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The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Chicago's next U.S. attorney faces a dilemma sprung from the twin evils bedeviling America's third-largest city.

New York lawmakers are pushing Amtrak to add baggage cars to its passenger trains that would be capable of carrying bicycles.

Firefighters are getting a better handle on the most destructive wildfire ever in Colorado, but they're still struggling against hot spots that could threaten homes that have been spared by the massive blaze.

The conservative Club for Growth tags Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor as President Barack Obama's "closest ally" in the state.

During an exclusive interview on ABC's This Week , Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio criticized President Obama for not intervening sooner in Syria's civil war, saying the inaction has led to the "worst possible scenario" in the war-torn country.

Britain's electronic intelligence agency monitored delegates' phones and tried to capture their passwords during an economic summit held there in 2009, the Guardian newspaper reported Sunday.

Melanie Servetas lived the American dream. She had a six-figure salary as an executive with Wells Fargo, a Jaguar and a three-bedroom house in sunny Southern California.

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Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their effort to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading GOP senator said Sunday.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough explains how the "scope and scale" of U.S. aid to Syrian rebels will expand.

Clinton is scheduled to attend a rally with Markey on Saturday at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to take some political potshots at Democrats in a speech to Kentucky's GOP faithful at a statewide dinner in Lexington.

Just a few weeks ago, it looked as though Illinois might become the thirteenth state to legalize same-sex marriage, but lawmakers failed to secure enough votes on a marriage bill that won't have another shot at a vote until the fall.

A Senate committee voted this week to move forward with a Democratic-backed education plan, but Republicans argue the proposal forces the country's school systems to further rely on the federal government.

As President Barack Obama pushes an ambitious agenda to liberalize global trading, political trade wars already are forming, and they're with fellow Democrats rather than with Republicans, his usual antagonists.

Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama's health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism.

Surrounded by sleigh bell-ringing Santa Claus impersonators, Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday signed a law protecting Christmas and other holiday celebrations in Texas public schools from legal challenges - but also stressed that freedom of religion is not the same thing as freedom from religion.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former president Bill Clinton shared a stage on Friday, a Republican and a Democrat getting together to talk about leadership in the face of a crisis.

He nominated Rufus Gifford, who had served as finance chairman of the inaugural committee, as ambassador to Denmark.