The race to challenge Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel crystallized Monday as a businessman, alderman and county commissioner were among the last candidates to file petitions before the deadline, setting up a lower-profile 2015 competition than once expec...

HENDERSON, Nev. — President Barack Obama says voters want a “new car smell” in the 2016 White House race and that Hillary Rodham Clinton would be “a great president.” But would Clinton pass that particular smell test? In a nationally televised inter...

WASHINGTON - When President Obama was elected in 2008, his victory signaled a generational change and the prospect of renewal for the Democratic Party. Instead, the opposite has occurred. Over the past six years, the party has been hollowed out. The...

WASHINGTON - Mitch McConnell has been waiting for this moment for a long time. The Kentucky Republican survived one of the most difficult elections of his 30-year Senate career and is positioned to become the next majority leader. McConnell, 72, was...

WASHINGTON — He is not on the ballot, but Republicans on Sunday assailed President Barack Obama in a final-weekend clash between candidates and party leaders, as an increasingly confident Republican Party eyes control of Congress two days before Ele...

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, seen as Mayor Rahm Emanuel's most high-profile re-election challenger, won't run in 2015, a spokeswoman announced Monday. According to ABC7 News, Lewis decided not to run after being diagnosed last week...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's gay marriage decision has reignited a debate inside the GOP that many Republican leaders hoped to avoid ahead of the 2016 presidential contest. The court's decision Monday to reject appeals from five states that soug...

Republican Lake County clerk candidate Carla Wyckoff has received some substantial political donations in recent weeks, state records show, including one from a nationally prominent GOP donor. Conversely, Wyckoff's Democratic rival, Janet Kilkelly, ...