The donation from Timothy Mellon of Saratoga brings to $3.6 million the total in donations to Gov. Jan Brewer’s legal defense fund

Louisiana Democrats are seizing on Sen. David Vitter’s role in a 2007 prostitution scandal for a new campaign attack ad that seeks to cut into the Louisiana Republican’s commanding lead over his election opponents.

Gov. Jan Brewer says she didn’t do as well as she wanted in her televised debate with challenger Terry Goddard.

While James Jay Lee was holding three hostage at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters, his image was broadcast to the world, catching the eye of an anti-abortion group that says it crossed once paths with him

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

A long-shot Senate candidate who claims Tea Party support was indicted on a sex charge this week, an accusation he calls “politically motivated.” 

As the Treasury Department considers a tax policy change that would allow trial lawyers to deduct their litigation expenses in contingency-fee cases, the American Medical Association and 90 medical organizations are urging Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to drop the proposal like a bad habit.

Middle East peace talks got under way Thursday for the first time in nearly two years with a violent reminder sent by the Palestinian terror group Hamas that it will try to torpedo any agreement struck in Washington between Israelis and the Palestinian Authority. 

A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out “racism” and “extremism” among Tea Partiers.

Federal prisons are failing to notify crime victims and witnesses when inmates are allowed to travel by themselves for medical treatment, the Justice Department inspector general said Thursday.