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The National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council have registered with the state campaign finance board to actively encourage voters to support an anti–gay marriage amendment on the 2012 ballot. The organizations are the target of an investigation by the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board following a complaint that both groups failed to disclose lobbying efforts in the 2010 election. MFC and NOM created Minnesota for Marriage and registered it as a ballot question committee late last week, a designation that will allow it to begin fundraising.

Public Policy Polling has a new study of the birther movement and finds that by a 44-36 margin, Republicans don’t believe that Barack Obama was born in the

At a key moment in the race, news reports indicated New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg would praise Sen. John McCain in a speech this morning to the Independence

President Barack Obama has announced the death of Osama bin Laden, killed in Pakistan during a CIA/Navy Seals operation. The New York Times: WASHINGTON —

Jeff Anderson Duluth City Councilor Jeff Anderson collected four more Iron Range backers in his bid to win the DFL endorsement to run against U.S.

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) About two thirds of the 10.2 million unauthorized adult immigrants who currently live in the U.S have lived here for at least 10 years, according to a report released early this month by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Gov. Susana Martinez announced Monday that she will extend a state program to supplement federal food stamp benefits for 4,000 low-income elderly and disabled New Mexicans, the AP reports

A new Public Policy Polling survey shows that more New Mexicans disapprove of President Obama than before, but still favor him for re-election over all Republican contenders. The poll showed that 50 percent approve of the president and 44 percent disapprove, down from a 55/40 split measured by PPP last February. Former Massachusetts Gov.

The editors of Scientific American published an op-ed saying that the practice of hydrofracking has been adopted faster than questions about the safety of the procedure have been answered and that the states are “flying blind” in trying to regulate its effects. Public fears are growing about contamination of drinking-water supplies from the chemicals used in fracking and from the methane gas itself. Field tests show that those worries are not unfounded.

It’s an entirely new financial world out there today -- in a single weekend, Wall Street has turned upside down. As The Washington Post explained, two of the

One thing you can say about a kid who goes to bed hungry is that he will wake up the same way. Odds are he’ll go to school hungry as well.

Before National Financial Literacy Month ends on Friday, it’s worth noting a few developments. The nation’s premier financial literacy organization, the

A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling released on Monday that upholds a preliminary injunction against Arizona’s S.B. 1070 immigration-enforcement law could impact immigration bills moving through the Florida legislature, according to one immigrant rights activist

59 percent of New Mexico voters say the federal budget deficit reduction should not involve cutting Medicaid, according to a new poll commissioned by advocacy groups in the state. The Research and Polling, Inc. poll also found that 83 percent of surveyed New Mexico voters believe Medicaid, which provides government-funded health insurance for lower-income Americans, is an important program.

It’s a curiously enormous loophole in the federal effort to keep firearms out of the hands of felons, fugitives, minors and the mentally ill: Unlicensed

The California Supreme Court announced Thursday that the next stage in the ongoing legal challenge of Proposition 8, which made same-sex marriage illegal

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in National Review, today: If I was going to put a label on the president’s statements, I’d have to get my thesaurus. He and the

Economist and former Labor Sec. Robert Reich, who spoke out early and forcefully in opposition to the $700-billion Treasury Dept., rescue plan, is back again,

A judge’s ruling could have wide-reaching implications for 600 detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

This is pretty incredible. In an interview with NPR’s Renee Montagne aired today, Sen. John McCain indicated he does not believe he is running a negative