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Doing all he can to change the subject amid a number of swirling controversies, President Obama plans to return to New Jersey on Tuesday to survey recovery efforts still underway in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy .

The soaring poverty rate in the suburbs, spotlighted in an important new book from the Brookings Institution, underscores the pressing need for low-cost solutions that have support across party lines.

The super PAC created by San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer is preparing a new offensive in the Massachusetts Senate race.

In what was one of the 2012 election cycle's most important battleground states, "voter fraud does exist," Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted acknowledged in a report on Thursday.

Nate Silver kicked up a minor fuss last Friday with yet another NY Times column deriding the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan .

Three of the largest federal agencies will close to the public on Friday, the first time since the government shutdowns of the 1990s that large corners of the government have ceased operations on a weekday.

One Kelli Allman, a high-school friend of President Obama, shared with Time magazine the message a young "Barry" wrote in her high-school yearbook.

Sen. Tom Coburn said Thursday his constituents have suggested they were audited by the Internal Revenue Service because they donated to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

Remember that Obama campaign ad featuring Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" to scenes of Caribbean islands where the GOP nominee had invested some of his considerable wealth? So do Republican senators who plan to question Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker about her own off-shore assets at a confirmation hearing today, a ... (more)

Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday, picking up a sign to urge Scout leaders to retain the ban.

Remember that Obama campaign ad featuring Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" to scenes of Caribbean islands where the GOP nominee had invested some of his considerable wealth? So do Republican Senators who plan to question Commerce Secretary nominee Penny Pritzker about her own off-shore assets at a confirmation hearing today, a ... (more)

In 1976, a little-known former governor of Georgia rode all the way to the presidency on the momentum generated by his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses.

J. Russell George, U.S. Treasury inspector general for tax administration, from left, Douglas Shulman, former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS's exempt organizations office, and Neal S. Wolin, deputy secretary of the Treasury, are sworn in during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ... (more)

Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address.

You can take the flack out of the DNC but you can't take the DNC out of the flack, especially it's MSNBC regular and newly-minted weekend host Karen Finney, who today said that Mitt Romney should have made a bigger deal out of the IRS scandal on the campaign trail.

A brief exchange of comments videotaped during an effort to reach out to Latino leaders last week in Philadelphia has created a new wave of controversy for Gov.

In my final prediction of November 5 of last year , just one day before the election , I took into the account the best information on hand to project that Mitt Romney would win the election narrowly with 275 electoral votes and a slim majority of the popular vote.

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter will spend several days this fall raising money for an outside group set up to support him in both state and federal elections, fueling speculation that the Republican may be preparing to run for governor in 2015.

Electric car maker Tesla Motors showed on Wednesday it was no Solyndra, announcing it had paid off the balance of a $465 million government loan - nine years early.

Photograph: Rex Features The Boy Scouts of America will vote on Thursday on whether to accept gay youth members, partially overturning a long-running ban on allowing gay people to join the organisation.