Feds subpoena Chris Christie's campaign, GOP

The New Jersey gov's re-election campaign and the state GOP received subpoenas related to investigations into the George Washington Bridge lane closures

• Jan 23, 2014

Edward Snowden: “Not all spying is bad”

However, former contractor who exposed secret surveillance programs maintains that NSA data collection is doing more harm than good

• Jan 23, 2014

Schumer offers Democrats a strategy to defeat tea party

The New York senator argues his party has failed to respond to the tea party's charge that government is the root of Americans' problems

• Jan 23, 2014

Cathy McMorris Rodgers to deliver GOP’s State of the Union response

As the top-ranking Republican woman in Congress, McMorris Rodgers will help the GOP highlight its commitment to winning over women

• Jan 23, 2014

Mike Huckabee: Democrats insult women with government handouts

The former Arkansas governor stirs up controversy suggesting that Dems think women can't "control their libido" without the government's help

• Jan 23, 2014

Michelle Obama, Subway partner to push healthier kids' meals

Subway will spend $41 million to revamp kids' menu and encourage them to eat more fruits and vegetables

• Jan 23, 2014

Texas congressman running for Senate goes AWOL

Rep. Steve Stockman, who is challenging Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican primary, has been all but absent from both Texas and Washington, D.C.

• Jan 23, 2014

Unemployed more likely to have health insurance now, poll finds

With Obamacare marketplaces open, Gallup finds the uninsured rates has fallen among jobless Americans

• Jan 23, 2014

Family Research Council president doesn’t rule out congressional run

Tony Perkins says that while he’s currently not interested in running for Congress from Louisiana, he’s learned to “never say never”

• Jan 23, 2014

Government panel urges end to phone data snooping

After reviewing NSA programs for four months, a sharply divided government task force urges Obama to stop bulk metadata collection

• Jan 23, 2014

Majority of Americans now support legal pot, poll says

For the first time since CBS News began asking the question, a slight majority of Americans support the legalization of marijuana use

• Jan 23, 2014

Is Mike Huckabee eyeing a 2016 presidential bid?

Headlining the RNC's winter meeting Thursday, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate is starting to phase out punditry in favor of politics

• Jan 23, 2014

Va. AG: Same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional

Attorney General Mark R. Herring officially joins a lawsuit challenging the state's 2006 ban on same-sex marriage

• Jan 23, 2014

Poll: Most think Edward Snowden should stand trial in U.S.

Most disapprove of the NSA leaker's actions and only a quarter of Americans think he should be granted amnesty, a new CBS News poll reveals

• Jan 22, 2014

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew again asks for timely debt ceiling hike

The U.S. will run out of borrowing authority by late February, sooner than Secretary Lew thought in December

• Jan 22, 2014

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