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Today, the conference committee merging the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform agreed to water down a provision randomizing the assignment

Before it’s all lost to the memory hole, here are the top bloggers who were duped by Bill Ayers’ sarcastic confession of authorship of Barack Obama’s first

Congress hits exotic locales on the taxpayer’s dime. Comedian, yes, but Franken’s no clown. Senators who orchestrated TARP hold another title vis-a-vis

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hundreds of teachers, parents and community activists will attend a two-day action conference at American University in Washington, D.C.,

I’ve just spoken to Andrew Breitbart, the proprietor of Big Government--the website which published and promoted James O’Keefe’s undercover sting of ACORN

One point about this Iraqi Interior Ministry raid conducted by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s forces. I noticed my reporting about it earlier today had a fair

PHILADELPHIA -- With a steady stream of info on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- including a torrent from TWI’s own Laura McGann, now on the scene in Alaska --

Google is planning to fork over about $200 million in an initial investment to help build a massive set of power lines along the East Coast that would help move

The administration insists there is no constitutional right to humane treatment by U.S. authorities outside the United States.

Climate chief Sir Nicholas Stern tells us to go vegetarian; conservative bloggers cry radical wacko. The SuperFreakonomics authors shrug off criticism on the

A controversial bill that would have made it a crime to take photographs of ag facilities in Florida has met its demise for this session, but similar legislation remains a possibility in Minnesota and Iowa.

In the acknowledgments of Going Rogue, Sarah Palin gives a hearty and extended thanks to conservative media figures, using only their first names. To some

John Conyers (D-Detroit) could have a tough time keeping a seat in Congress under the Republican redistricitng plan that is expected to be approved by Gov. Rick Snyder. Politico reports: The redistricting plan crafted by Michigan Republicans tears Conyers’s strongholds of Detroit’s West Side and Highland Park out of the 14th District and sticks him with hundreds of thousands of new constituents in nearby Oakland County and the wealthy lakeside Grosse Pointe communities.

I covered Eric Holder’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony yesterday, so I was unable to cover a fascinating and near-simultaneous hearing on Iran in the

We’re still waiting to hear what’s happening in Vienna, where Iran is negotiating with the international community over whether to allow 75 percent of its

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For the second time in 12 months, the Los Angeles Times published a comprehensive evaluation of teachers within the Los Angeles Unified School District last

Smart progressives like Christy Hardin Smith, Eric Martin, and Steve Benen are overthinking Richard Perle’s insistence that neoconservative foreign policy

The Republican National Committee emails reporters to announce a hefty fundraising haul for June that leaves it with $23.7 million in the bank, a solid amount

Let’s say there’s this really expensive fighter aircraft that you don’t use in the two wars you’re fighting. You’ve got 183 of them coming, but that’s just not

Dr. Rand Paul, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Kentucky who happens to be the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is in Washington for two days of meetings,