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More than 200,000 people gathered on the National Mall today to participate in March for America, a rally advocating comprehensive immigration

Friday saw the end of the first act in Texas’ fight over new district maps drawn by the State Legislature earlier this year. Today, the U.S. Department of

A Senate aide says lawmakers are working on an agreement that could clear the way for an initial procedural vote on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.)

As While House leaders, Democrats and Republicans in Congress engaged in contentious debate over an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday, anti-abortion-rights

U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack became the first House Democrat Friday to co-sponsor proposed legislation that would set the age at which members of Congress are eligible to draw from their pension to the age of retirement under the Social Security Act.

The markup session for the landmark Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill is underway in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live webcast from C-SPAN). And

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has shot down Indiana’s plan to defund Planned Parenthood in its Medicaid plan.

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Here’s the video of the day: Neil Cavuto of Fox News reacting to the Dow Jones index’s recovery by asking his first guest whether former President George W.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) records a promotional video for the Take the Town Halls to DC campaign, promising activists some more results for this bout of

Via USA Today, White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer has denied that the administration is pressuring Senate Democrats to forge a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman

The situation with the Pakistanis is deteriorating by the minute. On Sunday they fired warning shots at U.S. helicopters in Pakistani airspace. Yesterday they

New unemployment numbers for July are out today, and they show a slight drop in the jobless rate, to 9.4 percent -- the first decline since April of 2008,

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the group behind a federal lawsuit against Perry for his involvement in a controversial Aug. 6 prayer rally, is revving up

A Guantanamo detainee’s transfer to the United States for trial is at odds with the president’s call for a new system of indefinite imprisonment.

NASHVILLE -- I’m so proud to be an American! Happy birthday, Ronald Reagan. Sarah Palin took the stage of the National Tea Party Convention to a thundering

The Obama administration homebuyer tax credit program granted $9.1 million to 1,295 prisoners who were incarcerated when they said they purchased their home.

With a cloture vote to open formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill scheduled for 5 p.m. this evening, Senate Democrats

Via Eric Kleefeld, a new CNN poll shows President Obama’s plan to end the war in 2011 to be astoundingly popular: 70 percent approve and 29 percent don’t. It’s

China, where, as a matter of policy, the yuan is deliberately undervalued in order to keep Chinese exports cheap, is now attacking the U.S. for its weak

Hurricane McCain arrived in Florida today. To coincide with Sen. John McCain’s two-day visit, the Florida Democratic Party unveiled a new Website that features