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In a Twitter rant last month, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sounded-off against current Secretary of State John Kerry for comments he made in a speech to students in Jakarta, Indonesia, going as far as to ask John Kerry to resign from his position as Secretary of State.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Thursday that the Obama administration's "naA ve fantasy of a 'good Russia'" has been abruptly shattered by President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine.

The head of the Cook County Republican Party wants 8th congressional district candidate Manju Goel to withdraw from the primary race after a deceptive website and misleading social networking accounts were set up to discredit her opponent, Larry Kaifesh.

Republican political strategist Phillip Stutts says the party needs to choose its words very carefully to avoid giving Democrats ammunition for employing tactics such as the GOP "war on women" narrative.

It's been quite a legislative session in Arizona. First, the Legislature passed a bill that, in effect, gave businesses the right to discriminate against gay couples.

If you're looking for a 9 - 5 job, working as a journalist or an editor at a political publication is not for you.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 9, 2011 -- On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth so deep that the sole may have irritated his lower intestine.

Today in America, we find ourselves at the convergence of several critical policy challenges that together are having an impact on the American economy and our collective interest in ensuring an expanding middle class.

The night before the state dinner for French President Franois Hollande last month, Michelle Obama slipped out of the White House for dinner at Le Diplomate, the new French bistro on 14th Street NW.

Sayonara Politico . Ginger Gibson , a congressional reporter for Politico , is leaving the suburban Arlington news outlet for 720 Strategies.

Ohioans surfing the web this week may see ads railing against Secretary of State Jon Husted, but they're not from his Democratic challenger, state Sen. Nina Turner.

BRADENTON, Fla., March 6, 202012 -- If you could really scrape below the surface of objective reality and peer into the unconscious minds of Republicans who will vote today in 10 states for their choice of presidential nominees, which of the key issues in the campaigns of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Sanctorum would really be ... (more)

Obama comments to reporters on the situation in Ukraine before meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will strike a firmly populist tone in his 2015 budget plan on Tuesday, proposing to pay for an expansion of a popular tax credit for the working poor by ... (more)

Republican congressional candidate David Jolly shakes hands and meets with residents as he and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio visit the Lake Seminole Square retirement center in Seminole Monday afternoon .

In 1995, for instance, after a stint in the Clinton administration at the Office of Management and Budget, he chided the president he had just served - and then House Speaker Newt Gingrich - for budgets that he said were not daring enough on Social Security benefits - either in cutting costs or making more money available to the needy.

"He's probably the linchpin of their representational strategy," said Michael Copps, a former Federal Communications Commission member who opposed the 2011 Comcast-NBCUniversal merger and is now with the watchdog group Common Cause.

Former Washington Post managing editor Robert Kaiser is retiring at age 70, and he's very cranky about how conservatives have destroyed government and Washington collegiality.

Violence is escalating between protesters and police after Yanukovych ditched a deal with the European Union in favor of one with Russia.

Last week, I described an important state government reform - direct election of the attorney general, treasurer and secretary of state - that should have happened 100 years ago when we began choosing U.S. senators by popular vote.