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…

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.

Florida is counting its final presidential ballots as President Barack Obama holds a narrow lead in the state.

Hispanic voted 71 percent in support for Obama, putting Republicans on notice that they must seriously court the nation's largest minority group if they want …