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To keep the markets from melting down today in the wake of the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy filing and the sale of Merrill Lynch, ten of the world’s largest banks

PBS’s Tehran Bureau interviews the son of Green leader Mehdi Kerroubi: 10:00 am EST: Tehran Bureau interview with Hossein Karroubi, opposition leader Mehdi

Congressman Jared Polis and drug-policy reform advocate Ethan Nadelmann argued Wednesday night in Vail that one of the most compelling reasons to legalize marijuana in the United States is to eliminate a major funding source for deadly Mexican drug cartels. Both Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and recently retired DEA agent Anthony Coulson sharply disagreed. Polis, Suthers (Williams photo)

Evangelical college Liberty University is the largest recipient of federal aid to a student body in Virginia and the eighth largest recipient in the country

A little-noticed bill by Rep. Tim Walz is gaining national attention this week after CBS’ “60 Minutes” aired an expose on insider training by members of Congress. Walz, along with Rep.

Findings released by a left-leaning think tank today demonstrate minority students will soon out-number whites, but a dearth of minority instructors is holding

Last night, after falling in the polls in recent days, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) managed to eke out a win in her primary runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill

Here’s one more interesting tidbit from the claims process statistics released yesterday by Kenneth Feinberg’s Gulf Coast Claims Facility. More than 1,300

From Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s remarks today with the prime minister of Qatar: Among the matters that we consulted on, the situation in Yemen

Michael Steele became chairman of the RNC on a 91-77 vote on the fifth ballot, having picked up 12 of Saul Anuzis’s 20 votes. I’m at a press conference now,

Why Obama’s speech on financial reform was so soft on Wall Street bankers. Democrats plan to introduce legislation to check the Citizens United

Former Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio) filed as an independent congressional candidate today in his old House district, but may file to run in a neighboring

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As The Minnesota Independent previously reported, ABC News recently released an undercover video of Bachmann & Associates, a Christian counseling clinic run

Here’s one way to eliminate conflicts of interest. The Obama administration has in mind to carve up the Minerals Management Service, a branch of the Interior

There is a new buzz in the roadless debate. Charlie Berger, owner of Denver Beer Co., this week called on Congress to strengthen protections of public lands in light of the U.S. Forest Service’s deliberation of a new state-specific proposal to manage forests and attempts by Republican lawmakers to roll back wilderness and roadless area protections

At a luncheon at the Heritage Foundation today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said that the Tea Party movement could help Republicans from moving too far to the

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