Emily Mullen

Mediaite.com reported Friday night that during CNN's "The Lead," former Florida governor Jeb Bush told the show's host Jake Tapper he's impressed with how tight-lipped his brother, former president George W. Bush, has been over the past four years, which is unlike other former presidents and lawmakers.

Twelve-year-old Matthew Lannon, a sixth grader from Providence, RI, took to the stage Thursday night during a 12-hour hearing on the state's proposed marriage equality bill, which happens to be sponsored by Matthew's aunt, Sen. Donna Nesselbush (D-RI).

Five new anti-abortion amendments have been filed by Republican senators to their proposed budget resolution as part of the marathon voting session known as "vote-a-rama," The Huffington Post reported Friday.

The Steubenville guilty verdict spawned nearly as much rape apology as the original news of the case did, highlighting the point -- made by feminists like Zerlina Maxwell and Jaclyn Friedman -- that America has a long way to go before it gets past blaming victims and sympathizing with rapists.

Riders on a Greyhound bus bound for New York City were terrorized by an infestation of roaches that started to drop from the ceiling and crawl all over the seats and floor just minutes after the bus left Atlantic City, reported NBC 6 South Florida on Friday.

Texas Senator and Tea Party spokesman Ted Cruz has been caught in a huge contradiction regarding the Constitution and the proposed assault weapons ban bill, according to the blog People for the American Way.

In an interview with veteran journalist Bill Moyers on Friday, scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, described the dire need to reinvigorate communities across the globe in the fight against climate change -- a subject Leiserowitz says is as much a communications challenge as it is a scientific one.

A judge in the 9th Circuit Court ruled on Friday that "ultra-secret" national security letters (NSL) that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconditional violation of free speech, Wired.com reported on Friday

The Rev. Jonathan Meyer, a priest at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Indianapolis, is refusing to let the widow of a NASCAR enthusiast use the $9,600 black granite headstone she purchased to honor her late husband, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

The 68-year-old Long Island Republican, Rep. Peter King (NY), laced up his boxing gloves last night for a fight that had nothing to do with either budget cuts or charity.