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The Atlanta Federal Home Loan Bank loaned $51.5 billion to Countrywide -- a mortgage lender at the heart of the subprime crisis -- in 2007. Washington Mutual,

So golf balls and old tires didn’t work. Now the best technology that BP’s engineers and Nobel Prize-winning Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s team of experts can

This is part of the voicemail that callers get when they’re unable to reach someone at GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown’s campaign headquarters in

A senior Senate source emails with this preview of what to expect in the chamber’s energy bill, which is expected to take shape in the coming weeks. The

So Ari Shapiro’s NPR story yesterday placed then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales -- a.k.a. God’s gift to Talking Points Memo -- at the center of the

Add Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to the list of Republican senators who have said they would support a review of birthright

Weekly initial jobless claims fell to 460,000, down 14,000 from the prior week, the Labor Department announced this morning. Economists had expected

Breaking from The Associated Press: President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team,

Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, defended his organization’s “legislative manual” in an interview with National Public Radio on Wednesday. The manual asserted that gays and lesbians are more likely to practice sex with animals and children and that they enjoy eating human excrement .

The new Quinnipiac Poll has Marco Rubio, the conservative Republican who’s ridden a wave of good press in his Senate campaign against Gov. Charlie Crist

When the stimulus was the talk of the town, some women piped up to note that the stimulus funds were seemingly targeted at male unemployment, only to be told

A test case for climate change litigation was dismissed by a federal appeals court on Friday in a little-noticed afternoon ruling, leaving the door open for a

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep.

One aspect of the housing market that seems to be holding true is that no one is left untouched by its decline, and that includes the rich and powerful. First

Residents of Southwest Ranches and Pembroke Pines, as well as immigrant advocates, will gather Thursday to once again voice their opposition to the construction of a privately run immigration detention center in Broward County.

The office of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) sends over the news that he’ll be the ranking member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee.

The health and human services budget bill has passed and both chambers have agreed to a temporary spending authority bill. The closing remarks have been made. The gavel has fallen.

Yesterday’s Republican attempt to — well, technically to resolve to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), but more realistically to keep the CIA

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation unveiled today a proposal to put labels on all new vehicles that compare vehicles’

Newsweek has intelligently re-posted the transcript of an interview Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar -- the captured Taliban leader -- granted the magazine late last

Rahm Emanuel could face a serious challenge from Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of the most vocal supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress,