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In a sign that he may be giving up hope in his bid to hold onto his U.S. Senate seat, Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has taken a consulting job with the Republican

Yesterday I listed the year’s upcoming Young Eagles RNC fundraisers and wondered what their fate would be. Today we get an answer: We are canceling all Young

In 2008, the Obama-Biden ticket carried Rep. Bill Delahunt’s (D-Mass.) district--which lopes down from Boston across the South Shore of Massachusetts Bay--by 12

After the rejection of Ohio’s union-busting law, Senate Bill 5, on Tuesday, Democrats and media alike are crowing the results as good news for 2012, while

Right now, that video of 47-year-old unemployed Susan Boyle of Scotland taking Britain’s Got Talent by surprise with her soaring voice continues spread

It was not what he said, but what he didn’t say that’s caused the uproar. Asked this week about the iniquities between health insurance coverage for birth

The conservative congressman from North Carolina, a constant critic of the census -- one of the people who sounded the alarm about politicization when the

Mike Scheuer’s Google Alerts must be going crazy after his Glenn Beck appearance, because he left this message in the comment thread on my earlier

As I recount in this morning’s story, the first of three days of Tea Party events in D.C. consisted of a political rally followed by direct lobbying between Tea

EducationWeek published a story Thursday examining new fault lines that have emerged within traditional coalitions over the subject of urban-area charter

The White House has released a statement by Admiral Thad Allen, the national incident commander in the Gulf, on the news that BP was able to stop the flow of

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has put a hold on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) confirmation as secretary of state. Why? This is not an effort to scuttle

At a meeting today with environmentalists, President Obama’s staff would not commit to putting solar panels on the roof of the White House. According to a

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a law passed under historic circumstances

It’s been a tough road to refurbishing the Air Force’s refueling tanker fleet. The Pentagon’s KC-X tanker bid has seen Northrup Grumman drop out in frustration.

I just emailed Ronald Neumann, the former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan who was one of 17 retired diplomats writing to the Wall Street Journal in defense of

Some lawmakers have indicated they aren’t going to touch this weekend’s National Tea Party Convention with a ten-foot pole. Apparently, Alabamans don’t share

Americans for Tax Reform passes along an affidavit they sent to House members before the stimulus vote. I, _____________________________, commit to the

President Obama plans to change the criteria used to award all federal government contracts in order to reward companies who pay employees better than average

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