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**FILE** Rep. Bruce Braley, Iowa Democratic Senate candidate, is seen here on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2014. (Associated Press)

Bruce Braley surges ahead in Iowa Senate race: poll

Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley has broken into the lead of the U.S. Senate race in Iowa with a 4 percentage point lead over Republican candidate Joni Ernst, found a new poll released Monday.

September 8, 2014
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) ** FILE **

Gabby Giffords’ gun control group runs ad to boost Ron Barber

Gabrielle Giffords' gun control group has made its first foray into the midterm campaigns, launching a TV ad to boost Democratic Rep. Ron Barber, her handpicked successor who is locked in a tight race in Ms. Giffords' old southern Arizona congressional district.

September 7, 2014
In this June 20, 2014, file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. The immigrants entered the country through an area referred to as zone nine. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Influx of illegal immigrant children presents challenges for U.S. schools

Central American children may be surging across the southwest border, but their effect is felt in school districts across the country — and nowhere more than in Alexandria, Virginia, where federal authorities this year placed 205 in a city of fewer than 150,000 people.

September 3, 2014
Thom Tillis

Kay Hagan, Thom Tillis ready for first debate in North Carolina Senate race

North Carolina voters already have seen plenty of Sen. Kay Hagan and state House Speaker Thom Tillis on TV, mostly in grainy video clips or freeze-frame photos that make them look either angry or foolish, as a barrage of attack ads muddy the airways in the state's hard-fought U.S. Senate contest.

September 1, 2014
defender: Some Republicans — most notably Sen. Jeff Sessions — have long argued an immigration deal leaves American workers worse off. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Republicans may shift immigration debate to protecting jobs

An effort is underway to push the Republican Party to rethink its close ties to business groups on immigration, with conservatives arguing that the way to fight immigration-reform proposals is to focus on how they would force Americans into a tougher competition for jobs.

August 31, 2014
A SWAT team unloads from armored vehicles as they go door to door while searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Police saddled with unwanted equipment amid militarization scrutiny

The sheriff's department in Chelan County, east of Seattle, figured it could use an armored vehicle to transport its SWAT team's response to thorny situations, thereby erasing the fear of taking fire as they sped into active shooter or barricade incidents.

August 28, 2014
**FILE** American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) President Richard Trumka addresses members during the group's quadrennial convention at Los Angeles Convention Center on Sept. 9, 2013. (Associated Press)

Labor boss pushes Obama for ‘bold’ action on immigration

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Thursday called on President Obama to take "bold" action with executive orders to ease immigration laws, including stopping deportations for most of America's roughly 11 million illegal aliens.

August 28, 2014
FILE - This Aug. 2, 2014 file photo shows demonstrators protesting at Freedom Plaza in Washington asking President Barack Obama to modify his deportations policies. The White House is crafting a blame-it-on-Congress legal justification to back up President Barack Obama's impending executive actions on immigration. Facing an expect onslaught of opposition, the administration plans to argue that by failing to provide enough resources to fully enforce U.S. laws, lawmakers have ceded wide latitude to White House to prioritize deportations, administration officials and legal experts said. But Republicans, too, are exploring their legal options for stopping Obama from what they’ve deemed an egregious presidential overstep. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Unions prod Obama toward executive action on immigration

Labor unions Wednesday increased pressure on President Obama to use executive action to ease immigration laws, saying that's the best hope for undocumented workers who are being exploited and mistreated by unscrupulous employers.

August 27, 2014
Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with a little help from his former running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan.

Mitt Romney takes ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and let his former running mate Rep. Paul Ryan dump the bucket of ice water over his head.

August 22, 2014