2012

WASHINGTON — US celebrities weighed in on the race for the White House on election eve, endorsing their favorite candidates on Twitter or making last-ditch pleas for their followers to get out and vote.

On the eve of the 2012 elections, a state judge has ordered the release of Tennessee Rep. Scott DesJarlais' (R) divorce records so that they can be combed for any evidence related to DesJarlais' ethically dubious extramarital affair.

With days to go before the 2012 elections, Ohio Senate hopeful Josh Mandel is taking heat from an unexpected source: his in-laws.

NEW YORK — New Yorkers who have been driven from their homes by superstorm Sandy can vote at any polling station in the state not just their local center, governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday.

LIMA — Using maracas, coca leaves and a hallucinogenic brew, shamans in Peru got down to business Monday using pre-Columbian traditional ceremonies to pick a winner in the US presidential race.

Reports that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) declined an offer to appear alongside Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a campaign rally are false, according to one of the governor's advisers.

Republican poll watchers set to monitor locations across Pennsylvania Tuesday will be focusing their efforts largely in minority precincts, according to an analysis by the Service Employees International Union.

The Michigan Democratic Party announced Monday that it planned to file a complaint against the Michigan Republican Party and state Supreme Court candidate Colleen O'Brien over a "fraudulent" robocall that allegedly violated federal law.

FAIRFAX, Virginia — Mitt Romney will extend his 18-month presidential campaign into Tuesday so he can revisit ultimate battleground Ohio and Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania on election day, his campaign said.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday claimed that the policies of President Barack Obama endangered the values long upheld by Western civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition.

In a letter dated November 1, the White House responded to a 10-year-old girl who wrote asking how she should deal with schoolmates who make fun of her for having two fathers.

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs says Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie knew exactly what he was doing when he "literally slobbered over" President Barack Obama in to Hurricane Sandy.

Sen. Nina Turner (D-OH) excoriated Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in an interview Monday, accusing him of "arrogance" over his role in cutting voting opportunities for the state and calling him the "secretary of suppression."