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Jesse Watters, the infamous Fox News producer who’s sometimes dispatched to ambush people who’ve said mean things about Bill O’Reilly, made the rounds of the

Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who’s leading a virtual march on Washington this week to push his energy plan, participated in a Center for American

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who has been in the news lately for staking out anti-Obama stances on immigration and health care reform, admitted to

Senate Democrats are piecing together another stimulus bill designed to tackle the ongoing unemployment crisis, but if the reports coming out of Capitol Hill

Washington is initiating a program to help the unemployed stay in their homes: Qualified applicants will get zero-interest loans of up to $50,000 for two years

When Congress passed rules to reign in the most usurious of credit card practices, many Americans cheered. When Congress moved up the deadline for companies to

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The insurance industry over the weekend released a controversial report indicating that Americans’ insurance premiums would shoot up by thousands of dollars if

Jake Tapper reports from the White House press briefing today: “One of the very first things that Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula used as a recruiting tool

That’s what the Dallas Voice wants to know after a petition calling on Gold’s Gym to stop supporting anti-gay politicians started gathering signatures and media

In April, we ran a piece about how some Democrats had bowed to the wishes of the banking industry and delayed their credit card reforms until next year, even as

I wrote last week about how some members of the Get Afghanistan Right coalition were working to support a blogger to write frequent critiques of the Afghanistan

The Obama administration has led a furious charge to convince Congress to help states meet their budget needs -- so far, to no avail.

This week, Campaign for Healthy Denver activists, dressed in infectious disease masks, turned in 12,000 petition signatures for a ballot initiative that would give paid sick days to Denver workers. The group has collected three times the nearly 4000 signatures required and the Denver City Clerk now has 25 days to certify them

Bloomberg reports that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has picked up seven super delegates today, including Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) who switched his endorsement

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that South Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings faces an ethics investigation stemming from sexual harassment allegations: # It began at least a month ago after Judicial Watch, a conservative group, filed a lawsuit as the legal counsel for Winsome Packer, a staffer on a commission Mr.

A group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that the State Department extend their review of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Bringing a little class to the NBA finals, thinkb4youspeak is running public service announcements during the games, with athletes, including Phoenix Suns star Grant Hill, letting sports fans know that saying “that’s so gay” or using words like “fag” and “queer” as pejoratives is just not OK. The GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) Sports Project is working with high schools and high school athletes around the country to educate kids on showing respect toward people of all sexual orientations.

Tonight’s State of the Union address will likely be full of many showy bipartisan moments. President Obama will likely make a number of statements about

The effort may provide a test as to how deep American support is for an Afghanistan war.