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Three-quarters of Americans support the troop withdrawal from Iraqi cities; Cheney’s in the other quarter. Just because Madoff’s in jail doesn’t mean the

Four Democratic senators demanded late last month that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency must go. Their call for EPA Administrator Stephen

As first reported by Steve Aftergood on Monday, the United States’ routine declaration of its nuclear weapons facilities to the United Nation’s atomic watchdog

Livonia Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter will formally file paperwork to run for the GOP nomination for President Friday. Advisers to the guitar-slinging legislator tell Politico he will add his hat to the party race Friday, making him the third sitting member of the U.S. House competing for the nomination

President Obama will return to Minnesota at the end of August to address the national meeting of the American Legion. Obama was in Minnesota on Monday as a part of his jobs tour. Also speaking at the American Legion meeting will be Michele Bachmann, considered in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates vying to defeat Obama

The latest news on the Guantanamo front is that despite the president’s big promise in January to close Guantanamo Bay within a year, it turns out that just

Unmentioned in President Obama’s speech to Congress last night was the impending battle over card check, which promises to be anything but post-partisan. As

AMES — Former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack , promising a church-potluck civility, announced her campaign this morning for Congress as a Democrat in the state’s new 4th District, a sweep of 39 counties in western and central Iowa. Most of the counties are now represented by U.S. Rep.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made note of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s upcoming September appearance at the Freedom Jamboree, a tea party presidential nominating conference that will also feature Bradlee Dean of the religious group You Can Run But You Cannot Hide. Dean repeatedly has called for the incarceration of gays and lesbians, while Bachmann has frequently helped the group with fundraising.

Capitol Hill is a long way from Indian country, but this week tribal leaders and health care advocates took a big stride toward receiving the boost in

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - The Justice Department filed a suit against the state of Arizona on Tuesday for its controversial

At a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday, a member of the audience grilled Tim Pawlenty on his views about rights for LGBT people.

With the GOP lawmakers and Attorney General raising concerns about the costs of the Michigan Civil Service Commission decision in January to grant health benefits to non-related adults and their dependents living with state employees, the experience of Michigan State University might actually be quite informative. MSU has approximately 11,100 employees, according to MSU officials.

Tomorrow is Georgia’s Republican primary runoff for governor. The race is between former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel and former Rep. Nathan Deal

The Environmental Protection Agency is holding seven public hearings in August and September on its proposal to regulate the disposal of coal ash, a byproduct

Massey Energy must feel pretty ashamed right now. A coal mine it owns exploded yesterday, killing at least 25 people. One of the coal industry’s staunchest

When Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Banking Committee, announced recently that he wouldn’t seek reelection this year, the move was strangely

A new music video called “My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)” by David Holmes and journalism students at New York University’s Studio 20 is making the rounds after being posted on the Pulitzer Prize-winning website ProPublica this morning .

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is set to tell her side of the SB 1070 drama in a provocatively titled memoir due out in November. “Scorpions For Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border” is scheduled to be published in November by Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.