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Documents detail the terms of a discounted mortgage loan received by U.S. Rep. Howard McKeon from the now-defunct Countrywide Financial Corp.

Conservatives said today the flap surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he'll push to overturn the requirement because it was another example of government meddling.

The president will send Congress a budget that will provide short-term help to a struggling economy while offering a long-term plan to deal with soaring deficits, the White House said Sunday.

GOP primary voters can catch their collective breath for the next two weeks after spending the past six lurching toward one candidate and then another in an exercise of political soul-searching that appears far from settled.

SANFORD, Maine - Welcome to the "Gettysburg of New England." Connecticut resident Peter Walsh was not allowed to participate in the York County Republican Caucus at the Memorial Gym on Saturday morning, but he made the trip to town anyway because he wanted to learn about the process Maine uses to select its pick for president.

For the first time in two decades, California's newly drawn congressional districts could play a big role in deciding which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives.

Congressman Donald Payne is pictured in this 2011 file photo. Payne will run for re-election and is expected to make a full recovery from colon cancer, according to his son, Donald Payne Jr., who is a Newark city councilman.

Atlanta police have arrested a suspect in the beating of a 20-year-old gay man that was captured on a widely viewed video.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday urged residents to sign up online for the city's new "Adopt-A-Sidewalk" program.

PORTLAND, Maine - Maine's presidential caucuses come at a critical time for Mitt Romney , the one-time Republican front-runner. Shaken by a string of failures, Romney is hoping to avoid a fourth consecutive defeat Saturday on the path to his party's nomination.

Naomi Adler of United Way presented plaques to Kevin McGuire of the county's Department of Social Services and Carol Hardesty of Family Ties of Westchester among several other community leaders Friday.

"It's absolutely unacceptable. It's just an economic shell game because it, for religious employers, requires indirect funding of contraception and abortifacients.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi predicted Friday that five large states will bring Democrats within striking distance of gaining control of the chamber this year.

PORTLAND, Maine - The husband of U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree is providing a multimillion loan and taking an ownership stake in the financially struggling company that owns The Portland Press Herald, officials said Friday.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Friday that the next Independence variant littoral combat ship will be named after Gabrielle Giffords , the former Arizona congresswoman who survived being shot in the head last January when a gunman opened fire as Giffords met with constituents outside a Tucson grocery store.

A Virginia congressman is asking a federal panel to reject a design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, saying the World War II general's family objects to it.

Ben Bernanke says declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending and warns that the trend could continue to weigh on the economy for years.

Senate Republicans Thursday tried to put language that would repeal the Obama administration's mandate that religious entities cover contraception into the non-related highway bill that's currently pending on the Senate floor.

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Spencer Bachus, which oversees the U.S. banking and financial services industries, is under investigation for possible violation of insider trading laws, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.