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Art’s post today highlights the concern in the scientific community that President-elect Barack Obama could appoint an EPA head who would politicize science as

People living on the dioxin contaminated area should not worry about absorbing the cancer-causing chemical from their surroundings, a Dow Chemical-funded report said last week. Since 2003 the University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study has received funding from Dow to study dioxin exposure among people who live in areas contaminated by the company’s Midland plant.

From the White House, readouts of President Obama’s communications with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari about the

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee reached out to Iowa supporters of his political action committee Thursday in a fundraising pitch that focused on abortion. “Today Huck PAC is hosting an online fundraiser in support of pro-life candidates,” read the email message.

Public Policy Polling breaks down its latest surveys on the birther conspiracies and the 2012 GOP presidential field and finds that former Alaska Gov. Sarah

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke drew some headlines Tuesday when he said in a speech that it’s time to overhaul the nation’s financial regulatory system,

Good for Gen. Ray Odierno: Gen. Ray Odierno, the top commander in Iraq, recently issued a directive asking his subordinate commanders to reduce the use of

This morning, Democratic leaders will join White House officials to release a report outlining the economic case for enacting health care reform ASAP. In

I really, really love Foreign Policy’s Shadow Government blog. For my money, it’s the most rigorous and interesting conservative group blog about international

While reporters hooted at the comically simplistic charts and lack of details in the House Republican leadership’s budget plan, the green eyeshade types at

Immigrant-rights groups are up in arms after a retired U.S. Navy chief Geoff Ross filed a complaint with Immigration and Customs Enforcement alleging that GOP state Sens. Anitere Flores and J.D. Alexander “engaged in dialogue” with “suspected illegal aliens” — actually, immigrant activists — and did not report them to authorities.

Sen. Barack Obama’s appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, -- TWI coverage and video here -- revives the roiling debate among Democratic strategists, Obama aides

During the two-week debate over health care reform in the Senate Finance Committee, it was a Republican -- Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.) -- who pushed back most vocally

We wrote a piece a few weeks back charging congressional Democrats with a kind-of silence in the face of the Obama administration’s policy to retain

BOSTON -- The mysterious Election Journal blog, which first released the infamous 2008 video of two bumbling New Black Panther Party members waving nightsticks

Changing how campaigns are financed could change the system, advocates say.

To the surprise of no one, the House failed today to override Bush’s veto of SCHIP, the popular children’s health care program. Foreseeing this