Clare Kim

Wendy Davis, a rising Democratic star, said she will seek the governorship of a state where Republicans have held every statewide office since 1994 and her party's candidate has not been elected governor since 1990. Read More

Sergeant Dakota Meyer, a Medal of Honor recipient, is ruminating a potential run for Congress after his disappointment over the federal government's shutdown. Read More

More than 30 faith leaders--Christian, Jewish, and Muslim--sent a letter to Congress, criticizing lawmakers for a shutdown that could "punish the middle class, and deeply harm our most vulnerable neighbors." Read More

Wendy Davis focused her remarks on the economy, health care, and education at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin Sunday, pivoting away from the abortion issue that launched her recent political celebrity. Read More

The United States and Turkey unveiled the formation of a Global Fund on Community Engagement and Resilience which will "leverage public and private funding to support local, community-driven efforts to counter violent extremism." Read More

A New Jersey judge ruled Friday that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry, saying that not allowing to do so would deny same-sex couples the rights now guaranteed by the federal government. Read More

Despite modest gains in the economy in 2012, national poverty rates remain virtually unchanged from last year. However, a new study highlights one group that has unexpectedly fallen deeper into poverty: elderly women. Read More

Stacey and Caleb Lihn tell how their 3-year-old daughter's life would have been in jeopardy without the health care law. Read More

The 41st President was an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends over the weekend. Read More

Russia's president, in a New York Times op-ed, says he wants peace, that Syrian rebels were the ones who used chemical weapons, and that it's "dangerous" for Obama to encourage American exceptionalism. Read More

A state board in Arkansas has voted to allow 13 school districts to continue using teachers, administrators and other staff as armed guards. One district gives participants $1,100 each to buy a handgun and holster. Read More

Whether Bill de Blasio has managed to avoid a run-off with the second-place Bill Thompson was still unknown in the early hours of Wednesday. The sex-scandal candidates, Spitzer and Weiner, lost. Read More

Russia has asked the International Olympic Committee for help in battling a “campaign” against the country's anti-gay law that has sparked protests against the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, less than six months away. Read More

The latest Pew poll shows that the Assad regime's alleged breach of President Obama's "red line" has done very little to shift public opinion. Read More

The former basketball star Dennis Rodman returned Tuesday to North Korea, where he said he plans to visit "my friend" Kim Jong Un. Read More

Hollywood stars including Oprah, Forest Whitaker, and Jamie Foxx commemorated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial. Read More

With less than two weeks until the primary election, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio surges ahead of the Democratic pack for New York City mayor. Read More

"I don't want them to think I am suspicious," says Walters. "That's something you shouldn't have to be paranoid about. I shouldn't have to be afraid of my commute." Read More

Five decades after the historic March on Washington, a slim majority of Americans believe that Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has not been realized. Read More

A school clerk was able to calm a gunman who sneaked into an Atlanta-area elementary school with an AK-47 and close to 500 rounds of ammo. Read More