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Today, Senator Mark Udall called for the prosecution and/or firing of those involved in the improper handling of the remains of service men and women by the Dover Air Force Base.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has decided to take a second look at the case of a Canadian citizen interrogated by the U.S. in Syria.

The same week that anti-abortion-rights advocates and Catholic colleges pushed the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include contraception in

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

No shocker here. It’s not just the gay and lesbian community that’s going after President-elect Barack Obama for his choice to have Rick Warren, the socially

Cindy Golding, the Republican candidate in a special election for Senate District 18, raised $42,038 from Oct. 15 to Nov.

The highway connecting Tampa, Lakeland, Daytona Beach and Orlando may be the most important political real estate in the nation because it holds the key to the biggest chunk of independent voters in the biggest of all battleground states. These voters’ anxieties and financial troubles have now pushed the Democratic nominee ahead of his Republican rival in the polls there.

Keying off the rumors that Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens may retire, I asked Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice, the group that

The least complex explanation for derivatives, and particularly the credit default swaps that drove this financial crisis, is that they are a form of

Amid fears that Switzerland might come to an agreement with the United States on banking privacy and tax evasion disclosures, Credit Suisse issued a report

A couple months ago, I had lunch with Nir Rosen at a god-awful Mexican restaurant he likes. What was I up to these days? he asked. I figured I’d impress my

The un-killable Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s memoirs conspiracy theory got a second (third? seventh?) wind this week after conservative blogger Anne Leary met

For five years, the reasoning behind the U.S. occupation of Iraq has been that the Iraqi government believes that a U.S. military presence is needed to

Just about every news organization out there is reporting that Chicago has been eliminated in the first round of voting as a possible host for the 2016 Olympic

Ken Vogel has a revealing scoop on the Republican Party’s effort to co-opt Tea Party activists -- something anathema to a few activists, something that other

The SAVE Dade logo (Pic via sflchronicle.com) SAVE Dade, a Miami-based LGBT rights group, says it has been “tremendously negatively impacted” by the state’s new voting law, which created new restrictions on third party voter registration. SAVE Dade is one of many advocacy groups in the state that used to run voter registration drives before elections to promote civic engagement. But a new law passed this year has installed new limitations on third-party voter registration drives, and also levies financial penalties on groups that violate those rules. The law also created a shortened “shelf life” for signatures collected for ballot initiatives, placed new restrictions on voters changing their registered addresses on election day, and reduced the number of early voting days

Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today asking her not to prejudge the outcome of an Obama administration review of a

In congressional testimony on Friday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency was again criticized for its proposed numeric nutrient criteria, a set of standards to regulate pollution from nitrogen and phosphorus in Florida waterways. But EPA representatives defended the agency’s decision to implement the standards, arguing that they are needed for the health and safety of citizens and businesses struggling to survive in harsh economic times. # The decision to force the state to implement a stringent set of nutrient criteria came as the result of legislation — but both the EPA and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection had for years been attempting to draft something similar

Another banner supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement appeared over Interstate 235 near downtown Des Moines on Monday morning, at least the third such “banner drops” seen in the last month over the major thoroughfare. A member of Occupy Des Moines claimed responsibility for the banners last month, and at that point said more “drops” would be done. Today’s banner on a walkway spanning the roadway simply read “Occupy.” The group in mid-October placed a banner reading “www.occupydsm.org” on a bike trail across I-235 between 42nd Street and Polk Boulevard

That resolution Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) is expected to introduce Thursday calling for a naval communications channel with Iran? Republican Rep. Geoff Davis