High-tech workers could see smaller paychecks under an industry-led campaign to revise labor laws to limit overtime benefits. » read more

Determined not to be "the only chump" without a committee to collect "unlimited corporate money," satirist Stephen Colbert went to the Federal Election Commission last summer to petition for permission to form his own "super PAC." » read more

A proposed ballot initiative in November begs a key question looming over California's medical marijuana industry: Can stricter state regulation keep the federal government from shutting it down? » read more

Sitting in his pew at St. Louis Catholic Church in Miami one recent Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio heard the same homily as other parishioners who were urged by church leaders nationwide to contact Congress about the use of contraceptives. » read more

Republican Rep. Jeff Denham has a ranch in Atwater, a residence in Turlock and his wife and children with him in Northern Virginia. His Democratic opponent has a family in Houston, while he seeks election in California's San Joaquin Valley. » read more

A key House panel late Thursday gave the back of its hand to California's embattled high-speed rail program. In another sign of high-speed rail's political travails, the House committee writing a massive transportation bill included an amendment that prohibits new federal funds from going to California's proposed $98 billion project during the five-year life of the bill. » read more