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The Personhood Mississippi logo (Pic via Facebook) A group of Mississippi State University students held a protest against the state’s so-called “Personhood” amendment yesterday . The amendment, which will appear on the state’s ballot next month, aims to ban abortion but could have a host of negative consequences .

Obama chats with John Boehner about skin color. Congress may have fewer women next year. Lisa Murkowski tries to keep Tea Party ads off the air. A

The controversial pipeline that would reroute a Georgia-Pacific paper mill’s waste into the larger St. Johns River has long confounded environmentalists in the area.

On Monday, U.S. Department of Labor Sec. Hilda Solis, together with the ambassadors of Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, signed agreements

Fifty percent of Americans say Obama does not deserve re-election. Financial reform could be signed by the end of May, says Barney Frank. Obama’s drilling

The venerable fact-check website PolitiFact rates a recent web ad by the Karl Rove-affiliated 501(c)(4) nonprofit group Crossroads GPS -- on supposed breaks in

Trolling through the House oversight committee’s report this afternoon, it became clear that Jack Abramoff was a bad influence on U.S. policy in the Northern

The success of health care reform could depend on this man. A federal appeals court says FCC lacks the authority to push a broadband plan. Special

Gen. David Petraeus repeatedly made statements that supported Barack Obama’s foreign-policy proposals or cut against John McCain’s during a talk on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal reports a familiar face is back on the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain at a stop in Aspen, Colo.: Ousted John McCain

Militia activists love Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller. Barney Frank says the economy will take off, but too late to help Dems in November. Jon Stewart

The Obama transition formally announced Jack Lew and Jim Steinberg as deputy secretaries of state just now. On Lew, my pal Mark Kleiman, who knows the guy,

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, said Friday morning “the time is right” to enter the GOP presidential race.

At least 40 members of the House have joined Michelle Bachman’s (R-Minn.) Tea Party Caucus. More wealthy candidates are running self-financed -- yet populist

What was bad news for Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, Tim Geithner and now Hilda Solis might be good news for the federal government. Their recent tax woes --

Republican presidential hopefuls attacked the Environmental Protection Agency during a social conservative event in Iowa over the weekend, and said the United States should allow for more production of energy domestically, have fewer regulations and end a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling. Speaking at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition event on Saturday were Atlanta businessman Herman Cain ; U.S. Rep

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On Wednesday, the Department of Justice moved to block the proposed $39 billion takeover of mobile carrier T-Mobile by telecom giant AT&T, arguing the

Republican leaders in the Senate on Monday asked the top actuary at the Health and Human Services Department for a cost analysis of the Democrats’ health-care

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