After senators filibustered a gun background checks bill, President Obama gave an angry speech, promising that "we can still bring about meaningful changes that reduce gun violence so long as the American people don't give up on it." But according to a new Washington Post/ Pew Research Center poll, the American people are kind of over it.
The man who reportedly taped a private meeting between campaign aides for Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell — and then passed the recording off to Mother Jones — is looking for your help.
Ashley Judd won't be challenging Mitch McConnell for his Senate seat next year, but a leaked audiotape shows how the McConnell campaign considered all kinds of potential attacks—including bringing up Judd's mental health issues.
A heated op-ed from a Judd advisor on Monday suggests a report by Howard Fineman — on Judd's apparent comparison between challenging Sen. Mitch McConnell and enduring sexual assault at a private dinner — is fabricated. Here's what Fineman has to say about a kind of would-be Todd Akin-style moment that never was, and what it says about the state of 2014.
Buried in the news of a major Supreme Court case and effectively burying the hatchet on a contentious Senate bid before it even began, the actress-turned-philanthropist announced on Twitter that she has decided not to challenge Mitch McConnell in 2014.
Judd's rumored run for Senator of Kentucky isn't just rousing Republicans — it may be scaring big-time Democrats, too.
Judd knows she needs to convince party leaders that her perceived vulnerabilities — her Hollywood career, her outspokenness — can be turned into strengths in an expensive race. So she'll need the Democratic establishment to believe in her as much as she believes in herself... just as soon as both sides are ready.
It looks like the dirt-digging campaign might not have scared her off after all: According to an "insider" interviewed by Fox News, the actress is seriously considering running against Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell in 2014.
Should we care that the former actress and potential Senate candidate performed nude in several Hollywood films at the peak of her career in the 1990s? Here's the latest over-the-top controversy of a Kentucky race with no shortage of drama.
The tweets were obliquely racist — and even homophobic enough — to chime through the halls of the Capitol and even get potential candidate Ashley Judd to speak up.
Now that the old white guy at the Pentagon is set to be confirmed, the online conservative media seems ready to target a female movie star, no matter how thin the evidence.
Judd hasn't decided yet if she'll challenge Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014, but she's certainly laying the ground work for a potential campaign.
How worried is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about protecting his Senate seat in 2014? According to a new attack ad published today by McConnell's campaign staff, very worried.
Paul invoked the words "America" and "Congress" a lot in his alternative rebuttal delivered after Marco Rubio's GOP response to the President's State of the Union address.
Actress Ashley Judd and Indy Car driver Dario Franchitti are ending their marriage after 11 years, and, yes, the news impacts Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Why did two in five Democratic voters in Kentucky and Arkansas vote against President Obama in their states' primaries on Tuesday? Different theories have been floated. But one factor that can't be ignored is race.
President Obama easily won the Kentucky Democratic Primary last night, but the vote was much closer than it should have been considering he was running unopposed.
One man was shot and fires were set all across Lexington, but Kentucky fans mostly behaved themselves while celebrating their eighth national championship in basketball.
Also: Nike is suing Reebok for selling "unauthorized" Tim Tebow Jets gear.
As the death toll climbs from yesterday's record-breaking storms across the central and southern U.S., a miraculous discovery leaves many asking, "How?"
Barrels of bourbon produced by Kentucky distilleries outnumber the state's population
The two Iraqi refugees are accused of conspiring to transport Stinger missiles
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