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This ad, sponsored by Gov. Joe Manchin (D) in his suddenly tight Senate race in West Virginia, should most likely put to rest questions raised by his opponent,

A West Branch girl conceived through in vitro fertilization two years following her father’s death is not eligible to receive his Social Security benefits, according to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2000, as Bruce and Patti Beeler prepared for their wedding following year, the couple learned that Bruce was ill with acute leukemia

Source: Flickr, David_Shankbone About 800 young labor organizers at the AFL-CIO’s Next Up Youth Worker Summit in Minneapolis announced their support for New York Wall Street protesters Sunday. The youth summit attendees compared the protests to the pro-democracy Arab Spring demonstrations in the Middle East and recent protests against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Our piece this morning describes the reluctance of Massey Energy workers to criticize the company for fear of losing their jobs in a part of the country where

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law had its first day in court Thursday, when a judge heard a

Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) just introduced an amendment to the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill to include a cash-for-clunkers program -- and after

A few days ago Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) announced their opposition to Ambassador Chris Hill, President Obama’s choice to become

Investigators haven’t yet stepped into the Upper Big Branch Mine in Southern West Virginia -- the site of this month’s explosion that killed 29 miners -- but

The stock market continued its cliff diving today, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard and Poor’s 500 Index closing at their lowest levels

As Daphne blogged earlier today, Dawn Johnsen of Indiana University Law School is going to helm the Justice Dept.’s Office of Legal Counsel, a crucial position

The Tea Party movement seems to have quieted down as Republicans found a more grippable political issue with Guantanamo Bay. Nonetheless, motivational speaker

Companies see Massey getting away with things, so they start doing those things themselves, said environmental activist Maria Gunnoe.

Sarah Palin may think an Iran sanctions package is off the Obama administration’s agenda, but -- quelle surprise -- it appears that the opposite is occurring.

The nomination of Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for solicitor general -- the government’s top legal representative in cases before the Supreme Court --

An updated forecast by the USDA’s Economic Research Service shows that net farm income for 2011 will reach $103.6 billion, up $24.5 billion from 2010. All three measures of farm sector earnings (net farm income, net cash income, and net value added) are forecast to rise more than 20 percent in 2011. Net farm income, according to ERS, reflects income from production in the current year, whether or not sold within the calendar year, and is a measure of the increase in wealth from production.

This is the danger of relying too much on preliminary documents in a town where nothing’s final ’til it’s final. As the official summary of the compromise

Pic by Smithers7, via Wikimedia Commons A report released earlier this month by the NAACP found that Florida is among the states with the “most restrictive” felon disenfranchisement “laws in the country” — one of many aspects of the state’s voting practices that will limit voter participation among minorities, according to the group.

The long-in-the-planning beta launch of the new RNC website is being greeted with some predictable snark from liberal blogs -- a lot of it directed at Chairman

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday to force the Obama administration to make a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1

Via Matt Yglesias, the latest Gallup poll shows that Americans overwhelmingly support more deficit-increasing stimulus to create new jobs and jump-start the

As the very, very small chance of a late upset vanishes in NY-23, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is lashing out and accusing ACORN, the unions and

The Interior Department responded swiftly this morning to a report by its inspector general that said last-minute editing by the White House of a report on the