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ABC is reporting that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel could announce as early as Friday that he’s leaving the administration to run for mayor of

National abortion-rights organization NARAL Pro-Choice America recently deemed Ohio one of this year’s worst states in terms of women’s access to abortion and

WATERTOWN, N.Y. - Rallying support for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens before Tuesday’s special election in NY-23, Vice President Joe Biden today

Now that Newt Gingrich is expected to form a presidential exploratory committee (though he will not be announcing an official presidential bid when he goes

The Los Angeles Times takes a close look at a problem TWI detailed Tuesday in a piece about neglected bank-owned property. Some of that property, as we

The Iowa Democratic Party accused Secretary of State Matt Schultz of using public resources to advocate against a presidential hopeful, according to a complaint to the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board filed by party chairwoman Sue Dvorsky . In the complaint, Dvorsky claimed Schultz, a Republican, sent out a press release on the Secretary of State’s website denigrating former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman , saying he is unqualified to run for President

Phil Berg, who by my lights is the original birther attorney -- he filed a lawsuit challenging then-candidate Barack Obama’s citizenship in August 2008 -- has

Notwithstanding analyses of the remaining ballots in the NY-23 special election, which suggest that Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) will solidify his win, defeated

As noted, Defense Secretary Bob Gates told reporters on Friday that President Obama’s combat-troop withdrawal plan had the support of Gens. David Petraeus and

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With the mortgage crisis dragging on and no quick fix in sight, lots of new ideas to help people stay in their homes are floating around. Maybe one upside to

In the Texas gubernatorial race, a new Rasmussen Reports survey of Texas Republicans finds Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) falling slightly behind Sen. Kay Bailey

For all this talk of strategic reevaluation of the Afghanistan war, The Washington Times puts forward a possibility that few have considered: If you support

The next amendments up for votes on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill? Check out the list below: Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.)

Primary among the proposals in the Republicans’ Pledge to America is the promise to cut spending, slash taxes and shrink the government to restore the United

For the past year, the neoconservative conception of democracy promotion and human rights -- hollow elections; wars waged under the pretext of do-gooderism;

Jim Tedisco, the Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District, has finally conceded defeat to Democrat Scott Murphy. This seems like a good

As a postscript to my Richard Holbrooke piece, a weird exchange came last night at Amb. Holbrooke’s appearance before the Council on Foreign Relations when a

The Federal Reserve is considering some aggressive steps to unlock lending, including buying large amounts of unsecured short-term debt, The New York Times says

After weeks of sunny relations with city officials and police, the Occupy Dallas movement saw its first arrests Monday, when 24 protesters were cuffed and

The former Speaker of the House goes the Karl Rove route and gets a weekly column in a conservative editorial shop, at the Washington Examiner. “I am