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While the Tea Party-backing Americans for Prosperity and the group’s secretive billionaire founder, David Koch, have regularly made headlines this election

Finally, a bit of good economic news. The Department of Labor reports that new unemployment claims took a significant drop last week, from 428,000 to 391,000, dropping below the magic number of 400,000. The four-week average is still at 417,000.

Today was supposed to be a critical day for the Obama administration’s efforts to kill the troubled F-22 fighter jet. It goes like this: the Senate is taking up

Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), the last major Republican office-holder in the very blue home of Vice President Joe Biden, is set to announce whether or not he’ll

While one group of leading conservatives is pressing Republican senators to filibuster Obama’s nominee for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals,

A piece in the Pakistan paper the News accused the U.S. military of taking the inexplicable step of abandoning checkposts on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Up until Thursday night it had been a crowded week for the Democratic National Convention. There were too many delegates and reporters jammed into the Pepsi

Credit unions, once considered mom-and-pop operations, made the same risky mistakes as big banks.

If Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s call for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures sounds familiar, that’s because his former Democratic rival,

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain announces his new economic plan today, just after his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee,

The New York Times has a good article about how 501(c)4 organizations are increasingly being utilized to influence elections by donors who appreciate that they

What was reported a few months ago is now official: Gen. Raymond Odierno, the U.S. commander in Iraq, will head up the Joint Forces Command, pending (a certain)

I took most of today off as part of a long weekend, so I have paid less attention than I might otherwise have to the conservative outrage over the Nobel

Don’t say they’re not on message. A group of Republicans this afternoon will meet with reporters to protest the Democrats’ plans to eliminate tens of

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in a speech today, announced two new offshore drilling safety rules. Under these new rules, operators will need to comply

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was none too happy when House leaders stripped his single-payer provision from their $894 billion health reform proposal. Today,

Under a new decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals made on Thursday, immigrants arrested without a warrant will not be read their rights until they are

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) -- the notorious budget hawk who almost became President Obama’s Commerce Secretary -- has accepted a spot on the powerful Banking

So it seems that Robert Gibbs today inelegantly tried to distinguish between al-Qaeda and the Taliban -- sigh, that shouldn’t have been too difficult -- and in

I was all set to present this as my newsbreak today, so it’s a good thing I swung by the subscription-only newsletter Inside The Pentagon before I embarrassed