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It looks like BP’s embattled CEO, Tony Hayward, will be stepping down. And he’ll probably be replaced by Robert Dudley, who would be the first American to take

They want to kill you; they want to kill me; they want to kill our families, said the chief steward for the union representing workers at Standish Maximum

On June 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began an intensified round of employer audits, notifying 1,000 businesses across the country that they

It appears that way. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) summoned members of the doctors lobby to Capitol Hill Wednesday evening for an update on the

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the GOP’s leading voices against liberal media bias -- he heads the Congressional Media Fairness Caucus and keynoted this

Republicans are having a good time today looking over the wreckage of what Democrats once hoped could be serious re-election challenges for Rep. Pete Sessions

Last night, Congress passed -- and President Obama signed into law -- legislation that provides a short-term benefit extension for the long-term unemployed. The

The senior Republican on the Banking Committee and senior senator from Alabama, who is blocking lauded economist Peter Diamond from joining the Federal Reserve

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – “These folks are shameless!” thundered Sen. Barack Obama, after listing his Republican opponents’ distortions and economic plans.

Massey Energy, the coal giant that owns the West Virginia mine where 29 miners were killed in a blast April 5, might be racking up thousands of safety

The weekend before thanksgiving, Colorado Springs-based evangelical group Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage will host a Republican presidential candidate forum in Des Moines centered on social issues. Focus on the Family staffer Tom Minnery said the hosts of the event don’t plan to “get into theology as such” because there wouldn’t be enough time for the candidates to “solve theological questions.” Primary campaign frontrunner Mitt Romney, who is Mormon, has yet to commit to the event. In an appearance at CitizenLink, Focus on the Family’s political media outlet, Minnery hoped Romney would come around

Although court-watchers were predicting that the Supreme Court would decide yesterday whether to hear the appeal from a group of Chinese Muslim detainees at

Spencer Kornhaber follows up on the story of Orly Taitz seeking ... something from the United Nations as she faces various shadowy threats to her crusade to

These are medieval documents, these Office of Legal Counsel memos. And not just in the sense that torture techniques like the waterboard date back to medieval

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