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The Associated Press is reporting that the Obama administration will release a new moratorium on offshore drilling later today. The new moratorium comes as

The Supreme Court today threw out a ruling of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that had ordered the government to disclose photographs of detainees being

Appearing today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) outlined tension between House Democratic leadership and the party’s conservative Blue

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said in a recent interview with Big Think that he believes the country is at a point where it will soon be acceptable to

From Politico’s strangely timed survey of a seemingly random sample of Republican worthies on their 2012 presidential hopes: Liz Cheney, a State Department

Reporters are already writing climate change legislation’s obituary, given failed attempts by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday evening passed HR 2560, also known as the Cut, Cap and Balance Act, by a 234-190 margin with every Michigan Republican in the chamber voting for the bill. The bill would force massive cuts in federal spending to bring the budget down to a maximum of 18 percent of the previous year’s Gross Domestic Product

Environmental groups have participated in a series of meetings in recent weeks to press Senate staff to strengthen the renewable energy standard included in Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s energy bill.

Congratulations, Leon Panetta. When you decided, unexpectedly, to become President Obama’s CIA director, did you anticipate spending one of your first major

Michael Steele might be difficult to oust as RNC chairman. Joe Biden thinks reports of the Democrats’ demise are premature. The Justice Department may

Earlier today, demonstrators led by the Sierra Club planted 10,000 flags on the National Mall in Washington to spell out the words freedom from oil. Speakers

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) During a town hall held today to discuss the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in Florida, health advocates continued to express disapproval of the state’s rejection of millions of dollars in federal health grants

Democrats are in the uncomfortable position of claiming that an overhaul of the way doctors are paid under Medicare is somehow not part of health care reform.

I followed up with GOP congressional candidate Charles Djou to clear up what he meant when he said Republicans should try to work on dramatic reform first

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new rules to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants. It hopes to implement the

In that piece about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) shift to the right in the Obama era, Jonathan Martin and Manu Raju mention that the senator is at least

President Obama’s push for additional economic stimulus has hit a wall not only in Congress, but also at the G-20 summit among European leaders.

As most of the state was preparing for the blizzard that buried much of the state in snow Tuesday, advocates for the state medical marijuana law’s confidentiality provisions were in federal court in Grand Rapids trying to quash a federal subpoena for medical information in the possession of the Michigan Department of Community Health. Both state and federal authorities were in court on Tuesday as well as advocates for Michigan Association of Compassion Clubs arguing over whether the MDCH can release information about seven patients/caregivers without violating the law’s confidentiality clause.

Writing about the role Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan played in the Bush counterterror surveillance program, Marcy Wheeler, blogging for Glenn

Jon Buice, who confessed to joining in the hate-crime murder of Paul Broussard in Houston in 1991, will be paroled in October after serving less than half of

New homeowners who used the Obama administration’s tax credits will get special scrutiny from the agency.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) takes another bite at the Afghanistan apple. He says he doesn’t want to compare anything to Vietnam, but he’s worried Afghanistan is