We don’t often agree with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, about issues, but he was spot on when he called for there to be cameras permitted in the hallowed chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Congress is heaping great praise on itself for passing a law banning insider trading and bringing more light to the financial transactions of federally elected officials.

All that Army National Guardsman Spec. Dennis Weichel knew when a group of children neared his convoy in March was that they could be in danger. The Afghan children, in a northeastern province, were in the area trying to retrieve shell casings at a firing range to sell for scrap.

By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that people arrested over traffic and other minor offenses can be strip-searched even if there is no reasonable suspicion that they are concealing weapons or contraband.

Pressure is mounting on Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to get out of the Republican presidential race, but it really doesn’t matter what they do.

With so many scientific issues becoming battlefields in the culture wars — from climate change to stem-cell research to evolution — we hardly needed a new study to tell us that scientists have become a favorite target of the right. Yet a paper written by University of North Carolina doctoral fellow Gordon Gauchat and published last week in the American Sociological Review also contains a highly counterintuitive finding.

Gov. Paul LePage won again Monday, bringing his perfect veto streak to 16-0.

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court did not exonerate state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin, and its opinion should not put the matter to rest.

To drill or not to drill, Baby? That is the question that is launching a thousand heated partisan debates early in this presidential campaign season.

Washington actually got something done. Our nation’s capital — usually the land of gridlock — agreed to a package of bills designed to encourage private investment in small businesses.