political resume. He was raised in suburban Harington Park as the son of two of the first black IBM executives, and graduated from Stanford and law school at Yale with a stint in between as a Rhodes Scholar before moving to one of Newark’s toughest neighborhoods with the intent of doing good. ...

(CNN) -- Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end the government shutdown and avoid a possible...

(AP) — Time growing desperately short, House Republicans pushed for passage of legislation late Tuesday to prevent a threatened Treasury default, end a 15-day partial government shutdown and extricate divided government from its latest brush with a full political meltdown. The ...