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As President Bush gets set today to announce his plan for reforming the financial markets, critics already are weighing in to say the proposals don’t amount to

Bailed-out insurance giant AIG will no doubt be a heated topic of discussion today, with The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations reporting that the

The way ahead cannot be war, said Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

The commission should call for a “comprehensive overhaul” of offshore drilling regulations that improves communication within MMS, requires “double and triple checking” of drilling activities, and updates standards for environmental review, Birnbaum said.

The oil industry vows to fight President Obama’s budget proposal unveiled yesterday that would raise $32 billion by taxing oil companies that failed to pay

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Jan. 12, 2009. The classic 1985 film Brewster’s

As you probably all know by now, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) conceded last night in her reelection battle for U.S. Senate, paving the way for her opponent,

As more states consider copying Arizona’s harsh anti-immigration law, at least one state’s GOP leaders decided against taking a stance on the measure. The

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan declined today to comment on whether states had the right to determine their own marriage laws, citing the likelihood a case

Politico reported today that 59 percent of Americans -- 61 percent of Democrats and independents and 59 percent of Republicans -- want Congress to pass

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this week might have softened her opposition to an offshore drilling vote, but GOP leaders want to see some proof of

As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s voter protection effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted on Election Day.

On Sean Hannity’s program Monday night, pollster Frank Luntz hosted a focus group of Iowa Republican caucus-goers, gauging their reaction of President Barack Obama’s Sunday afternoon interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. After a question by O’Reilly about the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in transitioning a government for Egypt, Luntz began to ask the Iowa Republicans why the meters showed them all having such a negative reaction to Obama’s answers . One woman said she believed the president’s religious convictions guide his policies.

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2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Would-be Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney edged his opponent Rick Santorum by a hair during the Iowa caucuses — defeating him by only eight votes. The Republican Party has deemed it the closest-ever margin of victory in a Republican presidential contest. From CNN : Ron Paul finished a close third, according to the state GOP

CNN covers Henrietta Hughes -- the newly homeless woman who told President Obama that she needed help at a town hall Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. -- and it makes

A caravan that environmentalist and renowned climate-change writer Bill Mckibben calls the “largest collective act of civil disobedience in the history of the climate movement” will roll through Boulder and Denver next week to protest the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Designed to carry oil from the tar sands production fields of Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf Coast, the nearest the pipeline comes to Colorado is Nebraska, but activists point out that tar sands oil already comes into Commerce City by pipeline and is then refined by Suncor Energy and sold as gasoline across Colorado at nearly 270 Shell and Phillips 66 stations.

On a McCain campaign conference call with reporters today, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani used a leading question about Sen. Barack Obama’s work with

The Obama administration released today its latest estimate of the economic cost of its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. And the numbers

Though foreign-policy experts worry that U.S. actions targeting Al Qaeda in autonomous tribal areas of Afghan-Pakistan border would destabilize Pakistan, Obama insists terrorists must be hunted down.

U.S. and Canadian environmental groups sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) today raising concerns about the

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) that while she admires former Justice Thurgood Marshall, she will be a different justice than he