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Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) announced today his support for including a renewable energy standard in the energy bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

Politics turns on speed and preemption, so it’s not surprising that some people are already rushing to handicap the political landscape for an Obama

“In today’s world, without question, we’ve learned two lessons,” FHA Commissioner David Stevens told reporters this winter. “One: homeownership is important to the sustainability of communities. And two: not everybody should own a home.”

The firm faces a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a 2007 shooting incident in Baghdad.

MARION — When told by an audience member that he should tell Iowans urging other competitors to hop into the 2012 GOP presidential contest to read his book and take another look at his record, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty brushed it off. Tim Pawlenty meets with Iowans at the Marion Public Library before beginning his opening remarks

The Iraqi government shows signs of increasing impatience with Blackwater guards getting hired by other private security firms: A top Iraqi official said

Joe Miller ad says Murkowski is not a witch, but might be Voldemort. Liberal? It might be genetics. Obama says he might evolve his same-sex marriage

Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an unholy alliance between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting

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The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board voted Tuesday to maintain its current policies regarding disclosure for ballot campaigns. The board’s rulings have come under heightened scrutiny in recent months as the board works to adjust its policies to new laws passed in 2010. The board has been receiving feedback from both anti-gay marriage amendment supporters that want as little disclosure as possible and open government groups that favor full disclosure

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Pumping that golden elixir — corn-ethanol — into the gas tank can do a world of good, or so goes the argument. It relieves the U.S. from dependency on foreign oil, some reports say, and it reduces the pollution spewed out the tailpipe

In my piece a few weeks ago about the rudderlessness of GOP foreign policy, I mentioned a National Journal item reporting that several of the neoconservative

One thing that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wants in hand when he calls Philip Zelikow to testify next Wednesday: the memo Zelikow wrote in 2005 as an aide

If this Guardian piece is even 50 percent correct, al-Qaeda faces a recruiting crisis, ideological bankruptcy and capabilities deficit so severe that its entire

It’s hard to divine the Justice Department’s intentions on almost anything these days, given that Attorney General Eric Holder has barely been in office two

Despite being behind every packet of Domino sugar in every diner in the country, the name “Fanjul” is little-known outside of Florida. Alfy and Pepe Fanjul

A new peer-reviewed study published by the National Academy of Sciences shows a link between hydrofracking wells to obtain natural gas and contamination of drinking water supplies — particularly with methane, which can even make drinking water flammable. ProPublica reports : For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire… The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University

Christine O’Donnell lost her U.S. Senate race in Delaware by seventeen points -- but she had $924,800 still left over in her campaign account after the election