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Earlier this month, a CNN poll found that more Americans oppose the Afghanistan war than support it for (what I think was) the first time since the 2001

The unemployment rate dropped slightly for the month of October to 9 percent, according to the U.S. Labor Department. About 80,000 non-farm jobs were added

An Austin-based anti-abortion group’s foray into the Northeast media market is causing quite the controversy. According to Texas Secretary of State records,

It’s earnings week on Wall Street, and analysts had estimated that megabank Citigroup would break even in the first quarter. This morning, it announced a $4.4

The ’Architect’ himself, the man who dodged an indictment in the Valerie Plame affair, speaks out on the late Robert D. Novak: He was a remarkable journalist

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Afghanistan -– National security reporter Spencer Ackerman rides along with Alpha Cavalry Troop’s First Platoon in search of a weapons cache in Afghanistan.

This morning, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission heard from Robert Rubin and Charles Prince, the former heads of banking behemoth Citigroup. Prince

The National Association of Counties has released data from a nationwide survey that indicates that counties across the U.S.

On the radio program of conservative talker Laura Ingraham, Michele Bachmann rattled off a litany of complaints against China, accusing the country of blinding U.S. satellites with lasers, selling weapons to terrorist regimes and engaging in cyber attacks on both U.S. businesses and the military.

GOP candidate and U.S. Rep.

One more Republican to add to the list of hard-line illegal immigration critics being accused of employing undocumented workers: A Nevada woman claims Brian

Stop SB 48, one of the leading committees trying to repeal a new California law that, starting next year, will require schools to teach historical contributions

Though it was initially critiqued for being too radical , the “fetal personhood” movement has been making waves across the country — and seems to be gaining steam. In a new post on the Personhood USA website, the group says its movement’s influence is being seen across the cross: in legislation, billboard campaigns and presidential debates. # Touting recent comments made by presidential candidate Rick Santorum, the group says it is gaining influence on the national scene.

As the Nebraska legislature prepares for a special session to discuss how to respond to the seemingly imminent approval of the Keystone XL pipeline by the U.S. State Department, an attorney there says a bill to reroute the pipeline may survive a legal challenge: A prominent attorney advising Nebraska state senators said Tuesday that legislators can craft a law that influences routing of crude-oil pipelines without risking an expensive legal defeat

With just over 14 months remaining before the Iowa Caucus, National Journal’s The Hotline has released its Presidential Power Rankings, assessing the viability

New York schools were strongly discouraged in a memo Monday from asking for information related to students’ immigration status during the enrollment process, a

Minnesota Independent reporter Sam Lane appeared on Your Call radio in San Francisco on July 8. Aired on KALW Public Radio in San Francisco, Your Call hosts a weekly Media Roundtable during which journalists comment on and discuss the coverage of some of the world’s biggest stories. Lane discussed Minnesota’s government shutdown as well as the controversy surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney worries that the U.S. troop withdrawal from urban Iraqi areas might waste all the tremendous sacrifice that has gotten us to

Jim Geraghty reports that Republicans are starting to worry about the race for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) old House seat, a chunk of upstate New York

Private employers added just 1,420 jobs per state in July -- not nearly enough to make up for job losses in the government, 50,000 of which were

Federal agencies have stepped up efforts to crack down on medical marijuana, and while high-profile ATF raids may be more immediately shocking, there is a less