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Officials released new figures yesterday detailing just how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill -- about twelve times more than

Of the 13 sixth-grade girls asked to explain why they want to take part in an Alexandria, Virginia-based after-school program called SOHO, Katherine Ivette

Today’s poor jobs report cements the fact that the recovery has stalled out and American workers are facing years, if not a decade, of sluggish wage growth and

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) has apparently pulled out of today’s conference on Islamic lawfare. The Council on American-Islamic Relations is declaring

Cheney drew big applause predicting that Obama would be a one-term president. And when he headed to a radio interview, the Draft Cheney 2012 stickers were snapped up.

The five big unions that represent the majority of Michigan’s 50,000 state workers will join forces to bargain with Gov.

There were no surprises out of Nevada’s primary election Tuesday, as scandal-plagued Gov. Jim Gibbons lost the GOP nomination for a second term and Tea Party

For the last eight years, lawyers at the Dept. of Justice were frequently hired for their politics, rather than professional qualifications. The next administration must jump hurdles to reform key offices.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, told reporters on Friday that a public option will be included in

Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Gov.

The first polling on the potential candidates for Delaware’s 2010 U.S. Senate race showed Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) winning easily. Public Policy Polling had

The Ohio House passed one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion limits today in a 54 to 43 vote. # A direct challenge to Roe v.

Two 14-year old girls committed suicide last week in Marshall, Minn., and the evidence suggests they’d been bullied. Relatives of Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz told Meredith Viera of the TODAY Show that the girls may have been more than just friends

Immigration and Customs Enforcement data received through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that Secure Communities , a federal immigration enforcement program, detains and deports people who are not criminals. In a press release issued last week, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network indicates that: “Nationally, 1 in 4 people deported under S-Comm haven’t been convicted of any crime. That ratio jumps to over 50% in Palm Beach, in Miami, and in multiple examples across the country” xplained Bridget Kessler of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.