Politics

Arizona's secretary of state said Wednesday that Hawaii's official verification of President Barack Obama's birth records meets necessary requirements, meaning the president's name will appear on Arizona's ballot in the fall.

Mitt Romney swept the Kentucky and Arkansas Republican presidential primaries Tuesday, inching closer to the GOP nomination he is certain to win.

Lee County commissioners voted 4-1 on Tuesday, with Commissioner Frank Mann dissenting, to allow the the issue of slot machines to go to referendum and get on the November ballot.

Two Republican heavyweights have thrown their support behind candidates running for the Congressional seat representing Southwest Florida.

Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control coverage, filing federal lawsuits Monday on behalf of dioceses, schools and health care agencies that argued the requirement violates religious freedom.

As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat.

In his first visit to the Oval Office, French President Francois Hollande declared he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by year's end, making clear to President Barack Obama the timeline for ending the U.S.-led war will not ...

Mitt Romney swiftly and firmly distanced himself Thursday from a group exploring plans to target President Barack Obama's relationship with a controversial former pastor. But the revival of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue momentarily placed race at ...

Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the problem for the U.S. is how to avoid getting stuck with the check for $4.1 billion a year.

What only weeks ago was seen as a serious threat to the economic recovery could now turn into a stimulus everyone can love.

Mitt Romney swung through Florida on Thursday, picking up more than $2 million in political contributions while bashing President Barack Barack Obama as an ineffective leader.

Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder said he considers Limbaugh to be among the "pantheon of Republican heroes" alongside President Ronald Reagan. "Rush's success demonstrated a nationwide market not previously catered to," he said.

President Barack Obama on Monday defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it "expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody."

Scott, a Naples Republican, said Monday his continued focus on the state's job market is just one of his priorities as he approaches his first term's halfway mark.

Ron Paul, Mitt Romney's lone remaining rival for the Republican presidential nomination, announced Monday that he would stop spending money on the party's 11 remaining primaries, in effect suspending his campaign.