Politics

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert says "slavery was a blot" on the United States but the country is actually a lot worse off now because people are "openly rebelling" against God.

CNN host Candy Crowley on Wednesday stood her ground and refused to backtrack as a surrogate for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney insisted that she had been "wrong" to fact check the GOP hopeful's claim that President Barack Obama had not referred to the attacks in Libya as "acts of terror."

Stinging from his favorite football team's mostly awful season so far, New Orleans Saints superfan David Mancina decided to take matters into his own hands. In NOLA-speak, he's gone and sued dat.

CNN host Soledad O'Brien found herself needing a drink on Wednesday after former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told her that she worked for the Obama "groupie channel" because she refused to back down on CNN's fact check of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the prior night's debate.

Unlike his counterpart Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert insisted there was "nothing to see" Tuesday regarding Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) dust-up.

GOP hopeful Mitt Romney found himself backtracking during the second presidential debate after moderator Candy Crowley challenged his assertion that President Barack Obama had not referred to recent attacks on Americans in Libya as terrorism.

A question during Tuesday's presidential debate over the difference between current Republican candidate Mitt Romney and the last Republican president, George W. Bush, touched on both economic and social policy.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney responded to a question about job disparity between men and women in Tuesday's debate by pointing to his hiring record during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts.

During the second presidential debate on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney had a tense exchange over the production of oil on federal lands and waters.

After months of refusing to explain how he would implement his tax plan, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday told a debate audience that he would just "pick a number" to determine how many deductions Americans could take.

An adviser to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that part of the former Massachusetts governor's debate strategy on Tuesday night will be to ask President Barack Obama to "man up" and "accept his responsibility" for the terrorist attacks in Libya.

The director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization who is opposing anti-bullying efforts found himself on the defensive on Tuesday after a CNN host pointed out that his "hate speech" revealed an anti-LGBT agenda.

CNN host Anderson Cooper on Monday became the latest journalist to question so-called "studies" cited by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, to prove that their proposal could cut taxes without raising the deficit.