(CNN) -- Mitt Romney knows he has a problem with African-American voters: Polls show they overwhelmingly prefer President Obama. A recent Gallup tracking poll showed just 5% of blacks supporting Romney, compared with 87% for the president.
JACKSON, Mississippi (CNN) -- A federal judge will decide Wednesday whether Mississippi's only abortion clinic can continue to stay open under a temporary order or whether it should permanently shut its doors under a new state law.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Gangs in Wichita are changing the way they operate, occasionally collaborating, creating challenges for officers trying to investigate crimes and diffuse tensions between rivals, according to Wichita police.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Texas state officials went to federal court Monday to defend a controversial new voter identification law, dismissing suggestions the requirement would deny hundreds of thousands of people -- many of them minorities -- access to the ballot.
(CNN) -- Episcopal priests would be allowed to conduct services blessing same-sex relationships under a policy up for final approval Tuesday at the church's national convention in Indianapolis.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama revitalized his push for holding down middle class tax rates Monday, calling on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A woman who witnessed the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy says she has agreed to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's new defense team.
ATLANTA (CNN) -- A reporter from El Salvador who has been reporting for years about immigration issues in Atlanta, Georgia, finds himself in a position similar to that of many of the sources he covers.
(CNN) -- Forget Social Security. The third rail of American politics is acknowledging we may not be the greatest country in the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Antonin Scalia drew unusually critical attention during this past Supreme Court term for comments he made in court and in his writing that seemed to some more political than judicial.