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Some good news from the Labor Department this morning: Mass layoffs, where an employer fired more than 50 workers within a month, decreased year-on-year and

Sen. Barack Obama is focused on large swing-state rallies in the campaign’s homestretch, but he just carved out precious time to address a more dispersed

The Washington Post has a great story that looks at the opening phases of the forthcoming U.S.-NATO-Afghan push to take the regions surrounding Kandahar city

David Lane, the influential California-based activist the New York Times has called “a stealth weapon for the right,” typically avoids the mainstream media

Many Republicans, including the governor of Alabama, are hesitating to publicly praise Alabama’s controversial immigration law, most of which remains in effect

An eclectic group of experts assessed the nuances of counterinsurgency and troop increases at a panel on Wednesday.

When is it fair to accuse a member of Congress of being a birther? I’m wrestling with this a little today. Jason Linkins calls Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) a

To add some clarity and context to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s disclosure this morning that the U.S. intelligence budget is $75 billion,

Jill Iscol was giddy. She was scrunched up in a chair in an office of the apartment she and her husband -- the telecom giant Ken Iscol -- own on the Upper

A couple of weeks ago, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East and South Asia, demurred on an attempt by David Gregory to

News that’s two days old but worth a second mention: District of Columbia Public Schools is instituting a standardized test that will gauge students’ health

In a McCain campaign conference call with reporters this morning, Randy Scheunemann, senior foreign-policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, took a question from The

Have the Democrats’ attacks on Crossroads GPS and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s shadowy financing hit or missed? Turns out they’ve done a little bit of

The Environmental Protection Agency released its guidance for determining the best technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at large facilities today --

Gov. Rick Snyder’s campaign to reduce obesity may be impeded by federal agricultural subsidies that make junk food cheaper than fruits and vegetables. In a new report — Apples to Twinkies: Comparing Federal Subsidies of Fresh Produce and Junk Food — the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan finds that between 1995 and 2010 Americans spent over $260 billion on agricultural subsidies, with most of the money going to commodity crops like corn and soybeans, which are processed into high fructose corn syrup and oil and used in snack foods

Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning (Pic via dos.state.fl.us) A Miami judge today threw out a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the state’s plans to implement its controversial elections overhaul in 62 counties while a handful of other counties await preclearance from the federal government. The Sun Sentinel reports : The ACLU argued that the state couldn’t implement the law in some of the counties while waiting to see if the law passed federal muster in the five counties subject to the Voting Rights Act

On a conference call with reporters just moments ago, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) voiced a cautious optimism over President Obama’s rejection of the automakers’

Yesterday’s landmark Wall Street Journal piece about Afghanistan featured an anonymous military official who downplayed the significance of the Marine campaign

A self-described “center right” Hispanic Republican group announced its two New Mexico state coordinators on Thursday. The Hispanic Leadership Network named Jamie Estrada, a former Bush administration official, and Christopher Saucedo, an Albuquerque attorney, to run the group’s grassroots outreach efforts in the state. In September, HLN kicked off its efforts in the Southwest by holding a conference in Albuquerque having as keynote speaker Gov.