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The speech catapulted Cuomo onto the national scene and cemented the three-time New York governor as one of the last avatars for New Deal liberalism.

As the presidential campaign has unfolded, the candidates have traded polemics about wealth, class warfare, taxes, dependency and the role of government.

Gary Kreep is the newly elected San Diego Superior Court Judge who has serious doubts about the citizenship of President Barack Obama. About a month before the Primary election, the San Diego County Bar Association issued a press release which said Gary Kreep was not qualified to be a judge. Kreep responded by calling the SD County Bar Association "bigoted." Now the President of the bar association says their rating was "fair and unbiased."

In the nine months since being given the legal right to serve openly in the military, gay service members are increasingly speaking out about the double lives they led under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.

A federal court will hear a case Thursday that is considered to be the first serious challenge to the law, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages. The plaintiffs argue that the government can't just ignore some marriage certificates and recognize others and that the law is unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a state-mandated requirement that prospective voters in Arizona provide proof of citizenship to be able to register to vote in national elections. But some experts are concerned that the court may have inserted a few "poison pills" in its opinion that would damage voting-rights protections someday down the road.

Medicare Administration Dr. Donald Berwick will now eat his own health insurance cooking. He started signing up for coverage earlier this week and hopes to have his Medicare card within a few weeks. He said he's getting no special treatment in the application process.

Unemployment remains stubbornly high, but the 9.1 percent rate doesn't include the millions of Americans who are no longer looking for jobs. The Labor Department calls them "discouraged workers," and they include everyone from old factory workers to preschool teachers.

CNN positions itself as the cable news channel that sticks to the facts — distinguishing itself from rivals MSNBC on the left and Fox News on the right. But CNN host Lou Dobbs has put his employer on the defensive by focusing on repeated, unfounded claims that President Obama wasn't born in the U.S.

The GOP wave swept dozens of Democrats out of Congress -- and just a couple of Republicans. The most prominent was South Carolina's Bob Inglis, who tells host Guy Raz why he thinks the conservative movement has been hijacked and jokes about what it feels like to be "chairman of the local losers club."