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A new law would require inmates entering the Michigan Department of Corrections to give a DNA sample when they are first put into the system. Currently inmates have to submit to a DNA sampling upon leaving lockup. The new law would require inmate sampling within the first 90 days of being in the jailhouse, reports Examiner.com

As soon as the Occupy Wall Street spinoffs began popping up in Austin, Dallas and Houston, local labor unions stepped up to endorse the movements around the

CARROLL — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says the country is finally catching up to his brand of politics and economic thinking. For three decades, the libertarian-leaning Texan has preached limited government, a smaller role not only domestically in the form of lower taxes but also abroad, with a less adventurous foreign policy

As Attorney General Eric Holder announced this afternoon that the Department of Justice (DoJ) has begun a criminal and civil investigation into the catastrophic

Environmental groups are concerned that the appointment of Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to the

Taxpayers for Common Sense, a policy watchdog group, has gotten its hands on an early draft of the Democrats’ plans to bailout Detroit’s automakers, and

David Espo of the Associated Press says that the part of President Obama’s jobs bill that includes another extension of federal unemployment benefits is likely to pass the U.S. House while other parts will be shot down. Congress will almost certainly approve the parts of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill that extend the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits

In an action that resulted in seven arrests, Occupy Wall Street protesters in Minneapolis Thursday took their more almost two-week long protest to U.S. Bank, a frequent target of protesters’ criticism that corporations and banks dominate the political system.

Sure, airport security rules are being rewritten after the near-explosion of Northwest Airlines Flight 253. And sure, major newspapers are reviewing the current

When Utah recently passed a package of immigration bills that offered a guest worker program along with stricter enforcement of existing immigration laws, some hailed the package as a breath of fresh air–a vote for moderation in what all too often has become a very contentious debate. Writing in the Sacramento Bee, Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA , a national federation of small-business owners advocating immigration reform, says the Utah package is all that an more. She notes that while parts of the Utah package are unconstitutional on their face, they point the way to a new way of approaching the issue and, if adopted by other states, could provide the momentum needed to get the U.S

Sandra Irick is sweating out in the long line, and she’s not even close to the front of it. She drove downtown today from Temple Hills, Md., in Prince George’s

The conservative congressman from Iowa goes a little off-message, via my colleague Jason Hancock at The Iowa Independent. King’s response to the Reid flap, on

I guess I see what Washington Times mainstay Wes Pruden is trying to say here, but there could be a less Cecil Rhodes-ian way of expressing it. Mr. Obama’s

The Miami Herald is reporting that Florida’s unemployment rate stayed static at 10.7 percent from July to August. Via a press release posted by the Herald : Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in August 2011 is 10.7 percent. This represents 987,000 jobless out of a labor force of 9,201,000

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on March 4, 2009. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s

The Huffington Post flags this story from The Times of London, which examines the state of the presidential race in Iowa, where Sen. John McCain clings to the

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made no announcements today about the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, despite

At 8pm on Saturday night, young people in Traverse City were gathered downtown and jubilantly shouting “Down with Corporate America!” and “The World is Waking Up!” “I feel like our rights are being taken away and this is kind of helping,” said Sawyer Hentschell, 18, as he stood with his friends across from Chase Bank downtown. “The bank bailout has put everyone deeper in debt.” Hentschell said that he was inspired to protest by his older sister, and this was his first demonstration. What outcome is he hoping for

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on July 30, 2009. Because servicers in the lending