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The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee on Monday announced the creation of a $20 million redistricting fund to assist 2010 races that will have the

As the cable news networks parse every word of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson -- with more still to come today -- some are

I was just talking to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who’s leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, about his proposed Parental Rights Amendment—a

Aboard Straight Talk Air, an adviser to Sen. John McCain said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin alters the electoral map, and gave a glimpse into her role in the

A new anti-abortion-rights bill introduced in the Michigan House Thursday calls for criminalization of coercion to abort. In its current draft, House Bill

Watchdog groups tend to cry foul when lobbyists solicit earmarks for their corporate clients from legislators. Lobbyists, in turn, often blame the groups for

Former U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Monday, after pleading guilty to one count of obstruction of justice. The plea

Republicans in Congress have been quick to point to the sometimes-riotous town-hall forums of recent weeks as indication that Americans en masse believe the

McClatchy reported late last week that a Justice Department document asserts the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S.

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Kevin DeAnna writes about the new Temple University course on Mayor Lou Barletta’s tenure in Hazelton -- a class called, evocatively, War in Hazelton. Week

With roughly an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, federal lawmakers and President Barack Obama struck a deal to avoid a shutdown of the federal government — at least for this week.

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Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, is facing accusations that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper and

Everyone in the blogosphere -- Glenn, I’m looking in your direction -- who may have thought that John Brennan was kneecapped just because he didn’t become CIA

The House on Friday approved legislation to extend the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits through November. It does not create new

A system that protects southeast Michigan water systems by monitoring for chemical contamination in Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair and Detroit rivers may shut down because of a lack of funding.

It sounded like a good idea. In this interactive age, the Department of Homeland Security wanted to take advantage of an easy way to get public feedback on its

Five former Treasury secretaries support the Volcker Rule to separate banks’ risky trading from their commercial banking operations. Social networking theory

The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to 11,000 to 445,000 this week, the Labor Department reported this morning. Economists had

Declining numbers of Pennsylvania Republicans and anger at party moderates have made backers of Pat Toomey confident they can defeat the five-term senator.

Glenn Beck, one-time shock jock now wildly emotive and popular TV political conspiracy theorist, is airing his last regular show on the Fox network tonight. He plans to stride from the Fox studio after his nightly show to the home of his new “GBTV” outlet to do a post-Fox interview– not with any media talking head but with regular people who will participate in a live Q&A. To hear GB talk about his new venture, it’s going to be typically low key and free of grandiose aspirations