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As new Palestinian institutions and new leaders emerge, demonstrating real performance on security and reform, I expect Israel to respond and work toward a

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According to the “End of Session” report from the Florida House of Representatives released this week, Florida’s Healthy Start Coalitions lost $5.2 million dollars in state funding this year. Local Healthy Start coalitions provide high-quality prenatal care services for at-risk mothers and health care services for children in their communities

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall is leading the fight for equal rights for gay Americans on Capitol Hill and on the video internet

Testifying recently before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder was asked what the Justice Department plans to do with Guantanamo Bay

Democrats and Republicans traded barbs Monday after Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, declared an end to the Joint Select Committee on Redistricting by preparing to introduce a bill to create a Democratic map. In turn, Republicans said they too would introduce a map to compete with the Democratic version.

MARION — Although candidates in Iowa Senate District 18 agreed local residents haven’t been asking about the social issues that seem to be the focus of national media and third-party groups regarding this special election, they nonetheless received and answered questions on those topics during a League of Women Voters forum Thursday night. Cindy Golding Republican Cindy Golding co-owns four businesses with her husband and was elected as co-chairwoman of the Linn County Republican Central Committee

Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is at the helm of a new conservative group called Liberty Central. Its first project is a poll,

In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is urging

Via The Wall Street Journal, here’s the inane argument being tried by Merck, the pharmaceutical giant that defended itself before the Supreme Court this week

How can you tell when the Karzai-Taliban peace talks are gaining momentum? When Carlotta Gall of The New York Times writes a curtain-raiser on them. Much of

For months, a debate has raged over whether the Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, should do more to help the economy -- particularly to gin up more

Last month, House Republicans on the Financial Services Committee silenced consumer witnesses at a hearing to examine proposed credit card reforms (as we

Now that commentator and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley has severed his ties to Wells Fargo & Co., what about the bank itself? As Smiley noted in his

Mock cable news conservative Stephen Colbert this week skewered Alabama lawmakers who passed the state’s toughest-in-the-nation anti-illegal immigration legislation this year. Alabama’s “papers please” law endorsed in Colorado by immigration crusader Tom Tancredo came amid a wave of similar proposals floated last spring by Republican state lawmakers around the country, including here in Colorado . The law has led to a mass exodus of Latinos in Alabama , which has left the agricultural industry shorthanded and thousands of acres of produce unpicked and rotting during harvest season.

CEDAR RAPIDS — More than 100 people converged along 1st Avenue in front of Town & Country Center Tuesday evening to express their support for an independent judiciary and marriage rights for same-sex couples. The march and demonstration, which was organized by Faith in Iowa , a relatively new faith-based organization in eastern Iowa, was accomplished by a coalition like-minded groups that included the local chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and local members of One Iowa, a statewide LGBT advocacy organization

In an attempt to counter some of the more bizarre and fantastical claims being made about the Uighur prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, lawyer Sabin Willett writes a

I’m getting the usual truckloads of mail attacking my piece on the slow mainstreaming of Birtherism, some of it attacking Janice Okubo of the Hawaii Department

Politico reports a small-scale controversy has erupted over the Obama-Biden transition team’s announcement that former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) will serve as an

The national oil spill commission has made headlines last week for its reports that heavily criticized the Obama administration for its response to the Gulf oil