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The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, feeling the pressure from his diminishing popularity, has been hinting he wants to negotiate a deal to draw at least some

The environmental group Friends of the Earth released more emails between the U.S.

The FBI is investigating threats to Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), an aye vote on health care. The threats go all the way up to a severed gas line at the house

Here’s the OLC memo from May 30, 2005, which states that enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA are consistent with United States

Contrary to the expectations of many of us who’ve been speculating about this for months, it’s looking like President George W. Bush may well leave office

Earlier this morning, President Obama announced a set of criteria for states to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law following a long period

Probably the strangest celebrity of the Tea Parties is Bob Basso, a motivational speaker who started recording YouTube videos as Thomas Paine and was briskly

Congress has never before let federally extended unemployment benefits drop with an unemployment rate so high: That is the takeaway from a searing new report

Illegal immigrants could get up to 300,000 construction jobs financed by the federal stimulus, reports USA Today. Based on studies conducted by two

As the debate over the possible lapse or extension of the Bush tax cuts heats up in anticipation of Congress’ post-election return next week, you might have

Iowa partisans are going about the business of recruiting or nominating candidates for a special election in Iowa Senate District 18, but what’s at stake goes far beyond the boundaries of the small region in eastern Iowa. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad announced last week that he was appointing Sen.

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Though the state Department of Agriculture has begun ramping up its campaign to educate Floridians about the safety of gulf seafood, some remain unconvinced that it is as safe for consumption as the Food and Drug Administration has claimed. Just last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonpartisan environmental advocacy group, filed a petition with the FDA, demanding that the agency “recognize the hazards posed by PAHs in seafood and set a health protective standard.” PAHs, or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, are pollutants that have been shown to cause cancer in both animals and humans

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Remember when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) ran for re-election? Here’s a refresher: Californians dodged a bullet. Instead of having their taxes

Former Gov. Blagojevich (D-Ill.) lost everything this year. Blagojevich stands accused of trying to sell the appointment to replace Barack Obama in the

Sen. Charles Schumer says there are enough votes in the Senate to pass an immigration bill.

While you were rending your garment over Chas Freeman, this is happening, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman: The U.S. government still

In this fourth edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists give nods to their widest field of potential candidates thus far, spreading their predictions between 13 individuals. Most also see 2012 shaping up as an outsiders-versus-establishment gambit, with the establishment winning if the grassroots are fractured. Former Arkansas Gov

When future historians dissect the press coverage of the first black person to run as the presidential nominee of a major party, they will surely marvel at all

Watch out for simplistic reporting on a new study on the impact of climate change legislation on the Midwest. So far, reports on the study are

In recent weeks more than 60 people -- including seven police officers -- have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.

Though Exxon Mobil initially insisted that the pipeline that ruptured and spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River this month carried only low sulfur crude from Wyoming, the company has now acknowledged that the pipeline is used to transport tar sands crude from Alberta. Oil from the Canadian tar sands is produced by melting asphalt-like deposits and must be diluted with lightweight and volatile chemicals in order to flow through pipelines. Tar sands oil is known to be more corrosive that other types of crude and it contains more heavy metals

Congress is finally getting around to asking a question it should have asked long ago, before doling out billions of dollars to troubled insurance giant AIG -