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State officials have ordered a review of the finances of the Highland Park School system, which has lost more than half its students in the last four years and is facing a $19.9 million deficit. Under Michigan’s Emergency Manager law, financial review is the first step in a process that can result in take over of a school system.

Undocumented workers make up large proportions of the nation’s chefs, cooks and dishwashers, and as the Obama administration shifts much of its immigration

Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ statements yesterday that he expects the United States will have to transfer up to 100 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the

Matthew Yglesias reports that Mancow, the libertarian/conservative shock jock, had himself waterboarded as a stunt to prove that the practice was not torture.

Joining Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who announced that she could no longer attend the National Tea Party Convention being held in her own state, Rep.

This video continues a conversation about anti-LGBT bullying that was started during the 2011 legislative session when lawmakers passed a bill that clearly defines bullying and specifically protects LGBT young people. The new law, which went into effect this school year, also requires each school district to adopt a comprehensive anti-bullying policy. “The new law is an important step toward addressing the pervasive problem of bullying against Colorado’s most vulnerable young people.

Kenneth Feinberg, who is taking over the BP claims process on Aug. 23, told Gulf Coast residents today that he is meeting in Washington, D.C., tomorrow to

A Christian group says it will target U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann over her opposition to President Obama’s jobs plan.

According to a poll released last week by Public Policy Polling , Colorado voters narrowly favor making same-sex marriage legal and favor legalizing civil unions by a more than 3-1 margin. “Colorado is the first ‘purple’ state where we’ve found a plurality of voters in support of gay marriage

As President Obama prepares to announce a plan next week to create more jobs, another fight over extending federal unemployment benefits is likely in the offing between the White House and the Republican-led House of Representatives. The San Francisco Chronicle reports : The president has called for another extension of benefits

The latest development in the battle over Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s mileage tax proposal: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman

Well, that was more interesting than anyone could have reasonably expected it to be. The sense I’m getting from conservatives and GOP strategists is that the

Some good news on the birther front: a Deseret News/KSL-TV poll finds that only 9 percent of Utahns (13 percent of Republicans) don’t believe the president

When m ultiple media outlets reported Friday that Michele Bachmann’s entire campaign staff in New Hampshire had departed, Bachmann went on the defensive, blaming the media for fabricating the story. As it turned out, Bachmann had lost two of her five campaign staffer in New Hampshire, but nobody told her until after the press started calling.

In Boulder, there is little debate over the cause of climate change.

Our sister publication, The Florida Independent, has a great story this morning on industry lobbying against the Environmental Protection Agency’s water quality

One of the more sensational aspects of the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 review is that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s name was inconsistently spelled by State

My colleague Luke Johnson got some reaction from the Sierra Club on Kendrick Meek’s rejection of the environmental group’s endorsement. Meek rejected the

North Korea hasn’t really been a Center for a New American Security core competency -- there’s little application for the stability-operations end of the

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Credit card companies might be unpopular, and reform legislation might be inevitable. But, as Democratic leaders have learned this month, that doesn’t mean

At The Wall Street Journal, Gerald Seib lays out President Obama’s biggest problem as he unveils his proposals for regulatory overhaul today -- the Goldilocks

Speaking of Pakistan, the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill giving the Pakistani civilian government $7.5 billion over five years has become a fiasco, with the Pakistani