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It would seem to be the exact kind of thing the Occupy movement is protesting. High-paid political elites commissioned by the financial sector to battle against the interests of the public. The New York Stock Exchange, targeted in the digital-social-media universe as a main stage for the bad-acting finance sector, is holding a “Social Media Day” on Friday to which it is inviting a high-profile roster of special speakers , according to Politico.

The confirmation hearings for Eric Holder to attorney general certainly weren’t as acrimonious as many predicted they’d be. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), who

Some Republican senators, along with centrist Democrats, aren’t happy with Harry Reid’s decision to slip the DREAM Act into a defense authorization bill up for

Members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement filed a conflict of interest complaint Tuesday against Environmental Protection Commission member Brent Rastetter, an appointee by Gov. Terry Branstad.

This report is part of collaboration with WNYC’s “It’s a Free Country” to cover the 25 most captivating congressional races from around the country. On

A derogatory, anti-gay comment posted this week on a blog in the run-up to a vote on repealing don’t ask don’t tell appears to have originated in Sen. Saxby

Yet another outside political group with practically zero paper trail (as of yet) is spending heavily against the Democrat in an obscure and heretofore

In the wake of his conviction in U.S. District Court Thursday, Colorado Ethics Watch is calling on Adams County Sheriff Doug Darr to resign.

The real mystery is why it took so long for someone to buy the audiobook of Bill O’Reilly’s novel Those Who Trespass and turn the most sexually explicit clips

KDKA of Pittsburgh reports that according to local police, the McCain worker who claimed to have been attacked for her political convictions just confessed to

Records from the final months of Bill Richardson’s administration will be unsealed following an opinion from Attorney General Gary King’s office. According to the opinion from King’s office, Richardson’s public records should be subject to requests from the Inspection of Public Records Act.

The House oversight committee has spent the day unloading on Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld -- his $480 million in compensation over the past eight years, his

It’s not just the government that’s considering bailing out the auto industry. Several utilities executives are considering ordering thousands of plug-in

In an exclusive interview with Jake Tapper of ABC News, Lakhdar Boumediene said he was tortured while wrongly imprisoned for seven and a half years at

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wants to know more about the watchlisting standards that Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says that two recent Second Amendment cases are now settled law and that she will follow them if she is confirmed as a

There’s a big coordinated attack underway in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, far from the tribal areas where the Pakistani military is about to launch

Kevin DeAnna writes about the new Temple University course on Mayor Lou Barletta’s tenure in Hazelton -- a class called, evocatively, War in Hazelton. Week

An ultrasound machine (Pic by redjar, via Flickr) The anti-abortion groups Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project (LOLP) and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) have filed a motion to intervene in the injunction of a North Carolina law that would have forced abortion providers to show women an ultrasound and describe it to them before providing an abortion. Last month, U.S