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This just released from the NATO command in Afghanistan: Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopters were involved in what was believed to

In recent weeks more than 60 people -- including seven police officers -- have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.

While you were rending your garment over Chas Freeman, this is happening, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman: The U.S. government still

Watch out for simplistic reporting on a new study on the impact of climate change legislation on the Midwest. So far, reports on the study are

Sen. Charles Schumer says there are enough votes in the Senate to pass an immigration bill.

We’re not trying to supplant or replace RedState or Townhall, John Solomon said. We love those sites.

Though Exxon Mobil initially insisted that the pipeline that ruptured and spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River this month carried only low sulfur crude from Wyoming, the company has now acknowledged that the pipeline is used to transport tar sands crude from Alberta. Oil from the Canadian tar sands is produced by melting asphalt-like deposits and must be diluted with lightweight and volatile chemicals in order to flow through pipelines. Tar sands oil is known to be more corrosive that other types of crude and it contains more heavy metals

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports that the strangest thing about Sen. John McCain’s rally in Columbus, Ohio, was California

Credit card companies might be unpopular, and reform legislation might be inevitable. But, as Democratic leaders have learned this month, that doesn’t mean

In Boulder, there is little debate over the cause of climate change.

As I reported last week, the Government Accountability Office has been reviewing for months a protest against a contract to train the Afghan police that

As indicated yesterday, President Hamid Karzai has embraced a runoff presidential election in a Kabul press conference. The Afghan election commission has set

In congressional testimony on Friday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency was again criticized for its proposed numeric nutrient criteria, a set of standards to regulate pollution from nitrogen and phosphorus in Florida waterways. But EPA representatives defended the agency’s decision to implement the standards, arguing that they are needed for the health and safety of citizens and businesses struggling to survive in harsh economic times. # The decision to force the state to implement a stringent set of nutrient criteria came as the result of legislation — but both the EPA and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection had for years been attempting to draft something similar

Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today asking her not to prejudge the outcome of an Obama administration review of a

I’d like to know what Kyle Smith thinks of Will Ferrell’s one-man play about former President George W. Bush. Instead, the New York Post’s writer spends eight

Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security, one of the advisers for Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy review, doesn’t know if Ahmed Wali

Though Michigan continues to lack many legislative victories that are seen as important by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents, the state is also seeing the rise of more openly gay elected officials on the local levels. In 2008, Detroit saw the election of Charles Pugh as Detroit City Council president, making him the first openly gay black man to hold such a post in the country. Ferndale resident Craig Covey became the state’s first openly gay mayor and has since moved to the Oakland County Commission

A security guard at DTE Energy’s Fermi 2 nuclear power plant shot himself in the foot yesterday while putting away his weapon.

Accused by a former business partner of being a “news wuss” and by one of his former editors of lacking “journalistic standards, ethics and principles,” Denver Daily News and Vail Mountaineer owner Jim Pavelich took the high road today in announcing he was shutting down both newspapers. “I’d like to thank all the advertisers who supported us,” Pavelich told the Vail Daily , a paper Pavelich founded in 1981 and sold for millions 12 years later

Laura Rozen reports that Harold Koh’s nomination for State Department legal adviser has just overcome a major Senate hurdle: Cloture passed on a 65-31 vote,

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as