Gen. David Petraeus on Friday resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, saying in a statement that he had shown “extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.”

Mitt Romney’s loss on Tuesday has some people asking if the hundreds of millions of dollars conservative donors gave to Romney-backing outside groups could have been better spent patching up the crack in the Liberty Bell or something.

The newly re-elected Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL) is in plea deal discussions with federal investigators, who are probing his alleged misuse of campaign funds, The Chicago Sun-Times reported late Wednesday.

The top news executive of the broadcast company that aired election eve anti-Obama specials in several swing states defended the programs in an interview published on Thursday by a TV trade press website.

An Ohio local TV news anchor who participated in an anti-Obama program on the eve of election day took to social media on Tuesday to defend herself from critics. Yolanda Harris, an anchor at ABC affiliate WSYX in Columbus, insisted several times that she “had no choice in the matter.”

In the wake of a weekend order from the state’s Supreme Court, California’s campaign finance watchdog said Monday that it soon expects to reveal the names of donors behind an Arizona non-profit’s $11 million donation to ballot initiative efforts in the Golden State.