WASHINGTON -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) got a promotion on Thursday. She now has a seat at the Senate Democratic leadership table and, in a role created just for her, she will serve as a policy adviser and voice for progressives.

Her colleagues have no idea why this is happening.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) says he would support renomination for Georgia's beleaguered judicial nominee Michael Boggs next year. But he's not exactly vowing to fight to make that happen.

Isakson conceded Wednesday that Boggs has little chance of getting confirmed this year to the U.S. District Court for...

WASHINGTON -- Many people have never heard of Leonard Matlovich. I hadn't until today. But it was his tombstone that I used to jog by a couple of times a week just to read the words on it, because he left one hell of a parting message to the world.

WASHINGTON -- It's only been a week since the 2014 elections, but the National Organization for Marriage is already vowing to defeat Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in 2016 over his support for same-sex marriage.

Portman, who is up for re-election in 2016 and whose name has been floated as a...

WASHINGTON -- A day after Republicans swept control of the Senate, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued a plea to his party: Keep current filibuster rules in place, even though we hated it when Democrats pushed through reforms last year.

“Simply put, if Republicans re-establish the judicial-nomination filibuster, it would remain...

WASHINGTON -- They knew they were about to get clobbered, but there they sat in front of the TV cameras, all smiles, exuding optimism that something -- come on, anything -- might go their way later Tuesday night.

"They have done 41 million voter contacts," Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), chairman...

WASHINGTON -- Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R) vowed Thursday to keep fighting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriage in his state, even as that effort costs Idaho tens of thousands of dollars.

"I'm not ready to surrender to a few folks in black robes," Otter said during a...

WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opposes mandatory quarantines for people who visit Ebola-affected countries. The Defense Department is requiring troops who visit those areas to undergo a 21-day quarantine. Governors, meanwhile, are putting forward their own quarantine policies in their states -- some voluntary, some mandatory....

WASHINGTON -- The Islamic State may be the most immediate challenge facing the Defense Department, but Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that one of the biggest long-term security threats to the U.S. isn't a terrorist group. It's climate change.

"From my perspective, within the portfolio that I have responsibility for...

WASHINGTON -- It was just two weeks ago that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was saying lawmakers need to listen to health experts when it comes to imposing flight restrictions on Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa.

Not anymore.

During a Tuesday interview with Fox News'...

WASHINGTON -- The National Organization for Marriage launched a new ad Tuesday criticizing Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) for voting to confirm a federal judge who went on to strike down the state's ban on same-sex marriage this month.

But what the ad fails to mention -- aside from the fact...

WASHINGTON -- Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said Tuesday that he wants to "find a way" to provide health insurance to the state's 70,000 uninsured, even though he vetoed legislation in April that would have done just that -- and at no cost to the state.

During a gubernatorial debate,...

WASHINGTON -- Cpl. Natalie Murray has been a member of the Canadian Armed Forces for 27 years. She is a radar technician, and she has been deployed as far away as Bosnia to put her specialized training to use. That was in 2002.

About a year later, she transitioned from...

WASHINGTON -- One of the most unpredictable outcomes of a GOP takeover of the Senate, which is looking likely, is the fate of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees.

Republicans, who have been systematically delaying action on nominees all year, would have the ability to block any of Obama's...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is following up on its January pledge to help the long-term jobless.

A big part of that pledge was getting businesses to agree they wouldn't discriminate against job applicants who had big gaps on their resumes, something research revealed to be...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) says the United States shouldn't allow anyone into the country who has been in the West African region facing an Ebola outbreak.

"I do believe that we should cease to allow people who have been in the three countries in West Africa, we should...

WASHINGTON -- Minnesota's gubernatorial candidates are not fans of allowing transgender high school students to participate in sports based on their gender identity, a policy currently being considered by the state's high school league.

During a Wednesday night debate, the moderator raised the issue, posing what he said was "by...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Chris Johnson is a senior at North Carolina Central University, a historically black university in Durham. In November, he’s planning to vote for Kay Hagan for Senate. Not that he knows who she is.

“I just vote Democratic,” Johnson shrugged.

“Same,” said his friend, John Jones, also...

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden took a shot at former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday night for his 'inappropriate" criticisms in a new book of President Barack Obama's strategy in Syria.

During remarks at the Harvard Institute of Politics, an audience member asked Biden if he...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Wednesday appealed to the global community to help the United States bring down Islamic State militants, saying it will take a broad coalition "to dismantle this network of death."

In remarks before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Obama conveyed a strong...