Updated: 10:46 AM President Barack Obama has been sworn in for a second four-year term.

Updated: 7:51 PM Comedian Stephen Colbert's sister is running in earnest for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat.

Updated: 12:19 PM Former President George H.W. Bush has left a Houston hospital where he spent nearly two months recovering from an illness that began with a bronchitis-related cough.

Posted: 10:15 AM The White House says President Barack Obama is getting a fitness test at a Pentagon health clinic as part of a periodic medical exam coordinated by his doctor.

Posted: 11:43 AM Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper addressed his fellow Coloradans in Thursday's State of the State speech.

Posted: 6:56 AM The Obama administration is sitting down with gun owners groups -- including the National Rifle Association -- as officials look at ways to curb gun violence.

Posted: 6:02 AM Democrats take complete control of Colorado's legislature Wednesday when they gavel the 2013 lawmaking session to order.

Posted: 8:30 AM Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says that federal spending and the country's debt need to be prioritized ahead of any gun control legislation.

Posted: 8:00 AM Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in President Barack Obama for a second term later this month.

Posted: 12:05 PM Five days after the murder of 20 children and six faculty members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., riled the nation, President Obama announced the formation of a task force to provide immediate recommendations of how to reduce gun violence.

Posted: 8:17 AM President Barack Obama says he won't go after Washington state and Colorado for legalizing marijuana.

Posted: 2:03 PM U.N. ambassador Susan Rice is officially withdrawing her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, CBS News has learned.

Updated: 11:37 PM President Obama and Mitt Romney are putting the election aside and sitting down for lunch together.

Posted: 11:13 AM Florida finished counting its votes Saturday and declared President Obama the winner, narrowly edging Mitt Romney by a margin of 74,000 votes.

Updated: 11:37 PM Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is responding to Colorado voters approving Amendment 64, raising questions regarding federal law enforcement and distribution of proposed tax revenues.

Updated: 7:49 AM Democrats strengthened their hold on the Senate but failed Tuesday to recapture the majority in the House of Representatives they lost two years ago. President Barack Obama, in his freshly authorized second term, will face the same divided Congress in 2013 that has bedeviled efforts to enact his major legislation.

Updated: 11:26 PM Colorado voters have decided to legalize recreational use of marijuana. Late Tuesday night, Amendment 64 was leading by a margin of 53% in favor to 47% opposed.

Posted: 10:55 PM Voters in El Paso County passed an increase to sales tax Tuesday. About 60 percent of voters were in favor of the measure. Since it passed for every 10 dollars you spend, it will be about two cents more in El Paso County.

Updated: 7:49 AM Maine has become the first state to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote.

Updated: 10:18 PM President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican Mitt Romney in a hard-fought race in which the economy was the dominant issue.

Posted: 7:42 AM Inmates head to the polls to vote on Election Day.

Updated: 7:34 AM Both candidates plan to spend some time in their homes states today, as the voters head to the polls.

Posted: 7:31 AM Election Day is Tuesday, but 30 million people have already voted across the country.

Updated: 5:24 AM What would you do if a stranger asked to turn in your ballot for you? It's happening in some Colorado Springs neighborhoods. 11 News asked about the process after one viewer told us she was worried about it.

Updated: 7:17 AM It's the last weekend before the general election, and candidates are wasting no time reaching out to as many voters as possible.