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Congressman Jared Polis today called for the inclusion of comprehensive immigration reform in any negotiated package presented to Congress to raise the debt limit and cut the deficit. In a letter to President Obama and Speaker Boehner, Polis outlined how he thinks immigration reform could increase federal revenues by billions of dollars, helping to close the budget deficit

In what looks like an effort to rush through proposed rules to overhaul the Endangered Species Act, the Interior Dept. has said it plans on reviewing 200,000

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

He reframes his argument that the Democrats need a new speaker in a Human Events column: Speaker Pelosi has damaged America’s safety. She’s made America

It’s been a good week for Chrysler. The United Auto Workers ratified the new collective bargaining agreement with nearly 55 percent of the vote and the company also announced a third quarter profit of more than $200 million

The Senate today, as expected, unanimously confirmed David Kris as assistant attorney general in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice.

In case you missed it, TWI’s David Weigel spoke with NPR’s Liane Hansen yesterday about Democratic retirements, Michael Steele and the 2010 elections on

Yesterday, I wrote about the 17 Chinese Uighurs’ petition to the Supreme Court challenging the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruling

No, not that one. Another one -- Damon Dunn, a mainstream Republican candidate for Secretary of State in California. Dunn stands in the way of Taitz’s vanity

A study by the British government has concluded that hydrofracking for natural gas can, in fact, cause earthquakes and appears to have done so in in that country. The Blackpool Gazette reports : The meetings followed the British Geological Survey’s (BGS) conclusion two recent earth tremors felt nearby were most likely to have been caused by fracking.

Apparently, you can’t believe everything you read in the newspaper. The Washington Post article I linked earlier, which formerly said that President-elect

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty made it official Sunday morning during a conference call with his team; the campaign will end following a poor showing at the 2011 Ames Straw Poll. Pawlenty thanked staff members for their work but said that the campaign, which had pinned much of its hopes to Iowa, needed to receive a boost from the straw poll

Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in the special election in New York’s 20th Congressional District, has seized onto the AIG bonus outrage and is upping the

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,

The Michigan State Police have concluded their investigation of threats allegedly made by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon against Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood and an Ingham County Prosecutor and concluded that they were harmless. Shanon Banner, spokesperson for the Michigan State Police issued the following statement on the case late Tuesday: The MSP Major Case Unit has thoroughly investigated this matter and determined it not to be a viable threat.

Alice Rivlin, a member of Obama’s deficit commission (technically, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform), tells Damian Paletta at The

Not necessarily from the Taliban, but from a military coup responding to the threat the Taliban poses to the viability of Pakistan. Fox News reports that Gen.

A pair of new polls reveal the McCain campaign has some major problems emerging in the typically red state of Virginia. The first poll, from Suffolk University,

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty stopped by The Daily Show Wednesday night to chat with Jon Stewart, continuing his media tour. Pawlenty has appeared on a

Reports Major Garrett: A senior administration official deeply involved in White House deliberations about the future location and judicial venue of Khalid