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This weekend, Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said that it was too soon to say whether the Obama administration might revive

Facing one of the worst droughts in its history, many local communities in Texas are setting limits on how much water can be used for natural gas hydrofracking. Bloomberg Businessweek reports : Local water districts, which have authority to allocate water from subterranean aquifers, are adding a water-intensive production method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to some of the pumping restrictions they’re imposing on farmers and small towns. The city of Grand Prairie in the Barnett Shale in North Texas in August became the first municipality to ban the use of city water for fracking

Attorney General Eric Holder artfully skirts Bush-era legal problems facing the Department of Justice.

Some Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, have been calling for hearings to

As someone who’s lived almost my entire life in Virginia, this election means a great deal to me, as it does to most voters in the state. For the first time

There’s good reason to be confused about the Labor Department’s latest unemployment figures, which showed that the nation’s jobless numbers rose by 11,000 last

A Denver district judge this week rejected motions by the state of Colorado and a Canadian uranium mining company to throw out a lawsuit challenging the proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill in Montrose County. Denver District Judge Brian Whitney sided with the Telluride-based Sheep Mountain Alliance, which contends the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) may have violated various state and federal laws in issuing a permit for the mill.

This morning, Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu rolled out an $8 billion weatherization program, which they hope will create 87,000 jobs,

Gov. Rick Scott has until Saturday to act on House Bill 1355, the controversial elections bill that passed the Florida Legislature along party lines over objections that it would make voting more difficult

As expected, President George W. Bush vetoed the $300 billion farm bill today, citing high costs and numerous giveaways to wealthy farmers. Many outside

The publicity-hungry sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., repeatedly stole headlines this year. Dubbing himself America’s Toughest Sheriff, Arpaio starred in

Drug companies have been raising prices at the fastest rate since 1992. President 2.0 Barack Obama has never used Twitter. Karl Rove rips into Obama for

Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park (right) (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) Progress Florida has launched a new petition calling for Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon to “drop” his chamber’s participation in legal action targeting Amendment 6, one of the two popular Fair Districts measures passed by Florida voters last fall.

About 50 Occupy Minnesota protestors listed off why they wanted to risk arrest at Steve Payne’s teach-in on Saturday. Some said their goal was “to end capitalism.” Others said they protested “because the Federal Reserve and banks stole trillions.” Or for others, the end result was “to make a change” or “to stop just talking about a revolution.” Those broader grievances, though, were tied to a more specific one on the ninth day of Minnesota’s nascent spinoff of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept the nation: the desire for shelter to continue protesting in the face of Minnesota’s frigid weather.

Moments after Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) voted for the Democratic health care bill, countless anti-Cao Twitter feeds, Web forums, and Facebook pages were born.

The office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) acknowledged today that, in order for people to access the full 20 weeks of additional jobless benefits

The first meaningful Republican debate of the 2011-2012 primary was held in New Hampshire yesterday, and the candidates had much to say on how they would handle

A Politico story co-written by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen delves into the political ideal bipartisanship and includes one source that should cause some

Remember Monday’s Supreme Court decision that logically pointed out that it doesn’t make sense to convict someone for “identity theft” if the worker using

Both incumbent members of Congress who switched parties since the 2008 election have now lost re-nomination, as voters turned away Democrat-turned-Republican

Mike’s piece today on the failure of Congress to pass a mortgage cramdown bill -- which would allow bankruptcy judges to modify loans and is a major element of

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