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Three men accused of building Molotov cocktails were planning attacks at President Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters and at the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel during this weekend's NATO Summit, prosecutors said.

Sarah Palin's endorsements, so crucial to the elections of 2010, still hold sway, even if her candidates don't always win. She brings attention to underdogs. A Texas endorsement will soon be tested, and a Nebraska primary win may or may not have been helped by a Palin endorsement.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., doled out attacks on President Obama tonight in a high-profile speech before South Carolina Republicans, laying out aggressive criticisms of the president as he called him the most “divisive figure” in American politics. “The president and his party’s...

WASHINGTON — There were a couple new faces in town at the annual Group of Eight summit, and a couple new allies for President Obama, who has been urging Europeans to follow America’s lead.  And with 4 million jobs created in the United States in...

Ron Paul backers have secured 12 of 13 delegates at Minnesota’ state GOP convention, according to a source who was there and is familiar with the delegates’ leanings. Saturday’s convention gives Paul 32 of Minnesota’s 40 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.,...

WASHINGTON — While the G-8 Summit leaders held a working lunch on food security, first lady Michelle Obama played host back at the White House. Catered by celebrity chef Jose Andres, the G-8 spouses gathered for an “intimate lunch,” according to the White House. On...

WASHINGTON — The Group of Eight leaders ramped up pressure on Iran today, pledging unprecedented support to the global oil supply, on the second day of the G-8 Summit at Camp David. In a strongly worded statement, the G-8 said that increasing disruptions in the...

President Obama and the other leaders of the G8 countries gathered today at Camp David for a day of economic summitry braved swarming gnats to step out briefly into the mountain sunshine for the traditional class photo. Despite staff efforts to spray the area for...

WASHINGTON –President Obama suggested that European austerity should be tempered with efforts  to stimulate growth, as the eight leaders of the world’s largest economies gathered at Camp David for a summit that was also expected to touch on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the ongoing bloodshed...

Saturday the Myrtle Beach NAACP held a vigil where they lit candles for Trayvon Martin and victims of violence. The event featured guest speakers from the community.

Jurors in the John Edwards' campaign corruption trial are taking a break for the weekend before taking up the case again on Monday.

Friday marked the official start of the Atlantic Beach Bike Fest, but it doesn't look that way. Last month, town officials extended the event to include this weekend, as well as Memorial Day weekend.

Nurses' protest to draw thousands ahead of NATO summit, scores of Chicago workers staying home

Evidence mixed for George Zimmerman's claim that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense

The political director for South Carolina Senate Democrats has been reprimanded for referring to Republican Gov. Nikki Haley as a "Sikh Jesus."

SPIN METER: Never mind, the GOP also-rans make nice, airbrush their anti-Romney scripts

Medical marijuana supporter wins Democratic primary in Oregon attorney general race

Almost half of those polled think Facebook will fade as other social networks dominate our time.

For the third year in a row, a narrow majority of Americans consider gay and lesbian relations morally acceptable.

Despite the heated campaign, lackluster performance on the economy and negative feelings many conservatives have toward President Obama, many voters still like Obama as a person.

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame-duck session after the November elections.

Tommy Starling and Jeff Littlefield say they've slowly been changing minds of people in their community when it comes to what a family looks like.

Congressional Republicans are threatening another game of chicken with the debt ceiling. This will get America nowhere, says John Avlon.

William Bennett says Gov. Jerry Brown should look to Wisconsin as role model in solving the state's huge budget shortfalls

President Obama and Mitt Romney may have different political and economic views, but they are both propped up by highly affluent power brokers who are expecting big returns for the big checks they are writing.

David Frum agrees with political observers that the GOP's extremism and obstructionism is at the core of today's dysfunctional government.

World leaders huddling at the Group of Eight meeting on Saturday committed to taking "all necessary steps" to bolster the global economy and geared up to deal with possible oil supply disruptions ahead of tough sanctions on Iran.

President Obama and other world leaders are set to address a host of pressing economic and military security issues this weekend as the U.S. hosts a high stakes Group of Eight summit outside Washington and a NATO summit in Chicago.

The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a nearly $643 billion military spending bill -- a measure at odds with prior defense spending agreements and President Barack Obama's Pentagon plans.

FLORENCE, S.C. -- Florence County Councilman Johnnie D. Rodgers Jr. announced Thursday that he is resigning his position as representative for District 5 due to health reasons effective June 29.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - The eldest daughter John Edwards is set to take the stand in her father's defense.

The state of the Timmonsville has ventured beyond the realm of sad, past the lands of pity and despair and is now standing on the banks of the River Styx, waiting for Charon to ferry it and all its inhabitants to Hades.

TIMMONSVILLE, S.C. -- Timmonsville fired its administrator, clerk of court, clerk treasurer and much of its police force during a specially called meeting Friday. The elimination of the police force has been expected ever since the town’s dire financial situation has been unfolding in recent weeks.

FLORENCE, S.C. – Voters have one last chance to register for the upcoming June 12 primaries.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ending months of equivocation, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, an announcement fraught with history that also injects a potentially polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House.

My first cognizant political memory came in the eighth grade. It was the year 2000 and I was selected to play Ralph Nader in a school assembly focusing on the upcoming presidential election.

The law is an ass, wrote Charles Dickens (and others).

This delectable phrase comes to mind this week as South Carolina jurists, legislators and politicians of all stripes try to figure out what to do in the wake of a South Carolina Supreme Court ruling enforcing, in a very literal way, a law meant to keep politicians honest.

Stunning and depressing revelations at official meetings in the Town of Timmonsville are nothing new. Starting with last spring’s sudden layoff of 19 employees in Florence School District 4, and running right through just about everything the town council has done since last fall’s elections, it has been nothing but strange and sad news in the little western Florence County hamlet.

FLORENCE – Tough economic times mean tough choices and, at Thursday afternoon’s Florence County Council budget work session, some tough words for South Carolina Legislature.