Politics

In a Tuesday interview with Soledad O'Brien, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) accused President Barack Obama's administration of covering up the facts behind last month's attack on a U.S. consulate building in Benghazi, Libya.

On Monday night, Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show," asked how exactly Republicans plan to punish women who get abortions if abortions are made illegal, and whether or not they intend to prosecute the victims of rape or incest if no exceptions are made for those unwanted pregnancies.

Anti-abortion crusader Randall Terry has released a video mocking Samuel L. Jackson as the "New Uncle Tom" for his complicity in so-called "black genocide" by supporting President Barack Obama.

Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi said Monday on Current TV that it was appropriate for Vice President Joe Biden to laugh at his Republican challenger Paul Ryan during last week's debate.

Father Thomas Reese, a Catholic Jesuit professor, told CNN on Monday that religious belief should not be used as the sole basis for laws, noting that the philosophically-inclined saints Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas actually believed prostitution should be legal, though they morally opposed it.

After Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign announced on Monday that the candidate had canceled his Thursday appearance on ABC's The View, media critic Howard Kurtz wondered how the former Massachusetts governor could stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin if he couldn't even take questions from Whoopi Goldberg.

The first release from a new "comedy super PAC" features actress Rosie Perez blasting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his joke saying that he'd "have a better shot" at winning the election if he were Latino.

Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Monday invited Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who shouted "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during his 2009 speech to Congress about health care, to comment on whether it was appropriate to call Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney a liar.

An Iowa pastor who has called for an Iowa judge to be removed because he voted to legalize same sex marriage recently used a sermon to castigate a woman for objecting to political activism at his church.

Adding one more conspiracy theory to his resume on Monday, Donald Trump suggested that President Barack Obama's team had concocted a "phony" 7.8 percent unemployment number and that the real unemployment rate could be as high as 21 percent.

While challenging former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani during an interview Monday morning, CNN's Soledad O'Brien got Giuliani to admit to framing discussion of the fatal attack on a U.S. consulate for political gain.

The son of a Republican Senate candidate in Wisconsin has apologized after he told a joke about sending Barack Obama to Kenya, suggesting that agrees with the so-called birthers who do not believe that the president is a U.S. citizen.

On the Sunday edition of "Fox & Friends," a member of Fox News Medical A-Team suggested that Vice President Joe Biden might be suffering from dementia based on his debate performance.