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When Gov. Rick Snyder issued his health and wellness message to the legislature last week, HIV activists were hoping to hear from Snyder about how he intended to address the HIV epidemic in the state. They were sorely disappointed.

Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines, spoke at a women’s health rally hosted by a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Fort Lauderdale yesterday

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio played a pivotal role in the last two presidential elections. With its primary concern -- the economy -- the nation’s primary concern, all eyes are sure to be on what its voters say on Election Day. But with charges of voter fraud swirling in the air, could the state be Florida 2008?

From the perspective of many conservatives, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is doing himself and Republicans a lot of harm by fighting Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.)

Rep. Michele Bachmann has added religious right attorney Jay Sekulow to her list of instructors at her Tea Party Caucus constitutional classes.

This afternoon, the Senate passed two amendments enhancing the regulation of credit rating agencies, which assess financial products and assign them ratings

A British High Court on Friday ordered that previously redacted text concerning the alleged torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed must be

As the presidential campaigns head toward the Democratic and Republican conventions, the candidates are making new promises about how they’ll end the war in

It is a point so obvious that it often goes unnoticed. The unemployment rate is very, very high, and has been so for a very long time. Even though it has edged

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) employed a Senate rule forcing the committee considering a law to replace No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to come to a sudden halt, even

The Center for Constitutional Rights says it just learned today that the government has videotapes of the interrogation of its client, Mohammed al Qahtani, a

In closing remarks after a marathon meeting of the national oil spill commission, co-chairman William Reilly blamed a culture of complacency for the massive

The office of Secretary of State Dianna Duran says that the names of 641 dead people are still on the voter registration rolls in New Mexico. Ken Ortiz, Duran’s chief of staff, says they still don’t know whether anyone has voted using the name of a dead person because they need to check the dates of death against the dates when the names were last used to vote

The Congressional Research Service has issued a report analyzing the opinions of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and concluded, just as previous studies of her opinions

A chunk of federal money awarded to the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC) -- a division of The Family Leader, a Focus on the Family affiliate -- between 2006 and

Wednesday Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler said that enough valid signatures had been collected to place Initiative 25 on the ballot November 1.

The FDA unveils scary pictures for cigarette labels. George W. Bush forgives Kanye West and says he’s not a hater... ...and Stewart and Colbert try to

So says the Las Vegas Sun, which has conducted an exclusive interview with Doug Hampton, the husband of Sen. John Ensign’s (R-Nev.) former mistress. Hampton

The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday, along with Alkarama for Human Rights, asked two U.N. special rapporteurs to investigate the extraordinary

Michele Bachmann is set to kick off her tour of the Sunshine State tomorrow; the presidential hopeful’s first stop will be in Jacksonville Beach, for a visit at Angie’s Sub Shop. Angie’s is a casual haunt more often visited by surfers than politicians, but its owner, Ed Malin, is a staunch conservative and a member of the tea party.

President Obama confirmed Wednesday that he plans to keep the controversial military commissions alive.