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A Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report indicates that Daniel Hay Lewis, arrested on Monday for shoplifting and charged with the criminal transmission of HIV, physically resisted being placed in a sheriff’s car and attempted to bite a deputy. # According to the report, Lewis is charged with HIV transmission because he knew he was HIV-positive when he attempted to bite the deputy.

UPDATED Nov. 3, 2011 with a correction* Plans to draw money and support from Maryland’s African-American churchgoers to fight next year’s marriage-equality

A new study from a Colorado-based educational research group takes a comprehensive look at the disparity in punishments handed to minority and disabled students

One thing that you didn’t get from Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in yesterday’s hearing on Pakistan: a sense of precisely what accountability measures the Obama

One day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hammered him for flip-flopping on Medicare cuts, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) fired back this morning

McClatchy and Kaiser Health News are reporting that recent decisions by Florida lawmakers have leaders of the state’s children’s hospitals worried about their budgets. McClatchy/Kaiser report : After years of being largely immune to concerns about costs, children’s hospitals are being buffeted by powerful economic and political forces.

The EPA announced today that it is now prepared to withdraw a portion of its proposed numeric nutrient criteria (a set of standards governing water pollution in inland waters) and delay the portion related to estuarine waters, to allow the state Department of Environmental Protection to develop its own criteria. # From a statement released by the EPA earlier today: # EPA recognizes that states have the primary role in establishing and implementing water quality standards for their waters. Therefore, EPA is prepared to withdraw the federal inland standards and delay the estuarine standards if FDEP adopts, and EPA approves, their own protective and scientifically sound numeric standards

Rep. John Kline, who chairs the House Education and Workforce Committee, slammed President Obama’s plan for student loan relief Monday as a “mistake,” saying it will do nothing to help workers looking for jobs

Bruce Watzman, spokesman for the National Mining Association, told Senate lawmakers Tuesday that no new legislation is required to prevent the next mining tragedy.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows record high enthusiasm among Republicans: Fully 56% of Republican voters say they are more enthusiastic

Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio is already being sued by the federal government for alleged racial profiling and related civil rights violations.

The conservative site sends a message to its members, penned by Erick Erickson: Get on the phone ASAP. The vote has not happened and it looks like it won’t

GOP Senate candidate Craig Miller (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) During this weekend’s Florida Tea Party Convention, Craig Miller became the second GOP candidate in Florida’s Senate race to insult Occupy Wall Street protesters. Groups in Florida have been rallying in solidarity with the New York-based movement that has spread all over the country for weeks now. The protesters have expressed dissatisfaction with a range of issues including high unemployment, income inequality and corporate greed

I guess Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) -- actually, Addison Graves Wilson Sr. -- found out about that secret Democratic plot to provide all illegal immigrants with

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) isn’t Washington’s biggest fan of President Obama, as his withdrawal from consideration for commerce secretary last month demonstrated.

Flush off of the upset Democratic victory in NY-23, which he had a big hand in, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish, is demanding that Rep. Michele

Friends of the Earth , the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, and Physicians for Social Responsibility have filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding U.S. government data on radiation releases from the Fukushima nuclear complex

Michele Bachmann’s legislative endorsements in Iowa are quite the mixed bag: A state senator who served jail time for selling pot; a former mayor who allegedly

In a statement to be sent to supporters, J Street, the pro-Israel-pro-peace American Jewish lobby group, is urging members of Congress not to pass to

Political party committees poured more than $594 million into campaigns in 2010, according to data from the National Institute on Money in State Politics , and Florida accounted for roughly a fifth of that total.

A new Voter System Scorecard by Rock the Vote indicates that Iowa ranks second in the nation in engaging young voters. That’s the good news. The bad news is if Iowa’s overall percentage was a letter grade, the Hawkeye State would earn a mediocre D.

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