Members of both parties gathered Thursday to bid farewell to the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, the second longest serving senator in U.S. history.

Testifying before Congress Wednesday, Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist criticized the state's current Gov. Rick Scott for signing an election law that put "ridiculous restrictions" on voting rights.

Vivid new details of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were released Tuesday night by a federal committee trying to come to grips with the violence that led to the first murder of a U.S. ambassador since 1988 and the deaths of three other Americans.

Three State Department officials, including two who oversaw security decisions at the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, resigned in the wake of a review of security failures

Portraits of the victims lost at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school Friday. Six women who worked at Sandy Hook Elementary were killed, in addition to 20 students -- 12 girls and eight boys.

The nation will have a set of recommendations to address widespread gun violence within weeks, President Obama announced Wednesday.

President Barack Obama will announce his first concrete steps Wednesday in addressing the raging debate about gun policy.

Time Magazine has chosen President Barack Obama as its 2012 :Person of the Year, saying "We are in the midst of historic cultural and demographic changes, and Barack Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America."

In the fiscal cliff talks, Sen.Boehner made a new bet Tuesday by proposing what he called a plan B option to let tax rates go up on income above $1 million while keeping current rates for everyone else.

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are narrowing the divide between their positions while contending with discontent among their respective ranks.