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Today the Obama campaign released a new ad slamming Sen. John McCain’s economic policies. While McCain talks about putting "country first," the ad

Politico gets the early read and the early spin on the House Republicans’ alternative budget plan, focusing on the spin. We don’t know what’s in it, but we know

Speculation has been running rampant among pundits and journalists alike about President Obama’s reported desire to nominate Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) as

TWI has been following the Gulf oil spill claims process for months now. Though things seem to be improving at the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, frustration still

Rick Scott won the Republican primary for Florida governor last night, edging out party favorite Bill McCollum. Before the primary, the candidates competed for

Sarah Palin’s latest FEC numbers are in, and -- as with all things Palin-related -- it’s big news. As Politico opined in a story last night: In short, for the

The heads of Detroit’s automakers might be willing to accept $1 salaries as a condition of a federal bailout, but they won’t commit to capping their total

Former Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput took the reins in sex-scandal-plagued Philadelphia last week. A sampling of YouTubes posted last week offers a snapshot of his trying first days there, a new Church leader in a place grown deeply distrustful of Church leaders. A video posted Thursday captured angry Catholics protesting outside the mass held to install Chaput in his new position.

<p>In a bucolic field two miles north of Mount Vernon, beside a baseball diamond in Fort Hunt Park, Va., about 20 veterans of a secret World War II

In opposition to President Barack Obama’s Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), HIV-specific criminal law legislation has popped up in three states in the last two months. Michigan Messenger reported on the NHAS in July. In Nebraska, state lawmakers are debating legislation which would make it a crime for a person who is infected with HIV or Hepatitis to expose law enforcement officials to body fluids.

Last week, Senate Democratic leaders rolled out a proposal to extend unemployment insurance by 14 weeks -- with an extra six weeks thrown in for those states

At noon today, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), from his home on Main Street in East Haddam, officially announced his retirement from Congress at the end of the year.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, after inspecting the recently disclosed nuclear facility at Qom, suspects there may be more: International inspectors

In New York state, the legislature is poised to pass same-sex marriage and would become the third state to do so legislatively, following Vermont and New

The social media-sparked “Bank Transfer Day” won’t officially be underway until Saturday, but credit unions in Iowa and throughout the nation are already benefiting from the initiative. Olivia Maiers, spokeswoman for the Iowa Credit Union League, reports that members have gain 7,000 new members and $49 million in new deposits since the beginning of September.

At Newsweek, Sheriff Thomas Dart of Cook County in Chicago offers an unusually personal look at the process of throwing someone out of their home in a

The impact of Alabama’s new immigration law, which requires K-12 schools to check the immigration status of their students, could be felt in several states, including Florida. Sunshine State News reports today that “a number of school districts across Florida have been advised to monitor enrollment numbers for Hispanic migrant families relocating from Alabama after a federal judge upheld that state’s new immigration enforcement law.” The online news outlet adds that “Florida’s Education Estimating Conference said so far they haven’t seen any influx in the counties bordering Alabama or in counties such as Osceola, Hardee and Volusia where migrant families may seek agriculture employment,” and that the “Alabama Department of Education stated that on Oct 3, 5 percent of the state’s Hispanic students didn’t show up for school.” Our sister site The American Independent recently reported that civil rights groups and the U.S. Justice Department sued to stop Alabama’s immigration enforcement law, “passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in May, from being enforced, as they did in the case of S.B

Everyone remembers that on Aug. 6, 2001, while President George W. Bush was clearing brush in Texas, he received an intelligence brief warning about Al Qaeda’s