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In late January, just days before her son would win the Florida Republican primary, 96-year-old Roberta McCain—who in another era might have been called a

Because sometimes when your pants are down around your knees, it’s easier to step away from the window than it is to pull up your pants, the now infamous Scott Gessler/Larimer County GOP fundraiser will be closed to the media. Problem solved.

The U.S. State Department’s long-awaited final Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL pipeline seems to overlook some of the lessons from last

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta issued new guidelines last week designed to help health care providers counsel patients and determine if taking powerful antiretroviral medications will be an effective prevention strategy. The new guidelines come just months after a major study found that daily use of tenofovir plus emtricitabine, called Truvada, reduced the potential of infection for high risk men who have sex with men by 44 percent

Via Adam Serwer, the Atlantic’s Chris Good notes a correlation between church attendance and support for torture in a new Pew study: A combined 54 percent of

Opponents of SB 1070, Arizona’s much-contested immigration law, got a boost Friday when a federal judge ruled against the state’s efforts to block a lawsuit

Domestic auto sales in February were up 27 percent over the same month a year ago, led by a staggering 46 percent increase for General Motors. Ford posted gains of 10 percent while Chrysler jumped 13 percent. The annualized sales were 13.4 million vehicles, far surpassing analysts’ expectations.

Minnesota is the only state to face the possibility of a government shutdown this year, but at least twenty states have had late budgets since 2002.

Occupy Wall Street and its many spinoffs may be on its way to getting at least one billboard. EpicStep will donate a billboard if at least 20,000 people go online and vote for a design and a city to place it in

Democrats are no longer the only ones going after Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) for holding up unemployment benefits. Sen. Susan Collins, moderate Republican from

It is getting pretty ugly on the road with the McCain campaign -- and that may be an indication the character attacks on Sen. Barack Obama are working. After

A new Gallup poll shows that while a plurality of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents would pick former Gov. Mitt Romney as their preferred

It’s a big day for banks: The Obama administration is expected to unveil new too big to fail proposals for dealing with troubled financial giants, Reuters

Descend for a moment, won’t you, into a bureaucratic labyrinth with me, in pursuit of constitutional rights and government transparency. In April, anonymous

Bad news for consumer advocates who experienced a flutter of hope this week when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) swapped Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) -- an opponent

The agency that would be responsible for oversight of the Keystone XL pipeline has not studied the safety measures necessary for a pipeline that carries tar sands crude. The U.S. State Dept.

San Antonio’s City Council extended health benefits to city employees’ domestic partners Thursday night with a 7-4 vote, ending weeks of debate at City Hall and

Yesterday, the Senate passed by overwhelming margins two amendments to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill: One sponsored by Sen.

UK newspaper The Guardian this week picked up a story that’s been a source of exasperation for environmental advocates since it broke Monday. The news that

President Obama’s decision early this month to side with anti-regulation business interests against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop a