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In addition to the major primary runoff in Arkansas’s Senate race and the 10 states holding primaries today, a new member of Congress will be elected tonight in

UPDATE, 11:22 a.m. EST As the federal government nears a shutdown, scheduled to begin in just over 13 hours, latest reports on negotiations between the House

At a critical juncture in the Senate’s energy and climate negotiations, the president chose not to push a carbon pricing proposal.

The feds say states and counties have no choice in whether to participate in Secure Communities , but increasingly states and counties are saying otherwise. This week, the California Assembly voted to restrict the sharing of fingerprints to those of undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of crimes

Republicans hone in on ways to blame the president and the majority party for the AIG bonus scandal.

I’m heading home now, but the NACA people tell me they’ll be here again until midnight. People who have been waiting all day in various lines look tired and

Dave Camp may represent Michigan in Congress but he apparently has little concern about helping the state avoid more budget cuts and business taxes.

John McCain worked on key legislation with Rep. Rick Renzi, now indicted in connection with the sale of a business associate’s land. Did the senator know about any of it?

There’s been a lot of unnecessary politicization of national security issues,’’ Holder testified.

My friend Siobhan Gorman has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal anticipating that Obama won’t significantly change Bush’s intelligence policies, which

The decision to modify loans, under Obama’s programs, has been left in the hands of the same mortgage servicing companies that often stand to profit more from foreclosures.

A school board in Virginia has voted unanimously to leave No Child Left Behind, which would mean joining a bevy of other boards across the country in sending a

The House GOP sent a message to reporters this morning linking to this article about the possibility of a 30,000-troop surge in Afghanistan, an effort that will

The gay and lesbian community are one step closer to being able to participate in state sanctioned unions after the Colorado Senate voted to pass on second reading SB 172. While Democrats heralded the bill as a historic moment in the fight for civil rights and the protection of children, many Republicans voted against the bill, saying it would weaken the institution of marriage

In advance of this morning’s big Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Blackwater in Afghanistan, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) wrote a diary for the

The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to let the FBI keep domestic terror suspects in custody longer than the average

Last week, Twitter was host to a Stephen Colbert-encouraged pillorying of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) following a spokesman’s claim that when Kyl said on the

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Here’s a short video from the gathering of Tea Party activists today in Washington, before they set off to stage a die-in in Senate office buildings to

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