Details about the shooter in Friday's horrific mass murder at an elementary school in Connecticut began to come out in bits and often conflicting pieces over the course of the afternoon.
A group of Alabama voters alleged in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday that a redistricting plan for the state House and Senate discriminated against minority voters and was passed with racist intentions.
Their evidence? Secret FBI recordings that captured racial comments by two state lawmakers who turned out to have been cooperating with a major investigation.
The application for tax-exempt status submitted to the IRS in the fall of 2010 by Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-linked dark money group, has been obtained and was published online Friday by ProPublica.
Voter ID laws were one of the most contentious issues of the past election season. (Here is everything you need to know about the laws.) Proponents insisted IDs should be required at polling places in order to thwart fraud. But there has been little evidence of such fraud and Democrats argued that the laws were meant to suppress voters.
Former Rep. Randall 'Duke' Cunningham in a Jan. 10, 2004 photo.
Former Rep. Randall "Duke" Cunningham, also known as federal prisoner #94405-198, has been released from prison in Arizona and into a halfway home in New Orleans, according to Bureau of Prison records.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) on Wednesday announced new rules that would force so-called "dark money" political organizations that operate in New York to report more details about their activities.
Attorney General Eric Holder said during a speech on Tuesday night at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library that it's time to consider setting national standards for how elections should be handled.
"A recent study by the MacArthur Foundation found that nearly 90 percent of those who voted in last month's election would support creating national voting standards," Holder said, according to prepared remarks. "That's why it is important for national leaders, academic experts, and members of the public to engage in a frank, thorough, and inclusive discussion about how our election systems can be made stronger and more accessible."
Miami businessman and accused fraudster Claudio Osorio
In August 2008, Claudio Osorio and his wife Amarilis hosted a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign at their multimillion dollar home on Miami's exclusive Star Island. Things went well. Michelle Obama was in attendance, and $400,000 was raised. A few weeks later, The Wall Street Journal noted the couple got special perks at the Democratic National Convention.
Less than five years later, the house is gone — sold at auction in November 2011 — and Claudio Osorio is facing federal charges for allegedly perpetrating a multimillion dollar fraud in which, authorities say, he lured investors in part by touting his political connections.
A hotel maid who claims she was brutally sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn has settled her civil action against the former IMF chief for an undisclosed sum, in a move that allows her to "move on with her life", lawyers said.
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) (R), with his wife Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson (2nd R), leaving a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on December 10, 2008.
Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson isn't ruling out running for the congressional seat that her husband resigned from last month.
"Never say never," Jackson told DNAinfo.com Chicago in an interview published Monday. "One never knows what the future may hold."
