SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- For years, running for office as a Republican in California boiled down to one core pledge, bound by a candidate's signature and enforced with a vengeance: no new taxes.

Not anymore. The state's new political landscape, ...

LOS ANGELES -- It was the end of a long day in a stuffy Simi Valley office building. Ann Romney had been under oath for more than four hours, testifying in a sometimes contentious deposition about a pricey horse she sold that may or may not have ...

LAFAYETTE, La. -- Visitors to this oil town might be forgiven for wondering whether the BP oil spill and subsequent drilling moratorium ever happened. "Now hiring" signs are plastered on billboards around town, and hotels such as the Crowne Plaza ...

MEXICO CITY -- They are Mexico's "democracy babies" -- a generation that grew up just as the nation broke free of decades of all-encompassing one-party rule.

Only 12 years ago, young people flocked to the polls with high hopes as part of what ...

WASHINGTON -- Ethnic and religious loyalties can kick-start a congressional challenge, San Joaquin Valley, Calif., races show, but crossing the finish line takes more.

Vividly illustrating the Valley's diversity, three high-profile, first-time ...

WASHINGTON -- In a first term marked by clear partisan divisions, President Barack Obama's decision to order a high-risk special forces operation targeting Osama bin Laden stands out as an unquestioned nonpartisan success.

But the one-year ...