A poll released by Fox News late Wednesday revealed that former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts was leading the Republican pack looking to defeat President Barack Obama -- but former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani did best against the Democratic incumbent in general election match-ups.

The poll was taken by both Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research.

Sometimes a newspaper says something so silly, so blatantly, cockamamily wrong, I need 30 minutes in a rubber room to recover.

The 2011 budget deal brokered by Democrats and Republicans is pushing the national debt to a level that exceeds the entire U.S. economy.

A latest Treasury report predicts that the national debt will be 102 percent of the country's gross domestic product before this year is over.The last time debt surpassed GDP was during World War II.

One of the key debt drivers was last December's Capitol Hill budget deal, which added an estimated $858 billion to federal deficits over a decade. Some $410 billion is being piled on this year alone, said the Congressional Budget Office.

The Florida black bear, the brown pelican and 14 other species are set to be removed from the list of threatened species in Florida after a unanimous vote Wednesday by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The commission began a review four years ago of the list of threatened species in an effort to determine which animals were no longer at risk of extinction in Florida, looking at various factors indicating the risk to the animals survival, including overall population size and the size of the species range.

There's an awful lot that's stale in the debate on government energy policy.

A business plaintiff in the legal challenge to Obamacare saidopponents had "a good day" at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.

Presiding over a packed courtroom in Atlanta, a three-judge panel heard oral arguments from both sides over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

A coalition of 26 states, led by Florida and the National Federation of Independent Business, argued that the ACA's mandate requiring the purchase of health insurance was an unprecedented overreach of federal power.

Abortion opponent Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue and known to Floridians for his role in the Teri Schiavo case and his challenge of Jim King in a First Coast state Senate race, will campaign in Iowa this week. He plans to launch television ads in the Hawkeye State, attempting to raise the profile of his underdog bid to knock off President Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries.