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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

The US Supreme Court declined Wednesday to issue a stay blocking a recent ruling by a federal judge invalidating a ban on same-sex marriages in Oregon.
GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $105 million to dozens of states to settle allegations that it unlawfully marketed its asthma drug Advair and the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin.
He’s been criticized by some members of his own party as boring and unable to defeat incumbent Republican Gov. Susana Martinez but New Mexico Attorney General Gary King won the Democratic primary Tuesday night — and he won it pretty handily.
Gov. Terry Branstad breezed to victory in his Republican primary contest on Tuesday, handily defeating conservative activist Tom Hoefling.
Gov. Robert Bentley moved a step closer to a second term tonight, easily defeating two little-known challengers to win the Republican nomination for governor, according to the Associated Press.
In the state Senate, Democrats hope to win back the supermajority they lost in March when one member took a leave to fight criminal charges.
Attorney General Martha Coakley has sued the Federal Housing Finance Agency and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for refusing to comply with a state law designed to stem the tide of foreclosures in Massachusetts.
Leading up to the last presidential election, the faux conservative host of The Colbert Report created a super PAC and a secretive “dark money” group on his show.
The demonstration ended with the arrests of 13 people charged with criminal trespassing, unlawful assembly and interfering with a public official or staff.
Democratic and Republican primary voters who haven’t already voted absentee will head to the polls today to pick their favorite candidates to square off in November’s general election.