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Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they lacked a deep bench of

So is voter fraud really a problem or not? On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, not answering the question, exactly, but ruling unanimously that the

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) told reporters today he is now more comfortable with Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination after meeting with her

I reported yesterday that there was some friction between the Tea Party Patriots and Our Country Deserves Better PAC, the organization that launched the Tea

Here’s your chance to tell the Department of Homeland Security what you think a sound immigration policy is, or whether you should be allowed to take your

Here’s another Ted Kennedy video. This is the departed Massachusetts senator in a press conference after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his

Incumbent Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) candidate Chas Roemer appears to have violated state campaign law by accepting a $20,000

One can hardly wander around the White House or the Treasury Department without bumping into someone who worked for Goldman Sachs. A short list: The

A six-pack of noteworthy tidbits from this week’s news: # Your state lawmakers are most likely richer than you: See this report from the News Service of Florida. Only in Florida: A former governor’s fraternity brother gets embroiled in a legal battle with a businessman tied to the Jordanian royal family over a lucrative Pentagon contract. Adam Hasner on the Truth-O-Meter: False

Well, this isn’t going to soothe the GOP’s internal critics of Michael Steele, who worry that his celebrity distracts him from the party’s message. He stars in

Chris Christie, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey who has ridden his experience as a U.S. attorney to a healthy lead in the polls, is taking

The Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe has a good story about a concerted push by Gen. William Caldwell and Interior Minister Hanif Atmar, the two highest-level

Apparently, California Republican candidates Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman unveiled a new method for attracting Latino voters: tequila shots. The Senate and

The hell that Ken Wainstein endures is a torment of bipolar disorder. The life-affirming rush of mania: We and our foreign partners have disrupted a number

PG&E, the owner of a California natural gas pipeline that exploded in September, killing eight people, released a plan yesterday to upgrade its pipeline

People.com reports that Bristol Palin, daughter of former GOP vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, gave birth over the weekend. Bristol

Alan Bersin, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was asked a good question during a talk this afternoon hosted by the Migration Policy

Three immigrants in Georgia filed what some experts said could be the first legal challenge to the 287 (g) program, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Well, we knew that SEC employees weren’t policing the Lehman Brothers or sharing information on its collapse with the Fed and they weren’t getting Goldman to

On the crucial question of where Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried and in what forum -- where nuance will be heavily scrutinized -- Eric Holder held out

I thought yesterday’s hit on Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for the coincidence of voting for health care reform after his wife got to appear at an event

After Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s address to AIPAC, I caught up with two representatives of J Street, the younger and more progressive

In the two weeks since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule limiting cross-state air pollution from power plants, Gov. Rick Perry and