Mark Sanford had a special guest at his Congressional GOP runoff victory Tuesday night: his fiancée, Maria Belen Chapur.

In the opinion pages: The Wall… Read More

New York City's Empire State Building will shine blue Tuesday night in honor of the sixth annual World Autism Awareness Day. According to the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, the syndrome may affect at least one million children in the U.S. Read More

The National Rifle Association is wading back into the school safety discussion. Read More

NBC News has confirmed that Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has been asked by the White House to serve as an Ambassador, most likely to Japan. Read More

Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown looks at a major issue facing proponents of comprehensive immigration reform:  the level of difficulty connected to the… Read More

Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he is prepared to refrain from speaking at the university's School of Medicine commencement ceremony, after students and faculty petitioned over comments he made comparing homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia Tuesday. Read More

President Obama is heading south for a speech on the economy in Miami Read More

Forty years after the highest court in the land handed down its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, new restrictions in a string of states could send abortion back to the Supreme Court justices. Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards discussed the implications for women’s health on Andrea Mitchell Reports Thursday. Read More

In The Washington Post, E.J. Dionne discusses the gun debate and all the money funneled into the fight. Read More

From the Clintons on the left to Ohio Sen. Rob Portman on the right, more than a dozen influential party leaders have recently revised their position on gay marriage ahead of this week's Supreme Court oral arguments. Read More

It appears there are at least five votes to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, Pete Williams of NBC News has reported. Read More

David Petraeus, who resigned from his post as CIA director over an affair with his biographer last November, appears to be charting a new path for himself in the public sphere. Read More

While the Supreme Court may be ducking a "sweeping ruling" on gay marriage, Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin argued against the option of letting states decide whether same-sex marriage should be legal. Read More

The co-counsel for the legal team defending California's Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court Tuesday, Austin Nimocks, called for the court to "let the American people deal with [the issue of gay marriage] through their democratic institutions." Read More

President Barack Obama has chosen veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the first woman to become director of the agency that protects the president. Read More

In the opinion pages: Ted Olson & David Boies, the lawyers who launched the constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, detail in The Wall Street… Read More

During a Monday press conference in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that statements he made two weeks ago, which many took to be an accusation of the U.S. and Taliban conspiring to keep troops in Afghanistan, were misunderstood. Read More

Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Afghanistan Monday, the latest stop in his multi-nation trip throughout the Middle East and Arab region. Read More

The American public needs to focus on improvements in students' performances and results, not just shovel money into the nation's education system, said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder. Read More

President Obama called on the international community to help "shoulder the burden" of nearly half a million Syrian refugees living in neighboring Jordan. King Abdullah II said that to deny safe haven is "not the Jordanian way." Read More