Political Campaigns

Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick came to Baltimore Monday to promote their latest documentary, "Prohibition," which debuts Oct. 2 on PBS.Burns is not only the greatest documentarian of the day, but also the most influential filmmaker period. That...

Fullerton police fatal beating: Several hundred protesters descended on the Fullerton Police Department on Saturday morning, the latest in a series of public expressions of outrage over the death of a homeless man after an altercation with six police...

TALLAHASSEE – Brace yourselves, because the high-priced spin-doctors want to have it both ways with Florida's economic insecurity. Republicans want to pummel President Barack Obama for the state's higher-than-average unemployment, while they're also...

Assemblyman Jose Solorio (D-Santa Ana) said Sunday that the FBI notified him Friday that Durkee might have embezzled from his campaign. He declined to comment further on the details pending Durkee’s arraignment Tuesday....

More than a third of the customers, politicians and business leaders who praised Florida Power & Light at three South Florida forums on a proposed $1.3 billion rate hike have financial or family ties to the company and its employees, a Sun Sentinel...

A new ethics code being drafted for Broward County commissioners amid a growing corruption scandal will rein in their influence and require greater disclosure of their business dealings. A task force assigned with writing a code of conduct agreed...

They helped Rod Blagojevich ascend to the top of state government, and they cooperated with federal agents in bringing him down. In between, the three former confidants made lucrative careers for themselves by trading on their access to the Democratic...

Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...

The Glendale News-Press editorial ("The whole truth will shine through soon," Jan. 1) and many individual letters are asking how City Council members can claim not to have known that large amounts of their contributions were coming from businesses who...

When it comes to money in politics, the new normal is already on vivid display. It could be seen last week in posh restaurants and corporate townhouses on Capitol Hill, where politicians held fundraisers at a record pace. It was evident at Washington's...

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, have separated, with Shriver moving out of their Brentwood mansion while the two determine the next step in their 25-year marriage. Shriver has been residing apart from the actor-turned-...

It's not something that you might think of when you go to the library, but a KU librarian is researching ways to preserve bumper stickers. Whitney Baker says scholars from all over the world study the stickers to gain insight on political campaigns or...