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Shrinking near-term federal deficits, slowing health-care cost increases and partisan gridlock have all but wiped out the likelihood for a deal this year to reduce long-term U.S. deficits, perhaps delaying a compromise until after the 2014 midterm elections, White House officials and congressional lawmakers said.

Senator Max Baucus a Montana Democrat and chairman of the powerful Finance Committee has decided to not seek re-election next year ABC News has learned. It is a decision that surprised and angered some Democrats given his vote last week against expanding background checks in the gun debate ...

Sheldon Adelson, a wealthy casino owner, is committing to give at least an additional $10 million to conservative groups expected to play a major role in this years presidential and Congressional elections, cementing his growing role as one of the countrys leading political financiers.

With every election cycle comes cries from Democratic politicians about voter ID laws suppressing the black vote. But Fox News’ Ami Horowitz recently spoke with African Americans in Harlem who called that assertion nothing short of “very, very ignorant” and even “racist.”

The “Ami on the Street” filmmaker started out in liberal Berkeley, California, speaking with college students about