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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's survival in a recall election sparked by steps to weaken public unions could embolden fellow Republicans in other states to seek similar measures. "He's one of the Republican governors who has been out on the point on this issue about whether there are excesses in public employee unions in terms of their pension plans or health care plans and so forth," noted CNN

Polls open at 7 a.m. local time (8 a.m. ET) in Wisconsin, where the bitter battle over whether to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker is finally coming to a conclusion.

Walker faces Milwaukee's Democratic mayor, Tom Barrett, in recall election. As our colleague Liz Halloran reports over on It's All Politics and NPR's Don Gonyea said on Morning Edition, pre-vote polls have varied — with

Close to the end of the March 25 testimony in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial for his role in the April 25, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, the government submitted a series of exhibits with chats from the defendant. One described wanting President Obama to win the Presidential election as the “lesser of two evils” but asserting “killing Muslims is the only promise [Obama or Mitt Romney] will

A new social networking policy just approved by a small Tennessee town has some questioning if the move infringes on the First Amendment.

South Pittsburg, on the banks of the Tennessee River, is a town of just over 3,100 people. At the town’s most recent monthly meeting on December 9, the city council approved a measure that would restrict any employee, elected official, contractor or