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White House senior counselor John Podesta challenged the assumption that new rules on carbon emissions from power plants, which the administration issued this week, would be a problem for Democrats in the fall elections.

"There's no doubt polluters will come after this rule. They’ll try to attack it, and they’ll try to put it squarely in the political context of 2014," Podesta said at a

Massachusetts is getting close to passing new abortion clinic protections — to replace its old abortion clinic protections recently struck down by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court ruled last month that the Bay State's "buffer zone" law, which barred protesters from coming within 35 feet of abortion clinics, violated free-speech protections.

Massachusetts' legislature has

Newly re-elected, President Obama moved quickly on Wednesday to open negotiations with Congressional Republican leaders over the main unfinished business of his term — a major deficit-reduction deal to avert a looming fiscal crisis — as he began preparing for a second term that will include significant cabinet changes.

So many things about this election are unprecedented — and one of the most obvious is how much voters dislike the candidates. By now, everyone knows that this year features the two most unpopular presumptive major-party candidates on record. But in some ways, Americans' dislike of the presidential candidates isn't so remarkable. In fact, a recent report from the Pew Research Center shows that