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Data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s network of radiation monitors does not reach the public quickly and some monitors are not functional, critics say.

While the Tea Party-backing Americans for Prosperity and the group’s secretive billionaire founder, David Koch, have regularly made headlines this election

While Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback remains the only governor to accept his invitation to The Response – an all-day prayer and fasting rally hosted by Gov. Rick

Finally, a bit of good economic news. The Department of Labor reports that new unemployment claims took a significant drop last week, from 428,000 to 391,000, dropping below the magic number of 400,000. The four-week average is still at 417,000.

FreedomWorks has launched a Facebook page for a Sept. 12, 2009 march on Washington -- 9/12 being the date that Glenn Beck is building his anti-whatever and

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Today was supposed to be a critical day for the Obama administration’s efforts to kill the troubled F-22 fighter jet. It goes like this: the Senate is taking up

Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), the last major Republican office-holder in the very blue home of Vice President Joe Biden, is set to announce whether or not he’ll

While one group of leading conservatives is pressing Republican senators to filibuster Obama’s nominee for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals,

Most of the time, universal condemnation of a company’s business practices leads to little more than some unflattering newspaper articles, unmet calls for a

A piece in the Pakistan paper the News accused the U.S. military of taking the inexplicable step of abandoning checkposts on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Up until Thursday night it had been a crowded week for the Democratic National Convention. There were too many delegates and reporters jammed into the Pepsi

The other highly watched Research 2000/Daily Kos poll result casts the New Jersey gubernatorial race the way that everyone else is casting it -- a tie, with

Tomorrow morning -- sigh -- President Obama is going to give a speech unveiling his approach to the Afghanistan war and to the -- the-- the Whatever You Call It

Credit unions, once considered mom-and-pop operations, made the same risky mistakes as big banks.

He reframes his argument that the Democrats need a new speaker in a Human Events column: Speaker Pelosi has damaged America’s safety. She’s made America

It’s been a good week for Chrysler. The United Auto Workers ratified the new collective bargaining agreement with nearly 55 percent of the vote and the company also announced a third quarter profit of more than $200 million

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain announces his new economic plan today, just after his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee,

If Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s call for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures sounds familiar, that’s because his former Democratic rival,

House Democrats introduced legislation yesterday designed to stem the foreclosure crisis, including a provision empowering bankruptcy judges to alter the terms