Breaking News

As the government increases border security efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border, more immigrants are attempting to enter the U.S. by sea, the AP reported

With twelve months before a vote on a ballot measure that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution, activists on both sides of the issue are gearing up for tense campaigns. Anti-amendment forces have held a series of public fundraisers and meetings, while pro-amendment activists are engaged in low-key trainings and voter education efforts.

Media Matters weighs in on the topic we wrote about Tuesday on TWI -- the fact that blaming low-income and minority borrowers for the housing crisis is picking

Jerome Block, Jr., absent since July 28 after records surfaced that he misused a state-issued gas card, returned to Santa Fe Tuesday and said he had a prescription drug addiction but would not resign from his post on the Public Regulation Commission.

The Charleston Gazette runs a story today providing further suggestion that a failed 2008 mining safety bill might have helped prevent last week’s deadly mining

...Sort of. While the entire Mideast-centric wing of the foreign-policy community waits to see if the Obama administration will actually offer its own plan

TWI has obtained a copy of a discussion draft authored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), with input from Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine) office, that was

Sarah Palin isn’t a fan of the Politico crew... ...and Michael Steele and Rudy Guiliani defend her after a Politico piece. A N.Y. candidate accuses

Washington experienced an influx of Tea Partiers this past weekend. Not only did Glenn Beck host his Restoring Honor rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on

A coalition of over 80 HIV/AIDS service organization have sent a letter to Congress seeking increased funding for HIV prevention and care programming in the country. The letter, delivered to top Obama White House officials as well as members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees, calls for millions of dollars in increased spending to combat the epidemic in the U.S. The letter highlights eight areas of federal funding streams, and identifies what the groups say the financial needs in each area are

GUANTANAMO BAY -- After two straight days of absence and a very strange half-day appearance on Thursday, the Office of Military Commissions just confirmed that

As President Bush gets set today to announce his plan for reforming the financial markets, critics already are weighing in to say the proposals don’t amount to

Bailed-out insurance giant AIG will no doubt be a heated topic of discussion today, with The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations reporting that the

Federal authorities told Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday that they will investigate his department over allegations of discrimination and

I just got off the phone with Marcus Epstein, the conservative activist who organized the race and conservatism debate in 2006 that has become a flash point

The way ahead cannot be war, said Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

Huge news if true: according to The New York Times, the Iraqi government has agreed to allow the Kurds to export the oil developed within the borders of their

As the social media-sparked Bank Transfer Day approaches, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that over 650,000 people have joined credit unions in the last four weeks. Credit unions have added $4.5 billion in new accounts since the end of September, CUNA says, reporting that four out of every five credit unions affiliated with the group report that the increase is due to attempts by big banks to raise fees on customers or Bank Transfer Day, a movement birthed by social media that will take place tomorrow. Bank Transfer Day organizer Kristen Christian explained the logic behind the movement on the group’s Facebook page

The commission should call for a “comprehensive overhaul” of offshore drilling regulations that improves communication within MMS, requires “double and triple checking” of drilling activities, and updates standards for environmental review, Birnbaum said.

Politico reported today that 59 percent of Americans -- 61 percent of Democrats and independents and 59 percent of Republicans -- want Congress to pass

The U.N. must reform, Clinton says. It has to become more transparent, more efficient and we will press for those changes. At the same time the United States

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Would-be Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney edged his opponent Rick Santorum by a hair during the Iowa caucuses — defeating him by only eight votes. The Republican Party has deemed it the closest-ever margin of victory in a Republican presidential contest. From CNN : Ron Paul finished a close third, according to the state GOP

The Obama administration released today its latest estimate of the economic cost of its moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. And the numbers