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As bank-owned foreclosed properties pile up across the country, from abandoned houses in hard-hit neighborhoods to empty big box retail stores in failed strip malls, the fight over holding someone responsible for the brick and mortar mess left behind by the mortgage crisis continues to heat up.

It’s no mystery that the first item on the agenda when Congress returns to Washington next week will be an enormous spending package designed to create jobs and

Colorado Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn has led the charge to strip government funds from public broadcasting , saying that outlets like PBS and NPR are biased against conservative politics and that the news shows are popular enough after 40 years to survive on advertising revenues. Surveys have consistently shown however that, in the era of overheated cable news, Americans like the product that the not-for-profit business model has delivered, ranking PBS , for example, the most trusted institution in the nation

After several reporters spent a good fifteen minutes looking at each other following Sen. John McCain’s speech at the University of Nevada Las Vegas trying to

Gallup has a webpage that tracks global unemployment numbers. Felix Salmon looks at the data and provides another argument for why the claim that unemployment benefits keeps people from taking jobs is false. US unemployment, on this measure, is in the double-digit range — significantly above the global average of 7%.

Noah Shachtman has a great post about Google’s decision to ask the National Security Agency help the company defend itself against cyberattacks. But

Gov. Rick Perry will be free to usher, direct parking or join hands onstage with James Dobson one week from Saturday, thanks to a ruling yesterday in

Last week, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) kicked off his campaign in defense of a law that strips collective bargaining rights of unionized public employees, and the

It’s one of the central tenets of the government’s strategy to get banks lending again: Wealthy private investors such as hedge funds are being encouraged, with

The well, as it were, was poisoned, one of Khadr’s lawyers said.

Something else to keep an eye on in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s defense authorization mark-up: via Satyam Khanna, Steve Vladeck finds the remnant of a

During a Monday night interview with Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul was asked about the enthusiasm of his core supporters and what he would do to broaden his base.

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expedite the State Department’s review of a massive and controversial oil pipeline

Pic by Smithers7, via Wikimedia Commons Responding to a new bill introduced in the Florida Legislature, spokespeople for the Florida Sheriffs Association say that jails are not neglecting the health and safety of incarcerated pregnant women. Isaiah Dennard, the jail services coordinator for the Florida Sheriffs Association, tells The Florida Independent that while regulations are not stipulated in the Florida Model Jail Standards, “specific jails each have their own policies protecting pregnant women.” “This has been done for years,” he says.

Though a 2012 referendum to reverse Maine’s 2009 same-sex-marriage repeal is not yet official, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has already

U.S. and Yemeni officials have reached an impasse in their attempts to negotiate the return of Yemeni prisoners currently held at the U.S. detention facility at

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag kept up the pressure on Senate Republicans over the weekend by continuing to raise the possibility that

No doubt, mine-safety officials will be scratching their heads as to how the Dotiki Mine in Western Kentucky could have collapsed in the same month that

The fence under construction along the Arizona-Mexico border aims to keep immigrants out, but it’s also yielding some unintended environmental consequences. At

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