The widow of late Rep. Bill Young (R-FL) told former Florida governor Charlie Crist in an email to stay away from her husband's memorial service, the Tampa Bay Times reported Monday.

The memorial service for Young, who died Friday at age 82, is scheduled for Thursday. Beverly Young instructed Crist, now a prospective Democratic candidate for governor, not to attend the service.

Federal health officials went ahead with the Oct. 1 launch of Obamacare's online health insurance marketplace despite a failed test days before, the Washington Post reported Monday.

Government officials and contractors ran a test to see whether the web portal could handle traffic from tens of thousands of users simultaneously, and the site crashed after a simulation in which only a few hundred tried to log on at the same time, according to the Post.

Jon Stewart is confident that Democrats could gain an overwhelming political advantage over Republicans -- if only they could accomplish a "mildly competent implementation" of the health care law they fought to pass.

Just 12 percent of Americans approve of Congress' job performance, a new low in 40 years of polling, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Tuesday.

The survey shows Congress' worst approval rating in ABC/Post polls since 1989 and in Gallup polls dating back to 1974, with 85 percent of Americans disapproving of the legislative branch in the wake of the government shutdown.

Obamacare has already weathered a government shutdown and threats of a debt crisis, and next week Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) plans to propose a another challenge to the health care law's individual mandate.

Rubio released a statement Monday announcing plans to introduce legislation that would delay the health care law's individual mandate until several months after its web portal gets up to speed.

Law enforcement officers forcibly removed a white supremacist from a city council meeting Friday night in the tiny town of Leith, North Dakota, the Bismarck Tribune reported.

City councilman Lee Cook told the newspaper that Kynan Dutton, 29, was confrontational and made profane, racist remarks in the presence of children. Dutton was "pretty drunk," according to Grant County Sheriff Steve Bay. 

A grassroots organization founded by former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is asking supporters to join a "Strikeforce" to get out the vote for Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's (R) gubernatorial campaign.

Santorum's Patriot Voices PAC encourages supporters to sign up on its website to go door-to-door and hold sign waves from Nov. 1-3 in an effort to get Republican voters to the polls. Recent polling has shown Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe widening his lead over Cuccinelli.

According to a forthcoming book on media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Fox News' public relations staffers set up hundreds of phony accounts in the mid-to-late 2000s to push back against bloggers' criticism of the network, taking care to cover their digital tracks.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is confident that his daughter Liz Cheney will be the next senator from Wyoming.

Cheney told USA Today in an interview published Sunday that his daughter, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), represents exactly what the Republican party needs in a candidate: a fresh face.

Florida Congressman Joe Garcia's (D) former chief of staff is expected to spend 90 days in jail as part of a plea deal in a fraudulent absentee-ballot case, the Miami Herald reported Sunday.

Jeffrey Garcia (no relation to the congressman) is slated to plead guilty to requesting absentee ballots on behalf of voters in a deal to be inked Monday with the Miami-Dade state attorney's office, according to the Herald.