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How's this for fiscal responsibility? According to a recent filing with the Federal Election Commission, Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign is $4.8 million in the hole. And he's not the only one. Rick Santorum bowed out of the race for the Republican...

Federal courts struck two blows last week for more transparency in election campaigns. Voters should be pleased. A federal appeals panel inWashington, D.C., declined to block a lower court ruling that requires tax-exempt organizations running election-...

"While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics." That penultimate sentence in now-retired Justice John Paul Stevens' brilliant dissent in the...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A federal jury in the political corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards deliberated for a second day Monday without reaching a verdict, as Edwards quietly awaited his fate inside a federal courthouse. The...

It won't ake vitriolic political attack ads any more palatable, but a welcome step toward transparency became possible last week thanks to a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in favor of disclosure. In a 2-1 decision, the judges declined to block a lower...

WASHINGTON — Effectively clinching the Republican presidential nomination last month allowed Mitt Romney's campaign to marshal larger checks and chip into President Obama's huge lead in the money chase heading into the general election. Romney...

WASHINGTON – By effectively clinching the Republican nomination last month, Mitt Romney’s campaign was able to marshal larger checks and chip into President Obama’s huge head start in the money chase heading into the general election....

The late, legendary California politician Jesse Unruh is perhaps best remembered for his remark, "Money is the mother's milk of politics." He made his observation nearly a half century ago, before the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s. Since then, the...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Both sides in the John Edwards trial gave detailed closing arguments Thursday to a federal jury that will decide whether the former presidential candidate knowingly violated campaign finance laws in a scheme to hide an...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The jurors who will decide the fate of former presidential candidate John Edwards deliberated for more than four hours Friday before breaking for the weekend in a trial focused on complex campaign finance laws and lurid details of...

Once a year, I elect to take a vacation whether I need one or not. With the constant pressures of the everyday world, it's nice to relax, with no phone, computer or today's infinite amount of social distractions. Barring a catastrophe, I purposefully...

Full Name: Willard M. "Mitt" Romney Born: March 12, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan Official Website: www.mittromney.com mittromney @mittromney Biography: Mitt Romney's 2012 White House bid is his second attempt to win the Oval Office. During the 2008...