In the latest poll of the California governor’s race, Meg Whitman is leading Jerry Brown 46-39.
Tom Emmer, the presumptive GOP nominee for governor of Minnesota, does a little damage control after declaring some waiters are overpaid — by pulling a shift waiting tables.
President Obama nominates former Clinton OMB Director Jacob Lew to return to his old post, replacing Peter Orszag.
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More on the final breakthrough on financial reform.
A remembrance of Steinbrenner’s great Yankee teams of the late 1970s in a city that was doubting its own greatness.
The U.S. says the Iranian scientist holed up in the Iranian interests section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington is free to go — and was never held against his will.
Ben Nelson relents and Harry Reid says he’ll file cloture on financial reform later today, setting up a vote on Thursday where it looks like reformers will have their 60 votes to overcome the filibuster and move the bill to the floor.
We take a closer look at how ex-health-care-CEO Rick Scott’s enormous $20 million play to be governor of Florida has left Bill McCollum, who had been the presumed Republican nominee, with only $800,000 in the bank and struggling to come up with enough cash to make it through the primary.