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Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v.

The School District of Philadelphia is facing a $629 million budget shortfall and has requested an additional $75 to $110 million in funding from the city, a 20

Today, Wisconsin is holding the greatest recall election in U.S. history.

When you see a great movie, it can stop you in your tracks. It makes your day suddenly brighter. When you see a great movie that also happens to be a huge

The earthquake that hit Virginia and much of the east coast yesterday was felt at Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant, where a federal regulator has warned that the spent fuel storage is vulnerable to damage from quakes.

Half a year into Gov. Terry Branstad ‘s fifth term in Terrace Hill, Democratic skepticism continues to mount over Branstad’s much repeated goal of creating 200,000 new jobs in the state over the next four-and-a-half years, especially as the doors begin to close at Iowa Workforce Development field offices at the end of this month. Today, Branstad and Lt

Former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China Jon Hunstman is the first contender in the 2012 presidential race to respond to a recent challenge from South

At all curious how much money goes into running a whole school, or dozens of schools broken down by type, like charter, middle school and high

At 3:30 ET today, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board is expected to declare Al Franken the winner of his U.S. Senate race against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm

The Detroit News on Friday published a commentary by Jay Ambrose of the Scripps Howard News Service about hydrofracking that contained a couple of easily falsified claims. Addressing the issue of contamination by fracking liquids he writes: For that to happen, as you can learn from several articles, much-diluted chemicals used in tiny amounts would have to rise thousands of feet and pass through solid rock without the benefit of fracking to reach the aquifers above.

<p>Without much notice, something strange has happened to the intelligence community during the second term of President George W. Bush. The leaders of

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Can Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) make two improbable comebacks in one election season? Some internal polls released last week indicated that he was closing the gap

Which 501(c)(4) groups are pushing it when it comes to making election activities their primary mission? Groups wishing to maintain their tax-exempt status

Curtis Hertel Jr., Register of Deeds for Ingham County, says that a discovery he made involving alleged fraudulent mortgage documents is now being investigated by both the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI. “Yes, this is, in my opinion, fraud,” Hertel said.

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles. According to a press release from the campaign posted by The Miami Herald : Each member has been an active voice in state politics and an advocate for conservative causes and issue campaigns. The Romney campaign will utilize this coalition to perform voter outreach and coalition building for Get Out the Vote efforts

President Obama held a press conference on Tuesday to defend the deal he struck with Republicans to extend federal unemployment benefits and the Bush tax cuts for the richest taxpayers, but Democratic lawmakers still expressed their dismay at the deal. Obama declared that the United States was “founded on compromise” and that he would not be held hostage to some “abstract ideal.” That did little to satisfy some Democrats, who criticized Obama for not pushing hard enough to win the votes for a more progressive package. Rep

Maybe it’s something in the water, but Colorado lawmakers are increasingly leading the charge on the wave of bipartisanship that’s sweeping Washington. Whether it will continue – or result in any substantial change in what many deem a badly broken system – remains to be seen. Fresh off of his co-mingling effort at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech by President Obama , Democratic Sen

Two young activists arrested this morning for protesting mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia will have to come up with $100,000 in bail if they want

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, son of legendary Michigan Governor George Romney, came through Michigan on Wednesday on a fundraising trip. But the Michigan Democratic Party questioned why Michigan residents would support Romney after he advocated killing the state’s major industry. In a press release, the MDP said: As Mitt Romney kicked off a fundraising and campaign swing through the Detroit area today, he’ll have to answer to Michigan voters for his advocacy of auto industry bankruptcy in 2008.