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There’s not much to report in the NY-23 absentee ballot count, where Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman continues to gain votes at a much, much slower

Doug Hoffman, the insurgent Conservative Party candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District posts this picture of his Canastota, N.Y. office on

Let’s say you are in the market for a new car, and you head down to view the stock at your local auto dealer. You pick out your car and decide to go ahead with

As the NATO foreign ministerial summit in Brussels opens with a pledge of 7,000 new allied troops for Afghanistan, hawkish secretary-general Anders Fogh

Halliburton is the only company that has refused to voluntarily provide the Environmental Protection Agency with key information about its hydraulic fracturing,

When the federal government pays contractors to take over work done by public employees it ends up paying more than twice as much, according to a new study by the Project on Government Oversight.

North Carolina could be the next state to add a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as the Legislature plans to begin debating the issue on Sept.

A three judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling and granted standing to a coalition of human rights groups suing the government over the 2008 FISA amendments. You can read the full ruling here

Just as soon as I finish blogging about how probable-new-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Janine Davidson is all about smoother civilian-military

Here are some of the shutdown-related news items that made headlines this weekend: • A total of 138 of the state’s legislators have continued to receive pay during the state government shutdown, the Star Tribune reported. Before the shutdown began, DFL Gov. Mark Dayton said he wouldn’t accept pay in the event of a shutdown.

With the UAW’s contracts with the Big Three automakers already expired and operating under an extension, it appears that General Motors will be the first to strike a new deal that gives back some of the concessions workers made to help the company survive bankruptcy in 2009. General Motors Co

Greg Sargent catches a May 2006 interview with then-State Senator Parker Griffith in which he refers to himself as a life-long Democrat and a supporter of

Tell me if this makes sense to you. During the Aug. 20 Afghan presidential election, thousands of polling stations either didn’t open to the public or didn’t

Recently, several anti-abortion rights groups have rallied against recent ordinances in Baltimore and New York that require so-called crisis pregnancy

This afternoon, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients gave one final report on the United States’

I’m late on this, but Politico has a piece today about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) 2010 legislative/political strategy, and it involves taking a forceful

Gov. Rick Perry declined to come out against New York’s recent passage of marriage equality over the weekend, claiming it’s a policy states have the right

Both Reps. Michele Bachmann and Keith Ellison weighed in on the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi on Thursday, expressing relief that the Libyan people no longer have to live under a violent dictator. Gaddafi was killed by rebels on Wednesday after the found him in a sewage tunnel.

I’m pleased to announce that Megan Carpentier is joining the TWI team today -- and for the weeks to come -- as a guest blogger, covering the economy beat. Megan

China this weekend directly challenged the United States for questioning its green technology trade rules. Following the Obama administration’s announcement

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has come out squarely against Republicans’ ideas about looking into changes to birthright citizenship for children