Alexi Giannoulias is trying to broaden to other companies the potential taint of political contributions from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. employees. Giannoulias, who counts Obama as a mentor and basketball buddy, yesterday called on his Republican oppo...

You may have met Ralph Sprovier before. He is the one in the grocery story check out line who dropped an unsolicited remark or two about President Barack Obama's health care plan. At the department store, he started in on the federal debt with a str...

NEW ORLEANS -- In damage control mode, GOP national chairman Michael Steele on Saturday sought to quell the furor over his management of the Republican National Committee by acknowledging errors and vowing to learn from them. "I'm the first here to ...

Illinois' Democratic voters picked a pawnbroker as their candidate for lieutenant governor, and that didn't exactly end well. So perhaps they won't mind if the next candidate doesn't have a job. Or is still in school. Or isn't actually a Democrat. A...

PHOENIX -- Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain has long faced skepticism from conservatives in his home state of Arizona. Now he will face a challenge from a high-profile critic of illegal immigration for his long-held Senate seat. ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned him out through the ballot box, or he's carried out "in a box....

In recent weeks, whenever Republican Joe Walsh spoke publicly about his bid for the suburban 8th congressional district seat, he opened with the same remarks. "I feel like I'm losing my country," the Winnetka resident said earnestly, over and over a...

In recent weeks, whenever Republican Joe Walsh spoke publicly about his bid for the suburban 8th congressional district seat, he opened with the same remarks. "I feel like I'm losing my country," the silver-haired Winnetka resident said earnestly, o...