Severely cutting the retail window hours of 13,000 of the least-used post offices is a way for the U.S. Postal Service to address its serious funding shortage. But many Americans no doubt see it as the lesser of two evils.

Women have been voting in presidential elections since the 1920s, but rarely have their ballots been more decisive than the recent election.

On election night, a couple of hours before President Barack Obama was declared the victor, Bill O’Reilly offered his explanation for why Mitt Romney was about to lose.

Gov. Paul LePage has not said much since his party took a beating at the polls earlier this month, but from the few comments he has made we do not expect much change in his approach.

Is Grover Norquist really going to let John Boehner get away with this?

Environmentalists who are against building the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast have called a march on Washington this weekend to demand that President Barack Obama again reject it.

House Republicans elected Ken Fredette to be their leader on Wednesday, after he promised to reach out to constituent groups such as women and young people whose votes put the Democrats back in power in Augusta.

After his state became one of two where marijuana legalization was approved by voters last week, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper warned that “federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug, so don’t break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly.”

Apparently, the only person who really didn’t know which party’s caucus

NEW ORLEANS — It is tempting, oh so tempting, to unleash the snark as the script unfolds: Real Housewives of Tampa. Or is it Real Generals of Kabul?