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AIG CEO Edward Liddy said today that he’s asked AIG employees who received bonuses larger than $100,000 to give half the money back, and that some AIG employees

While Gov. Rick Perry’s push for legislation banning sanctuary cities won him a cool reception from Texas Latino leaders last month, the bill’s failure has

Despite new lobbying and ethics reforms, big business uses events like the political conventions to gain all-important access.

The Michigan Messenger reports that Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.) is looking to stimulate the local economy by importing prisoners from

Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage has perfected the art of the salt-in-the-wound press release. His message to supporters on Scott Brown:

One of the big themes of yesterday’s Code Red rally on Capitol Hill was Listen to me. That slogan appeared on buttons sported by members of conservative

Just in time to throw another twist into the health reform debate, the Government Accountability Office reported today that Medicaid is paying to fill

On a conference call with reporters to release an unclassified version of the new National Intelligence Strategy, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair

The Obama administration has cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as it attempts to move toward closing the detention camp by

President Obama has named Fred H. Bartlit Jr. as chief counsel for The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, a

I talked briefly to former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) last night, before he addressed the inaugural meeting of Young Americans for Western Civilization, a new

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has added four new members to his Iowa leadership team that represent all three sections of the state

Yesterday at the Heritage Foundation, U.K. Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox spoke about the state of the war in Afghanistan. He argued that effective

CNN political reporter Peter Hamby has the non-Iran tweet of the day: What is it with those two?

A new round of confrontation between demonstrators in Des Moines and law enforcement may erupt Friday night when a temporary permit allowing for 24-hour occupation of grounds on the west side of the Iowa Capitol expires. Participants and supporters of the Occupy Des Moines movement — a loosely-knit group that generally objects to perceived ongoing political and economic inequalities — are currently meeting to discuss a possible path ahead if their permit, state officials say was only issued for a three-day time period, expires at 11 p.m

The conservative GOP leader from Arizona blurts out that Rush Limbaugh is a television personality. The journalistic ballet, of switching on Limbaugh’s show

Rassmussen Reports, the pollster whose surveys of likely voters most often show the worst numbers for President Obama and the Democrats, finds support for

Speaking of returning the United States to an active role in Arab-Israeli peace processing, here’s a statement just issued by new White House press secretary

The Judiciary subcommittee didn’t, ultimately, get a copy of Philip Zelikow’s 2005 memorandum opposing torture, written when he was counselor to the State

The Comcast’s acquisition of a controlling stack in NBC Universal, approved on Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), included a stipulation