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.

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

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

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.” 

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. 

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.

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.

Failed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene sued the St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald on Wednesday, claiming they published knowingly false articles timed to damage his chances of winning.