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One of the ideas for financial regulatory reform that President Barack Obama will outline today is the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency,

About 25 people gathered Thursday afternoon in front of the Bank of America building in downtown Des Moines for a “jobs not cuts” rally, showing support for the occupy movement, President Obama’s jobs bill and safety net programs. The rally, organized by Moveon.org and the AFL-CIO, said Bank of America has become a symbol of greed.

The Arizona Senate just passed the controversial Senate bill 1070 (Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act), one of the toughest immigration

Testifying this morning before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East and South Asia, has yet

The Washington Post reported today that a new report by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute that says there is a plume of oil in the Gulf of Mexico that

Toward the end of President Bush’s remarks today announcing his plan to throw GM and Chrysler a lifeline, he included a line about American workers. He

Minneapolis-based retailer Target told investors on Wednesday that the company will not be taking sides on the anti–gay marriage amendment slated for the 2012 ballot. The shareholders meeting in Pittsburgh, the first held since a nationwide boycott targeted the stores last fall over its corporate contributions to Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, drew protesters critical of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and members of the LGBT community. Target’s announcement comes as Twin Cities LGBT Pride festivities get under way — an event for which Target is a major sponsor

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board’s much-anticipated vote on a custom license plate featuring the Confederate flag wasn’t quite the nail-biter it had

A smart piece in The New York Times on Sunday noted that the Pentagon is rethinking its defense posture that prepares for fighting two wars at the same time, a

Several demonstrations and candlelight vigils are taking place Thursday evening in memory of a 19-year-old Waterloo man who died over the weekend following a violent attack. Marcellus Richard Andrews (Photo: Facebook) Marcellus Andrews, of Waterloo, was taken off life support Saturday and officially pronounced dead on Sunday. In the early morning hours of Friday, he was part of a violent brawl that witnesses described as beginning with anti-gay slurs.

In an interview today with MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell, former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein agreed with former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger’s

Talk about rubbing salt in the wound. Now that Sen. John McCain has officially lost the presidency, Politico reminds him that he still has an audit to look

Jason Leopold at The Public Record has acquired some important inside information about a still-classified report written by the Justice Department’s Office

Weeks before U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) pushed for the elimination of government-backed loan programs, she and her husband, Marcus, signed documents to finance a $417,000 home loan, which experts told The Washington Post was backed by the very programs Bachmann had aimed to destroy

Today, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner called the unemployment rate in the United States unacceptable by any metric. Of course, he then warned that it would

Former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), whose opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will win him that award at next weekend’s Conservative Political Action

Housing Wire weighs in today with a cautionary note on the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, making the same point we did in our pieces this week on loan

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It’s not a substitute for clarity on whatever it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised her about his commitment to peace, but Laura Rozen

Call me a kiss-up, particularly after this, but when was the last time you saw an author publicly admit to coming off like a jerk in his book? Mr Nordlinger

This morning, ADP, a payroll processing firm, put out its latest employment report. It isn’t good. Between July and August, private employers shed an estimated