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The justices on the Supreme Court know very well their rulings can send immediate political shock waves, and those just intensify in a presidential election year. Here are some landmark, presidential election-year legal disputes -- judicial blockbusters if you will -- handled by the Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court is prepared to take on an emotionally charged case: the massive health care reform legislation championed by President Barack Obama.

Fresh off a big win in Louisiana, Rick Santorum insisted Sunday that Republicans are rejecting the premise that rival Mitt Romney has virtually locked up the GOP presidential nomination.

Former President George W. Bush was happy that heart transplant surgery for his vice president, Dick Cheney, went well, according to a statement Sunday from Bush's spokesman.

GOP candidate Rick Santorum speaks to supporters in Wisconsin after his primary win in Louisiana.

In his Louisiana primary victory speech, Rick Santorum compares his run to Ronald Reagan in 1976.

President Barack Obama used his first visit to the demilitarized zone that splits the Korean peninsula to peer through binoculars into North Korea where flags flew at half-staff to mark the 100-day anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) SC assesses the state of the 2012 race and predicts that Mitt Romney will be the GOP nominee.

Kevin Pho says we should move forward with the Affordable Care Act for the sake of patients who badly need help

Jennifer Pahlka explains why she started a program that she likes to call a "Peace Corps for geeks."

CNN's Tom Foreman looks at the numbers in the GOP primary in Louisiana.

A senior White House advisor said Sunday that opening the nation's strategic petroleum reserve to bring down gas prices remains an option.

Rick Santorum won Saturday's Republican presidential primary in Louisiana by winning close to a majority of the vote. Santorum took 10 of the 20 delegates at stake while rival Mitt Romney picked up five, CNN estimates.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering Saturday evening after undergoing heart transplant surgery, his office said.

Roland Martin says if the boy had been white and wearing a hoodie, he would not have been a threat to be shot down. His death should renew the battle against bigotry

Ahead of a U.S. Supreme Court review of the health care reform law that many Republicans call "Obamacare," and a day after the law's two-year anniversary, Sen. Mitch McConnell used the GOP weekly address Saturday to hammer President Barack Obama over the measure.

The latest twist in the tug of war over Department of Justice documents central to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious came Friday evening, when a top Justice official refused a congressional request for subpoenaed documents and blamed GOP lawmakers over the leaking of sensitive information.

President Barack Obama travels to South Korea Saturday on a three-day trip centered on an international nuclear security summit in Seoul.

Rick Santorum has a very good chance of scoring a major victory in Saturday's Republican presidential primary in Louisiana, but the big question is whether it will still matter.

The Obama administration turned over 432 pages of e-mail communications and other documents Friday to congressional Republicans investigating the collapse of the solar energy firm Solyndra, the White House said.