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Suit was filed in Denver District Court Thursday in an effort to overturn laws passed by the Colorado Legislature restricting patient access to medical marijuana.

For the past five days, the Iranian opposition has been subject to vicious beatings at the hands of regime goons, with at least eight people killed. Now it’s

More scrutiny of President Obama’s proposed bank regulations coming this week. Not only will Paul Volcker, chairman of the White House Economic Recovery

Mitt Romney’s CPAC experiences since 2007 have been fairly fraught affairs. On the one hand, he always wins the activist straw poll. On the other hand, exhibit

Members of the government in Washington, reviled by the majority of the American public as a pack of partisan, petty, do-nothings, took action this weekend. Democrats and Republicans joined together in an inspired last-ditch effort that succeeded in repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy banning gay soldiers from serving openly. The 17-year-old policy reflected a confused transitional moment in U.S

More than a dozen members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to President Obama and to the Inspector General of the U.S. State Department requesting an investigation of the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline.

A new report from the National Employment Law Project shows that many states, faced with serious budget problems, have passed laws limiting access to unemployment insurance benefits — including Michigan, of course. State lawmakers enacted a range of policies in 2011 to amend their unemployment insurance (UI) programs, most of them motivated by insolvent state trust funds. Most notably, six states passed unprecedented cuts in the duration of benefits, for the first time reducing benefit weeks to less than the decades-long accepted standard of 26 weeks.

Noah Shachtman at Danger Room has an alarming post about Tara O’Toole, the Obama administration’s pick to become Undersecretary of Homeland Security for Science

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

Business leaders, Democrats and LGBT groups are unified in one aspect of their opposition to a Republican Senate bill that would but a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on the ballot in 2012: Gay marriage is a distraction from Minnesota’s economic needs.

A few days after the Drug Enforcement Administration ruled that marijuana has no medicinal use, and a month or so after a prestigious international commission concluded the drug war was a colossal failure , The Denver Post documented the ongoing drug war with a story about Mexican tour bus operators busted for bringing tens of millions of dollars of pot to Denver.

In a press release sent out today, environmental law firm Earthjustice alleges that Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, is “shutting out the public” and “refusing to invite” clean water advocates to his upcoming hearing on water pollution standards in Florida. According to the release, only representatives from the sewage, agriculture and fertilizer industries have been invited to testify

Michael Steele’s chances of holding his current position as Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman for a second term are growing dimmer by the day. One of

Inside the U.S. Capitol (Pic by ThatMakesThree, via Flickr) An anti-abortion rights campaign called “Voices From the Womb” will perform live ultrasounds on pregnant women on Capitol Hill as part of the launch of a national campaign in October

A group of nine recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, including Bishop Tutu of South Africa and the Dalai Lama of Tibet, have written a letter to President Obama urging him to reject the application to build the Keystone XL pipeline. The letter reads, in part: The night you were nominated for president, you told the world that under your leadership—and working together—the rise of the oceans will begin to slow and the planet will begin to heal. You spoke of creating a clean energy economy.

DES MOINES — U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned guests of an event organized Iowans for Tax Relief Friday night that America is “under attack” by a “thundercloud of debt weighing upon ” “What I’m believing is, I think, the truth of where we are in the country,” Bachmann said.

Hundreds of Occupy Des Moines demonstrators will march on Terrace Hill on Saturday, part of an international “Robin Hood Tax” day of action.

Fox News’ morning show Fox & Friends on Wednesday oversimplified and misrepresented an ongoing news story about a former Democratic congressman, an

For the past eight months, a group of volunteer Iowa activists have been contributing to these Power Rankings and attempting to answer what GOP candidate is positioned to capture caucus gold if the event was tonight. The panelists have watched as candidates entered the race, surged to the top and then were found to be lacking the necessities that lead to a caucus win: consistent messaging, grassroots organization and activist energy and loyalty. The panel, which is comprised of our staff, academics, political consultants, GOP activists, local party officials and other state political reporters, is well positioned to gauge the strength of the campaigns in Iowa.

Source: MyEyesSees, Flickr A Florida-based group that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled an anti-gay hate group is taking aim at Minnesota-based Target for advertising during a Teen Nick show, Degrassi, that contains gay characters.

An interesting scene from a health care town hall held by Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), a Democrat who easily won a House seat in 2006 in a district carried by

The Department of Health and Human Services included a provision in its recent decision to make birth control a preventative service that would allow religious groups to refuse to cover contraceptive services. # The federal agency today announced it would be following the Institute of Medicine’s recommendation to include birth control and contraceptive services on a list of preventative care as the Affordable Care Act is implemented

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, on the McCain campaign trail, reports that the strangest thing about Sen. John McCain’s rally in Columbus, Ohio, was California