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Hours after officially throwing his hat into the 2012 presidential contest via Twitter , former U.S.

After an Arizona Republican this week successfully attached a mining rider to a spending bill that would torpedo Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s ban on new uranium mining claims within 1 million acres of the Grand Canyon, Arizona business, sportsmen and conservation groups are once again rallying behind the moratorium. “Secretary Salazar made the right decision to support tourism by protecting the Grand Canyon from uranium mining,” said Jennifer Wesselhoff, president and CEO of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce (pdf) .

The latest batch of torture memos written by the Office of Legal Counsel under the Bush administration, which Spencer and I wrote about yesterday, divulged in

Marc Ambinder has a read on which politicos are close to, or advising, Sarah Palin. Pam Pryor, a former RNC senior adviser, leads Palin’s political action

In the wake of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s party-line passage of sweeping health reform legislation this morning, all eyes are

President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for top positions in his new administration, such as his chief of staff, are drawing all the attention lately. But in the

Reporters and commentators having been making much of the fact that in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano -- which upheld New Haven’s right to discard the results

The former Speaker of the House bucks the tide somewhat and endorses the GOP candidate in New York’s special election. The statement comes with typical

Last December, after President Obama’s self-imposed deadline for direct, preconditionless negotiations with Iran expired without Iranian receptivity,

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack met with rural producers and community leaders at Glenwood High School Thursday to hear their concerns and provide USDA assistance program information. Vilsack assured those gathered that the U.S.

Meeting with a small group of reporters in her Denver office, Congresswoman Diana DeGette said the right wing of the Republican Party is not doing what voters sent them to Washington for. “Their agenda has nothing to do with jobs,” she said, noting that Republicans seem hell-bent on passing a series of laws to attack women’s reproductive health, public broadcasting and climate change science among other things. “It’s frustrating.

With the Congressional battle over revising the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ending in a victory for President George W. Bush last week, a

The Institute of Medicine’s recent recommendation to the U.S. Department of Health to include birth control services in a list of preventive services for

Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle has been accused of meeting an 18-year-old man on the website Craigslist. The Indianapolis Star Tribune reports that

Following a story in The Washington Post yesterday about the large number of oil industry lobbyists who formerly worked in the federal government, Michael

When Senate Republicans last week blocked Democrats’ efforts to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, which say they’re near bankruptcy, the White House was

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