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Even if the White House pitch included measures to help homeowners, experts say restructuring disparate, toxic mortgages would prove difficult. With an embedded TWI/ANP video, Pain on Main St.

Gov. Terry Branstad and Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn want Nevada to move its caucus date from Jan. 14 to Jan

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has distributed a press release stating, if circuitously, that Republicans will agree to start formal debate on

The official line coming from the six GOP senators who sponsored, then voted against, the failed proposal to create a deficit commission was that they didn’t

He may not have officially declared his candidacy yet, but Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty continues to make it clear that he plans to run for the Republican

Iran may not be in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. North Korea withdrew from it in 2003. According to the Obama administration’s new

This morning, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) raised the prospect that the Senate might hold another vote on extending federal unemployment insurance benefits before

A congressional report released Wednesday blames defense contractor KBR for the recent electrocution of a U.S. soldier in Iraq, in contradiction to what the

Twenty-one Democrats joined all but one Republican in a vote to repeal the sweeping health care law’s individual mandate Tuesday evening. The motion failed

The Rachel Maddow Show once again turned its attention to the extremist record of those endorsing Gov. Rick Perry’s August prayer event, hosted by the

Chuck Darrell, who previously served as communications director of the Minnesota Family Council, will head the media efforts of Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition of conservative Christian groups that are working to convince voters to back a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. “We are very fortunate to have a seasoned, skilled communications professional such as Chuck Darrell join our campaign,” John Helmberger, chairman of Minnesota for Marriage, said in a statement .

Unclear why they were there as yet; according to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad they were helping train the Pakistanis in counterinsurgency. But there’s

Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep

When an economic bailout gets political, all bets are off. Look what happened when the German banking system melted down during the Weimar Republic in 1931.

Much remains unclear about the substance of the significant actions that CIA Director Leon Panetta conceded that the agency didn’t sufficiently brief to

Immigrant rights groups are trying new down payment approach to reform: small bills now, major legislation later. The Washington Post’s Krissah Thompson

Port Arthur, Tex., is the end of the line for TransCanada’s proposed pipeline for tar sands oil, Keystone XL, and a public hearing there drew a massive crowd

In its first such move since 1970, the U.S. Department of Labor is taking aim at risky exposures for minors, and the proposed rules could spell changes for family farming operations.

As the number of displaced people rises due to the fighting in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Nov. 4, 2009. During the summer, when swine flu