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Florida governor Charlie Crist, who’s running for Senate as an independent, said Social Security could remain solvent longer if more immigrants were able to

Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post reports that all of that whole-of-government stuff coming from the Obama administration about (among other things)

Bloomberg takes a hard look at the lobbying fight over financial regulatory overhaul and concludes that despite last week’s passage of a financial regulatory

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – This is by far the darkest FOB I’ve ever been on. By 7 p.m., it’s pitch black out here, and to leave a

The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit today against Gov. Rick Perry, questioning the constitutionality of his involvement in The

The question has come up a lot lately, particularly since oral arguments last week in Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against John Yoo made clear that the federal judge

CompuCredit, an Atlanta subprime lender that specializes in high-rate credit cards, payday loans, auto financing and debt collection, is part of the country’s leading coalition on financial literacy.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today (pdf) that four British men who say they were tortured while imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay have no

Thirty Senate Democrats today urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to include a public insurance option in the bill the Democrats bring to the

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), the self-described fire breathing liberal congressman, is going to announce his resignation from Congress tomorrow morning,

President Obama today made official what had been leaked over the weekend: That the viability plans submitted last month by Chrysler and General Motors don’t go

New data show that in just under three decades, the after-tax income for the top one percent of earners rose by 281 percent, compared with 25 percent for the middle quintile and 16 percent for the bottom fifth.

Yesterday we mentioned that Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee and a fierce opponent of public health plans, had left

In a sign of campaign spending spending to come in the post- Citizens United era, Super PACs are already pouring money into Florida for attack ads.

Over at WalletPop, they’ve looked closer into a big recent auction of foreclosed properties in Detroit, and it’s an even bleaker situation than first

The release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate has overshadowed another major story coming out of the administration today. Multiple sources

Nice catch by The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey. During an interview with the Sioux City Journal published Tuesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said

Finding leverage when you’re in the minority always requires some creativity, but Republicans might have trouble convincing people they’re acting in good faith

The unfolding foreclosure fraud crisis isn’t easy to understand, but here it is boiled down. Banks need proper documentation to repossess a home from a family.

At today’s White House press briefing: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was arrested

The Ethics Committee has known about Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-N.Y.) violations since September 2008 and Rep. Maxine Waters’s (D-Calif.) misdeeds since June

As the Florida House and Senate discussed their budget proposals yesterday, Democrats in both houses introduced amendments that would have cut funding for so-called crisis pregnancy centers , which counsel women against abortions, into family planning services provided by country health departments.