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UPDATE: March 30: Life Always erected three, not one, billboards in Chicago Tuesday; the three are identical and joined side-by-side. Barack Obama is back in

Some GOP figures are being coy about their 2012 presidential ambitions; others, like former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), are broadcasting them loud and clear.

In an interview with Katie Couric, Eric Holder dodged specifics on Justice Department plans.

The bravely flip-flopping Republican congressman from New Orleans, Anh Joseph Cao, has inspired a recall petition. The reason: his vote against the economic

Rick Wagoner may be leaving his position as CEO of General Motors but he’s not going away empty handed. Though he cannot receive a severance package under

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

As more states consider amending their constitutions next year to prohibit gay men and lesbians from marrying, one state, Oregon, is considering the opposite tactic -- overturning a constitutional gay-marriage ban.

Always a sign of strength and capability: Unnerved by another wave of deadly pre-election attacks by Taliban insurgents including a rocket assault aimed at the

There’s a ton of last-minute changes currently happening to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. Below are my updates on the most

Crossroads GPS, a conservative policy and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., is targeting Iowa voters with TV ads in the state’s largest media market. Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, which has ties to former White House deputy chief Karl Rove, has spent $85,125 so far at KCCI, the local CBS affiliate in Des Moines and the state’s largest network TV station.

Building on yesterday’s announcement that Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) didn’t have the votes to strip funding for the Air Force’s F-22 fighter jet from the defense

Rep. Henry Waxman, (D-Calif.) wrote a letter this afternoon to Defense Sec. Robert Gates accusing Harry Sargeant, the head of the International Oil Trading

Minutes after Senate aides briefed reporters on the details of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy bill, disappointed interest groups -- both

Afghan Ambassador Said Jawad doesn’t like people saying candidly that his government and its NATO partners aren’t winning the war against the Taliban-led

From The Times-Picayune of New Orleans: Former Democratic Congressman William Jefferson was found guilty of 11 of 16 corruption charges today by a federal

We’d already set aside the January 2010 deadline for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay that President Obama set on his first day in office. But now the

A new New York City education policy that mandates comprehensive sex education in all city public schools has caused ire within the Vatican. The Papacy’s

According to Forbes magazine , Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is following the lead of Michigan Gov

Willie Bishop sits in a St. Charles County, Mo., jail awaiting trial on charges of recklessly and knowingly exposing some one to HIV. His act of exposure? The