Presidential races

According to an aide, fundraising for the first quarter of 2013 was better than the sum of all 2012 fundraising.

Santorum was hospitalized in South Carolina for a "gastro-intestinal illness and dehydration."

The pro-Obama group Organizing for Action has a message to its supporters: Call your senators to lobby for gun control.

The organization emailed supporters on Sunday asking them to pledge to call their senators on Tuesday to ask them to back the background check bill proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).

The Maryland governor's early claim on the Democratic Party’s left flank could be equal parts advantageous and detrimental.

Members of the Republican National Committee adopted resolutions affirming the party's position without discussion on Friday.

EMILY's List, a group that works to elect pro-abortion-rights women to public office, is launching an effort to elect a female president — what's likely an early effort to encourage Hillary Clinton to run in 2016.

The second-term Maryland governor touts his legislative achievements as reasons why he's mentioned as a potential White House contender. 

Potential Republican presidential contender Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned on Wednesday during his Howard University speech that, had they not been "extraordinarily lucky," both Presidents Obama and George W. Bush could be in jail for drug use.

Speaking at historically black Howard University, the Kentucky senator sought to explain past comments on the landmark 1964 legislation. 

A group backed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) is up with TV ads slamming Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for his opposition to expanding background checks on gun purchasers.