Politics

First Lady Michelle Obama and the spouses of NATO heads of state dropped by to watch a hip-hop aerobics class for children.

Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt.

Massachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers, but they are not talking about that history on the campaign trail.

The District of Columbia along with 22 states are backing Montana in a fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court from using its 2010 Citizens United decision to strike down state laws on corporate campaign expenditures.

Ron Paul is retiring from Congress, but that doesn't make being a candidate to replace him much easier.

While President Barack Obama hosts world leaders at Camp David, Michelle Obama is entertaining their spouses at the White House. 

President Barack Obama is making a pitch for banking reform, pointing to a multi-billion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase as a symptom of practices that he says led to the financial meltdown in 2008.

Some top Democrats are pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth.

House Speaker John Boehner says Congress wants "to hold everyone at the Department of Justice and the administration accountable for what happened or what didn't happen in 'Fast and Furious'."

Mitt and Ann Romney are opening their personal checkbooks as wide as allowed to their presidential campaign's joint fund with the Republican National Committee.