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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 objections to cap-and-trade legislation have been almost entirely economic: an emissions reduction program, the argument goes, would raise energy costs and

Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel Martinez

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

Though big labor was dealt a blow last week by news that the Employee Free Choice Act will likely not make it to the floor, they’ve quietly scored a big win.

The Indiana Republican’s office sends it over. It’s brief, with a preamble that quotes the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and a soaring

Pundits react to Obama’s escalation: it’s the right move; it’s the wrong move; it’s confusing. Democratic lawmakers have similarly mixed

From today’s White House press briefing: Q Are you still confident that this could be a legitimate election tomorrow? MR. GIBBS: We look forward to

Last week, it was clear that Democrats considered the NY-23 race closer than the polls suggested, and that Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman had truly

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

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has been called out for flip-flopping on the House-backed/Senate-opposed proposal to strip all federal funding from Planned

Robert Gates vs. John McCain! Decency vs. bigotry! National security vs. ... well, bigotry! The Senate Armed Services Committee was probably always going to

Casey Seller has the audio, which is also posted here by Shaun Dakin. Here’s a transcript: Hi, this is Dede Scozzafava calling on behalf of Bill Owens. And I

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

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.

The Obama administration just won a round in the lawsuit brought by five alleged torture victims against Jeppesen Dataplan, the Boeing subsidiary that allegedly

The Michigan unemployment report for August is out and the results, while predictable, are more bad news for a state economy that hasn’t seen consistent job growth in years. Michigan’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased in August by three-tenths of a percentage point to 11.2 percent, according to data released today by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB).