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Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he will soon be issuing his opinion regarding whether immigrants in immigration proceedings can challenge adverse

Michigan’s Republican-controlled redistricting map has prompted plans by Detroit Reps.

Tom Udall, the Democratic congressman from New Mexico, now running for Senate, gives an exclusive interview with our sister site, NMI, in which he talks about

Today is the day. Now we wait for what Gen. David Petraeus described on Wednesday as two weeks of high-level internal strategy and resource debates to find out

Jim Geraghty takes issue with the president’s Washington Post op-ed, specifically the part criticizing those who think tax cuts alone will solve our

Via TPMDC, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is up with a new advertisement showing his Republican challenger Sharron Angle bashing the unemployed,

Bill Ayers must be having the time of his life. Yep, Shepard Smith has officially gone rogue. Grijalva says over 70 percent of House Dems support a robust

Julie Bass of Oak Park wanted to save some cash on fresh vegetables, so she started a garden this spring. But now, Oak Park officials are dragging her to court over it. The reason?

More seriously now. In Iran there’s something called an Assembly of Experts, a clerical body charged with electing the Supreme Leader and ensuring that he holds

The core inflation rate is holding steady at 0.9 percent, the lowest rate in 44 years. The United States actually experienced a month of deflation in April.

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral argument this morning in a case brought by the ACLU of Michigan on behalf of a woman who was arrested for being too poor to pay child support. In a press release, the ACLU says: The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic are representing Selesa Likine, who lost her job and custody of her three children after being diagnosed with a severe mental illness.

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting story today on the role of states in ensuring pipeline safety. Much of the responsibility for enforcing pipeline

Another year, another position paper from the Center for a New American Security on Iraq. The previous bunch of CNAS Iraq position papers were authored by

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) might have postponed this week’s planned Senate Armed Services Committee briefing on the Fort Hood shooting after President Obama

A conference of U.S. and Mexico border governors is underway in New Mexico, but New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is the only U.S. governor in attendance after

The federal government’s single biggest source of revenue is income tax, but cities and towns are primarily funded by sales and property taxes. That means

When I started calling around Tuesday to the Departments of State and Defense about the prospective loss of Kyrgyzstan’s Manas air base, the critical facility

The Environmental Protection Agency announced late last week that it has chosen seven areas in five states to focus on in an ongoing study of the effects of hydrofracking on water quality. None of the sites are in Michigan, where a great deal of land has been leased to energy companies for possible fracking but little activity has begun. Three of the sites are in Pennsylvania, all located over the Marcellus shale

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has made her decision regarding the 2012 calendar, and has decided to move forward with a date outside of the window established by the Republican and Democratic national committees, which has the potential of forcing the other early states forward