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The Republican Party of New Mexico’s suit filing in federal court last Friday to challenge to the state’s Limits Law, a campaign finance law passed in 2009, is poised for a fight. Some who previously supported the law are now joining to dismantle it.

Conservative groups may still be dominating the outside spending game overall, but it turns out that in the last couple weeks, liberal ones have been competing

Citigroup is selling new mortgage-backed securities for the first time in two years. The company expects the mortgages to be rated AAA. But, BusinessWeek

The Cook Political Report, calling it one of the toughest we’ve had in a long time, joins the Rothenberg Political report in calling the Coakley-Brown race a

Republican Senate candidate Greg Sowards told Politico Tuesday that no candidate in the Republican primary would be further to the right than he is. Sowards also said he didn’t believe that Rep.

Gov. Terry Branstad indicated he wants to be a “good host” during the 2012 GOP presidential contest and, therefore, is unlikely to endorse a candidate in the lead-up to the first-in-the-nation caucuses. “I have not ruled out the possibility, but I think it’s probably still unlikely that I’m going to endorse,” Branstad told Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics .

If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their unemployment benefits and Medicare doctors will take a 21 percent rate cut.

Reid Wilson breaks the news: Allison Meyers, director of the RNC’s Young Eagles program, was terminated yesterday after reports that the RNC reimbursed a

CNN is reporting that a Western source close to the Afghan leadership is saying talks for next week’s runoff election between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah

GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman (Pic by calon, via Flickr) Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will meet former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich at a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate next Monday, focusing on foreign policy and national security. Gingrich recently made a slew of appearances in Florida, appearing at a town hall meeting at Jacksonville Landing

Outgoing Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman says that counter-proliferation is becoming a bipartisan consensus, with a special urgency on

More than a year ago, Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill..) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility to

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary on Tuesday released a report on the immigrant detention system and announced plans to improve detention conditions

Michael Mukasey, the highest legal official in the land: "the Vice President is obviously one of the close advisers to the president and is within the

Within hours of each other on Tuesday, four anti-abortion news websites posted information on a recently-released Australian report claiming that medical abortions are “ less safe than surgery .” Previous research conducted in the U.S. contradicts the survey’s findings

In addition to the major primary runoff in Arkansas’s Senate race and the 10 states holding primaries today, a new member of Congress will be elected tonight in

UPDATE, 11:22 a.m. EST As the federal government nears a shutdown, scheduled to begin in just over 13 hours, latest reports on negotiations between the House