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Obama doesn’t care what Arianna Huffington thinks of his decor. Hillary Clinton visits a statue of Bill in Kosovo. Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown disagree on

To add to Weigel’s post a bit, I’m not sure Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) is really hedging his bets on the Iran resolution he signed onto with Rep. Mike Pence

DTE Energy is repossessing Highland Park’s street lights and selling them as scrap metal as part of a settlement over a $4 million dollar electric bill. Highland Park is a small city that is surrounded by the city of Detroit. Detroit News reports that 14,000 light poles have been removed and locals are complaining that schools and businesses have been targeted by burglars since the city went dark.

First it was Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) urging an outright ban on mountaintop mining in lieu of new EPA restrictions. And now Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is

Last Friday, the Florida Senate drew criticism for sneaking growth management provisions into a budget bill, which would allow lawmakers to bypass the normal legislative process to roll back 25 years of environmental regulations. Members repsponded that they had the votes to pass the bill normally.

Defense Secretary Bob Gates took a tour of the armed services’ war colleges last week to deliver the message that the Army, Navy and Air Force need to focus

A bill that would commit California’s 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote (NPV) in presidential elections was signed into

In the dull drone of a late Friday afternoon in Washington in August -- you know, when absolutely nothing happens? -- FBI Director Robert Muller called Bill

When two African trials last year showed that circumcised men were 60 percent less likely to become infected with HIV than those with foreskins, the World

On the same day GOP presidential contender Jon Huntsman’s campaign manager resigned, the leader of the anti-abortion rights policy group the Susan B. Anthony

In an indication of the full-spectrum pressure that the Obama administration is facing on its plan to close Guantanamo Bay, today a coalition of major civil

During day two of the HELP committee markup to approve the major K-12 education law meant to replace No Child Left Behind, senators proposed various amendments

I don’t want to write too much that steps on the toes of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s forthcoming confirmation hearing to head the State Department, but take a

New narrative alert: Sen. Barack Obama will win this election -- in a landslide. But wait, weren’t all the experts and pundits worrying about Obama’s demise

As Democrats such as Colorado Sen. Mark Udall blame speculation in the financial markets for skyrocketing gas prices, Republicans – including U.S.

True fact: talk to the advisers to Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s 60-day strategy review on Afghanistan and they say that they’re attuned to an erosion of support

In the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, no endorsement is considered more important than that of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). Slate and former Washington

MARION — A handful of voters in Iowa Senate District 18 gathered in the Walmart parking lot Monday morning to hear from Republican candidate Cindy Golding and several social conservative groups that have supported her bid. As is typically the case with most whistle stops of the Values Voter Bus in Iowa, members of the media nearly matched citizens who came out to hear directly from those concerned with cultural issues

Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker story on the demise of the Senate climate bill makes clear that the Obama administration did not take seriously the oil spill risk

<p>&nbsp;Dien Judge over at <em>Iowa Independent</em> has some video that captures Huckabee&rsquo;s surge in popularity in