It's official. A tally of the Electoral College vote affirms President Barack Obama's re-election.

The House and Senate ushered in a new Congress Thursday, re-electing embattled Republican John Boehner speaker and hailing one of its own senators who returned

Texas delegation to the Electoral College will gather at the State Capitol to cast the state's 38 electoral votes for president and vice president.

Tradition trumped suspense Monday as members of the Electoral College cast the official, final votes in the 2012 presidential election, a constitutional

The next four years should be better than the last four. But American policymakers, newly re-elected President Barack Obama and a still-divided Congress could

Remarkable for its last-minute surge of contributions, the U.S. presidential election witnessed unprecedented sums of cash boosting two men in their quest for

The 2012 election was embarrassing for the Republican Party, and the biggest group of people pointing and laughing came from one of the largest voting blocs:

The crowds of happy people lighting joints under Seattle's Space Needle early Thursday morning with nary a police officer in sight bespoke the new reality:

Dictionary look-ups of malarkey represented the largest spike of a single word on the website by percentage, at 3,000 percent, in a single 24-hour period this

List reveals political battles were more important than celebrities this year in Yahoo searches.

Ah, Thanksgiving. A little turkey, some cranberry mold. Getting together with the cousins. Catching up beside the fire. Togetherness. On second thought:

It was a long, drama-filled presidential election, but at the end of the day, Americans could count on Vice President Joe Biden peppering in zingers and gaffes

It's not just the economy, stupid. It's the demographics — the changing face of America.

President Barack Obama, laying down his marker for grueling "fiscal cliff" negotiations, said Friday he won't accept any approach to federal deficit reduction

To get young voters to the polls this year, candidates had to get more creative than a 10-second attack ad before a YouTube video of the honey badger.