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NPR published a detailed investigative story yesterday on mining safety that finds safety and health violations by operators of underground coal mines have

Although he’s no longer in the race, the presidential campaign of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty disclosed that it’s still mired deep in debt this week. The debts reported on the campaign’s quarterly disclosure officially sit at $453,841, with the quarter closing at the end of September

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reminds us that today is the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Boumediene v. Bush, which confirmed

At last count, seven states have cut funding for reproductive services administered by Planned Parenthood, whose reputation has taken a beating from

The Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute Monday released a study showing that the budget proposed by Governor John Hickenlooper could eliminate about 3600 Colorado jobs. Most of the lost jobs would be in education, the report claims, but it says there will also be lost jobs in mental health, prisons, health care and parks

Some senators balked at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to attach the DREAM Act, a measure that would help some students become legal residents, to

For those, like former Vice President Dick Cheney, who want to argue that CIA torture worked, a footnote on page six of the 2004 CIA inspector general’s

The anti-abortion National Right to Life Committee last week spoke out in support of a new abortion bill filed by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami

All of the West Virginia Republican lawmakers’ brouhaha over including the so-called Capito Amendment in the state legislature’s compromise bill authorizing a

A slight majority of Minnesotans support the effort to amend the Minnesota Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, according to the Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll . About 48 percent of Minnesotans support the amendment voters will judge on the November 2012 ballot, 43 percent are opposed to the ban and 8 percent are undecided. The poll shows that people under 34 overwhelmingly rejected the amendment, 58 to 33 percent, and Minnesotans over 65 overwhelmingly approved of the ban at 70 percent to 26 percent.

I don’t have any more yet, but the early speculation on the cable networks is that Iran’s very belated disclosure of its nuclear facility under construction

Dave Roberts thinks so. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) unlikely support for comprehensive climate legislation represented the best hope for passage of a

President Obama, just now: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and has become a tremendous recruiting tool for

As part of its The Day Before event on climate and national security, the nonpartisan national security think tank the American Security Project released a new

Speaking a George Bush Institute conference in Dallas, California’s recent losing GOP candidate for governor Meg Whitman said the GOP has it all wrong on immigration–or at least has the language wrong. She told blogger Ruben Navarette, Jr., who writes at pajamasmedia.com , that demonizing Latinos is not the way to go if Republicans want to lead on the issue.

Travis Pillow, who has been owning the Florida oil spill beat of late at our sister publication The Florida Independent, reported yesterday that Gov. Charlie

Following up on Spencer’s post, I don’t feel too sorry for Jay Bybee or John Yoo, the lead lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel who

The Democrats pushing for comprehensive health care reform this year got a boost yesterday when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the

Here’s a headline that’s a sign of the times: More Workers Needed for NJ Unemployment Claims. The Associated Press story, which ran yesterday, goes on to

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