Veteran congressman Rep. Charles Rangel and his campaign have agreed to pay a $23,000 civil penalty in a settlement over the use of a rent-stabilized apartment as his campaign headquarters, according to Federal Election Commission documents.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday that he is taking the first official step toward a presidential bid.
Saddled with legal fees and facing possible new allegations, Rep. Charles Rangel said Tuesday he has started raising funds for a trust to pay his legal expenses.
New York state legislator Adam Clayton Powell IV on Monday announced his candidacy in this year's Democratic primary against 20-term U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, who has spent the past year battling an ethics investigation.
New York Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV plans to challenge Charlie Rangel for his U.S. House seat.
A former Obama campaign official has some tough things to say, but says he's still a supporter. CNN's Ed Henry reports.
Steve Hildebrand was one of the top advisers who helped put President Obama in office, but he has a stark warning for his old friends at the White House and on Capitol Hill.
Sarah Palin's not a quitter, she wants the public to know.
No legal "bombshell" or personal scandal lies behind Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation, but off-color jokes by talk-show host David Letterman contributed to her decision to step down, Palin's attorney said Monday.
Congressman Charles Rangel's fate hangs in the balance as a report concerning the Ways and Means Committee chairman is being prepared for release in early January.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a radical on abortion rights.
Gov. Sarah Palin says that every innocent life does matter and everyone belongs in the circle of protection
Larry King talks with his panel about the third day at the Republican convention, including Sarah Palin's speech.
Democrats accused Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of mirroring "divisive" attacks by President Bush Wednesday night and said showed she wasn't qualified to be on the ticket.
What does Sen. Hillary Clinton need to do to secure the Democratic presidential nomination? CNN's Tom Foreman reports
Lawyers for Sen. Larry Craig asked a Minnesota appeals court Tuesday to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from his June arrest in a public bathroom sex sting, citing a "grave procedural flaw."
A new campaign finance report filed with the Senate shows Sen. Larry Craig spent about $23,000 in campaign money on lawyers in his ethics investigation.
Barack Obama knows it's a stretch to think of him as president.
Tired of being seen by religious voters as too secular or even hostile toward religion, the Democratic Party and its presidential candidates have launched an all-out effort to win their votes.
Democrats seeing the light
The arrest of a state campaign chairman highlights potential problems for the law-and-order candidate
Faced with fending off the backlash from the Mark Foley scandal, House Republicans took the offensive Friday, asking Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to testify about whether they engaged in partisan trickery by releasing Foley's messages weeks before the midterm elections.
Officials with U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-election campaign blamed "dirty politics" and "Rovian tactics" for what they said was an online attack on their Web site as Connecticut voters headed to the polls Tuesday.
Immigration and ethics will be key themes of November's midterm elections, say the winner and loser of a special election to replace a jailed former California congressman.
The much hyped Democratic political wave could show its first sign of forming Tuesday in California's primary election, as San Diego voters choose a replacement for former GOP Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
Rep. Tom DeLay will drop out of his re-election race, two Republican congressional sources told CNN on Monday.
As Senate Democrats pressed President Bush to act with "openness and accountability" when he responds to questions about dealings with Jack Abramoff, a White House spokesman Tuesday remained reticent about Bush's contacts with the embattled lobbyist.
Worried Republican leaders from both the House and Senate cleared out staffers Wednesday for the first night of their three-day retreat on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to discuss their anxiety about the question of ethics.
Dr. Tom Coburn, a U.S. senator from Oklahoma for less than four months, last week was up to old tricks he started playing in the House a decade ago.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Sen. John Kerry, having escaped intact a one-hour grilling by NBC's Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" Sunday, slipped in the closing minutes.
Sen. John Kerry will pick up the endorsement of former Democratic rival Wesley Clark, a Democratic source told CNN, as Sen. John Edwards and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean tried to convince Wisconsin voters the Democratic presidential race isn't over.
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