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President Obama called for speedy passage of a scaled-back energy and oil spill response bill during remarks at the White House today, while also renewing his

Speaking in Jackson Hole, Wyo., this morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke mentioned a number of further steps the central bank could take to

Jerome Block, Jr., absent since July 28 after records surfaced that he misused a state-issued gas card, returned to Santa Fe Tuesday and said he had a prescription drug addiction but would not resign from his post on the Public Regulation Commission.

The Charleston Gazette runs a story today providing further suggestion that a failed 2008 mining safety bill might have helped prevent last week’s deadly mining

...Sort of. While the entire Mideast-centric wing of the foreign-policy community waits to see if the Obama administration will actually offer its own plan

TWI has obtained a copy of a discussion draft authored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), with input from Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine) office, that was

Sarah Palin isn’t a fan of the Politico crew... ...and Michael Steele and Rudy Guiliani defend her after a Politico piece. A N.Y. candidate accuses

Washington experienced an influx of Tea Partiers this past weekend. Not only did Glenn Beck host his Restoring Honor rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on

A coalition of over 80 HIV/AIDS service organization have sent a letter to Congress seeking increased funding for HIV prevention and care programming in the country. The letter, delivered to top Obama White House officials as well as members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees, calls for millions of dollars in increased spending to combat the epidemic in the U.S. The letter highlights eight areas of federal funding streams, and identifies what the groups say the financial needs in each area are

GUANTANAMO BAY -- After two straight days of absence and a very strange half-day appearance on Thursday, the Office of Military Commissions just confirmed that

If the Senate brings forward a stripped-down bill including a liability compromise, and opens the process to amendments, a minority staffer says it will pass with major Republican support.

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Would-be Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney edged his opponent Rick Santorum by a hair during the Iowa caucuses — defeating him by only eight votes. The Republican Party has deemed it the closest-ever margin of victory in a Republican presidential contest. From CNN : Ron Paul finished a close third, according to the state GOP

The Obama administration released today its latest estimate of the economic cost of its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. And the numbers

On a McCain campaign conference call with reporters today, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani used a leading question about Sen. Barack Obama’s work with

On Sean Hannity’s program Monday night, pollster Frank Luntz hosted a focus group of Iowa Republican caucus-goers, gauging their reaction of President Barack Obama’s Sunday afternoon interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. After a question by O’Reilly about the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in transitioning a government for Egypt, Luntz began to ask the Iowa Republicans why the meters showed them all having such a negative reaction to Obama’s answers . One woman said she believed the president’s religious convictions guide his policies.

<p>With all eyes on Saturday&rsquo;s caucuses in Nevada, the LA Times <a

Papers have reportedly been filed for a new corporation to cash in on her fame with myriad money-making projects. One is Black Ice, a consulting firm specializing in personal vendettas.

World leaders in Copenhagen have reached a climate deal, albeit one that leaves many questions unresolved, The New York Times reports. The breakthrough

Paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific is pushing back against claims made by protectors of the Ouachita River along the Arkansas-Louisiana state line that have

On the heels of a decisive victory in South Carolina, Sen. Barack Obama heads into Super-duper Tuesday as a surprisingly strong challenger to the

The right-leaning blogosphere is having some fun today with White House science adviser John Holdren. He said last week that the term global warming