Ben Carson apologizes for "hurtful" comments on gays

The likely Republican presidential candidate posts a Facebook mea culpa for comments he made in a TV interview

• Mar 5, 2015

Could Jim Webb pose a threat to Hillary Clinton in 2016?

The former Democratic senator from Virginia appeals to progressives on foreign and economic policy, but that's only half the story

• Mar 5, 2015

Hillary Clinton to State Dept.: Release my emails

GOP signaling it intends to make messages she sent from private account while secretary of state an issue if she runs for president

• Mar 5, 2015

Have the goals of the civil rights movement have been achieved?

CBS News poll surveyed Americans on what has been achieved by the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act 50 years after Selma

• Mar 4, 2015

Van Hollen running to succeed Mikulski

The Maryland congressman will look to jump to the upper chamber of Congress

• Mar 4, 2015

House Benghazi panel subpoenas Clinton's email

Rep. Trey Gowdy, the panel's chair, wants more access to the former secretary of state

• Mar 4, 2015

Holder details "racial bias" by Ferguson cops

"It is time for Ferguson's leaders to take immediate, wholesale and structural corrective action," the attorney general says

• Mar 4, 2015

Christie: Higher pension payments in N.J. could mean higher taxes

"That is, to me, an untenable and unacceptable situation," the governor says of higher taxes

• Mar 4, 2015

Jeb Bush owns his email server, too

Along with Hillary Clinton, the former Florida governor used a private email account and server for goverment business

• Mar 4, 2015

Rubio and Lee pitch rate-cutting tax plan

The senators unveiled what they call a pro-growth, pro-family tax plan

• Mar 4, 2015

Obamacare case divides Supreme Court

The Supreme Court was sharply divided Wednesday in the latest challenge to President Obama's health overhaul

• Mar 4, 2015

Senate fails to override Obama's Keystone pipeline veto

Republican-led chamber couldn't get the votes necessary to override Obama's rejection of the bill

• Mar 4, 2015

Ben Carson: Prison turns "a lot" of straight people gay

Carson, a Republican eyeing a run for the White House in 2016, was asked whether he believes being gay is a choice

• Mar 4, 2015

John Dickerson: Hillary Clinton's emails: Command, control, delete

How Clinton's team responds to questions about her private email account will tell us a lot about how the Clinton White House would operate

• Mar 4, 2015

General Petraeus could avoid jail time over scandal

Ex-CIA chief's guilty plea for sharing classified information with his biographer and mistress still has to be approved by judge

• Mar 4, 2015

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