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So hinted Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who told a crowd gathered this week for an annual meeting of the American Hospital Association that the House might

On his last day as head of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, who has historically had a good relationship with the city’s LGBT community, is giving one final token

Two weeks after moving next door to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, Stanton Healthcare, an anti-abortion center for women with unexpected

This one is barometrically significant more than anything else. Marc Lynch has a good rundown of an admittedly obscure tempest: a frequently mistaken

During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Andrea Merkel on Tuesday, President Obama suggested that he would like to explore with Congressional leaders the possibility of extending unemployment benefits again. Some of the steps that we took during the lame duck session, the payroll tax, the extension of unemployment insurance, the investment in — or the tax breaks for business investment in plants and equipment — all those things have helped. And one of the things that I’m going to be interested in exploring with the members of both parties in Congress is how do we continue some of these policies to make sure that we get this recovery up and running in a robust way.

An interesting scoop from NRO’s Stephen Spruiell, who reports that the movement to repeal health care reform through federal lawsuits began with GOP Sens. Jim

Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the gun in looking forward to the new online transparency hyped by House members.

Phil Bronstein, a contributing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, revealed in his column “Bronstein at Large” today that Chronicle reporter Carla

Iraq’s presidency council has now signed the U.S-Iraq basing accord known as the Status of Forces Agreement, meaning it’s official now. The terminus phase of

BP CEO Tony Hayward will receive $930,000 when he steps aside as the head of the company, the BBC reported today. According to the BBC: BP chief executive

It was bound to happen eventually. Fox 29 Philadelphia has the scoop: Fox 29 News spotted Tuesday a member of the New Black Panther Party standing outside of a

The crux of the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law is that state law enforcement shouldn’t do the job of the feds in cracking down

<div class="mini gray">photo credit: lauren burke, wdcpix</div> <p>In March, General Petraeus will deliver The Surge:

GUANTANAMO BAY -- I’ll be heading into the courtroom for Day 2 of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing shortly, and that means I’ll be unable to provide any updates

Byron York, covering the 2006 immigration rallies: At the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators

I know I’m delirious now, because Rep. Tom Tancredo just asked if there are MS-13 gangs within the military, who are using their Iraq training when they come

A new independent Morning Call/Muhlenberg College Tracker poll has confirmed that Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is now leading former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) by a

Below is the full text of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Republican response speech. But I’m struck by this bit: Today in Washington, some are promising that