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Mustafa Barghouti, a leading voice for a non-violent solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, says the United States can still foster change in the region.

Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope tells Michigan Messenger he has been investigating the allegations that a Lansing medical marijuana clinic, Your Healthy Choice Clinic, is offering inducements for votes — something that would violate state law. Swope says it is not completely clear what the dispensary is offering a free 1/2 gram of pot or a free medible (edible product made with marijuana) for

Economists say the White House has been way too meek in tackling the racial disparities in the country’s unemployment rates.

The Department of Justice announced Monday that it would release one Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo Bay -- a 38-year-old doctor picked up in Afghanistan and

WorldNetDaily has been crowing about (and soliciting donations for) Where’s the Birth Certificate? anti-Obama billboards for months, but I hadn’t actually

The following is Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) response to today’s California Supreme Court decision upholding the state’s recently renewed ban on same-sex

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr ) According to new information, a provision in the Affordable Care Act has helped 2.5 million young adults gain health insurance since the law took effect. It was previously estimated that about 1 million young adults under the age of 26 were affected by President Obama’s health care reform law, but new reports suggest it was more than twice that number.

Things are looking good for Eric Holder, Obama’s pick for attorney general, formally announced today. In addition to the highly flattering portrait of

The newest issue of the Catholic pro-choice magazine Conscience raises several questions about the current administration’s stance on abortion-rights issues. # The recently published issue, which is a project of Catholics for Choice, is meant as a “comprehensive analysis of President Barack Obama’s prochoice record,” and the current “administration’s abysmal failure to take action on choice issues.” # Jodi Jacobsen’s article, “Is Obama Prochoice?,” highlights the differences between candidate Obama and President Obama, which the author says is akin to a “volte-face”: # As a candidate, Obama said all the right things.

A piece of bad economic news: Industrial production dropped unexpectedly in September: Output at factories, mines and utilities fell 0.2 percent, the first

In a surprising turn of events, of the four major-party candidates, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is perhaps most accessible to the media. According to The Page,

I should have seen this yesterday, but Foreign Policy conducted an interview with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the Paris-based external spokesman for Mir Hussein

When Osama bin Laden is so desperate for international support that he’ll start making an environmentalist case against the United States, something is going

The Fukushima disaster has raised new questions about the safety of U.S. nuclear plants and the Office of Management and Budget should look into whether there should be changes to the system of taxpayer-backed loans for nuclear power, U.S.

In the wake of Saturday’s Senate vote to take up the chamber’s health reform legislation, the focus of the debate has shifted back to the public option, over

Here’s the bill text of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy and oil spill response bill. The Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Company Accountability

BP has responded to allegations by four Senate Democrats that the company worked behind the scenes to help coordinate the release of Lockerbie bomber

How bad is the Afghan insurgency? What will it take to roll it back? During his confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Eikenberry

Pam Hess, the Associated Press’ intelligence correspondent, reports that Tom Fingar, the intelligence community’s chief analyst, is on his way out of

The Iowa Independent has a big scoop: The suspect in the fatal shooting of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Kansas was an occasional contributor to a

“The justice of man is rot,” which is why the Tea Party has swerved clear of traditional left-wing Hollywood and made its own contribution to the pop-culture U.S. history canon.