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So say White House and BP officials, who warned today that it might be July before they’re able to plug the leak that’s spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee asks Secretary Gates about the speed of our force drawdown in Iraq and our force

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,

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. President Obama will deliver his major health care speech to Congress at 8 p.m. tonight -- and the

According to Eason Jordan at subscription-only IraqSlogger, the Maliki government is charging shoe-throwing journalist Muntader al-Zaidi with insulting the

GOP presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen

Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this morning that he’d met with Vice President Joe Biden, who was in Phoenix fundraising for Democratic

Rep. Thad McCotter signed a pledge this week saying if he is elected he will appoint cabinet members and judges who share his belief that abortion should be illegal in the United States.

On a conference call last month, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) hedged a little bit on the question of whether Republicans, if they won a congressional majority in

Immigrants’ advocates and the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters are so angry that CNN plans to run a four-hour special called Latinos in America next

Chairman of a House Financial Services subcommittee is pushing a loophole-riddled bill that would allow payday lenders, who are his top campaign contributors, to charge annual interest rates of nearly 400 percent.

Then here, read this: It is unclear from unclassified reports whether the information gained was critical in foiling actual plots. Mohammed later told outside

HuffPo’s Ryan Grim reports that House Republicans have introduced a motion to penalize strategic defaulters -- underwater homeowners who simply stop paying

I’m in the air right now, on my way to Sen. John McCain’s first stop of the day in Tampa, Fla. Next comes Blountville, TN. Then we’re off to Moon Township, PA.

A slew of big-name conservatives will appear at the first ever regional Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando on Sept. 23. Confirmed speakers include Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, Marco Rubio, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul .

The House Natural Resources Committee dealt President Obama’s oil spill commission a high-profile rebuke today when it unanimously passed a Republican amendment

President Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the first leg of of his outreach to what-we-maybe-shouldn’t-call-the Muslim world and, unsurprisingly, Osama bin

Fresh off a resounding loss on a ballot measure that would have severely restricted the collective bargaining rights of Ohio’s public employees, conservatives

The University of Florida campus (Pic by Random McRandomhead, via Flickr) The Environmental Protection Agency has designated the University of Florida’s Water Institute as a “Center of Excellence for Watershed Management,” the second such institution in the state. The designation comes with benefits, including EPA letters of support for additional grant opportunities, involvement in local and regional watershed issues, and EPA technical support.

As Speaker of the House John Boehner prepares for a weekend fundraiser for Rep. Scott Tipton in Aspen, Tipton’s Democratic challenger, Sal Pace , went on the offensive Tuesday, saying he’s had it with a Republican Congress that publicly rails against any and all taxes while quietly working to end a small tax break enjoyed by workers for the past year.

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,