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Manu Raju’s lede from his latest dispatch on former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) endless legal bids to stop the Senate from seating Al Franken is a

Two Democratic members of the Iowa Senate are among more 150 lawmakers from 26 states who have filed a friend of the court brief in defense of last year’s federal health care reform, placing them in direct opposition to Gov. Terry Branstad who joined the suit against the law

James M. Chaparro, director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Detention and Removal Operations, apparently implemented his own plan to

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) This Saturday, 34 churches in Florida will host a viewing of “One Nation Under God,” which is being promoted as a “two-hour premiere DVD event featuring top American thinkers and political leaders who will bring the truth about God and America to people gathered in homes and churches across the nation.” The event is a thinly veiled national get-out-the-vote push for the religious right.

Unnamed administration officials quoted by David Cho of The Washington Post say the federal deficit is lower than the White House’s initial projections. The

Sharron Angle, the Republican opponent to Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, released an ad today bashing Reid’s support for preferred college tuition rates for

So we knew earlier today that the U.S.-Russia New START nuclear reductions treaty caps deployed warheads at 1,550, a 30 percent reduction from the Bush-Putin

The head of contract compliance for Blackwater, Fred Roitz, told Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) that he has never known that hundreds of weapons Blackwater employees

Three lawmakers from Minnesota have requested extensions for filing mandated financial disclosure reports.

Despite accepting nearly a quarter-million dollars from PACs since the November election, Texas’ three newest GOP congressmen had some $2 million in combined

Just under the wire, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., got her official comments in on the controversial Colorado Roadless Rule Thursday, sending them to the U.S

Carla Bruni claims Michelle Obama said being First Lady is hell. Jim DeMint defends his backing Christine O’Donnell. ...and Palin tells her to speak

Some members of Iowa’s faith community received an invitation in their mailbox this week from the Iowa Renewal Project, which is featuring Texas Gov. Rick Perry in an all-expenses-paid Pastors’ Policy Briefing in Des Moines next month. The invitation differs little from those that have gone out previously to Iowa pastors and church leaders.

As mentioned earlier, tomorrow morning Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Amb. Karl Eikenberry begin two days of hearings on the revised Afghanistan strategy. I’ll be

Citizen activists in the natural gas drilling hotspot of western Garfield County, Colo., apparently caught Halliburton employees on tape working in and around a

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Bill Smith, the teenage medical marijuana patient whose quest for an education The Colorado Independent has chronicled over the past month, made the TV news again last night in Colorado Springs. Click on photo for video.

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) visited one of his favorite punching bags today, appearing in Washington, D.C., as part of a national tour for his new book, Fed Up!:

It’s the morning after, so let’s see how bankers felt about being in the hot seat Wednesday before Congress. Top financial executives of banks that received

Reaction to the passage of a Republican anti–gay marriage amendment in the Minnesota Senate on Wednesday was swift. “They have made a grave, grave mistake, and I think they will see that soon,” Sen.

Have you ever been confused about your credit score, or tried to figure out exactly how your score was compiled? You’re not alone. Apparently, mortgage

If you thought that the health care reform bill was so expertly thought through as to prevent health insurance companies from engaging in the same end run