Sen. Charles "Chuck" Grassley (R-Iowa) is asking his colleagues to eliminate U.S. Department of Education funding used to develop or implement the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Over 300 evangelicals representing 25 states gathered in the nation's capitol Wednesday for worship, prayer and meetings with members of Congress in an effort to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.

Members of an eight-member bipartisan group in the U.S. House of Representatives praised the recently unveiled immigration reform proposal of their counterparts in the Senate on Wednesday and said they expected to release a "reasonable, common-sense plan" of their own in a matter weeks.

Two years after a sexting scandal forced him to resign from Congress and toppled him from his frontrunner position in the race for New York City's mayoralty, Democrat Anthony Weiner is now the closest rival to the leading candidate in that race, the city's openly lesbian Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

The U.S. Senate rejected Wednesday an amendment aimed at strengthening the nation's laws on background checks to purchase a firearm.

In a press briefing delivered at 12:15 p.m. EST, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confirmed the recent news that letters containing the bio-toxin Ricin addressed to President Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) had been intercepted at an off-site testing facility.

President Obama on Tuesday endorsed a plan put forward by a bipartisan group of senators for a sweeping overhaul of the immigration system that maps a 13-year pathway to citizenship for almost 11 million undocumented immigrants, saying it is "largely consistent" with his own principles for reform.

A progressive activist who heads an organization that tracks gender bias in American media believes that sexism in the news is a "widespread problem."

In what is viewed as the most sweeping overhaul in immigration law in at least the last 26 years, a bipartisan group of eight senators unveiled a bill on Tuesday that will map a 13-year pathway to citizenship for almost 11 million undocumented immigrants.

House minority Whip Steny Hoyer, a Democrat, is generating criticism after making controversial statements Tuesday regarding yesterday's tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon and the automatic spending cuts which took hold in the federal government in March.