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Amid constant congressional squabbling over spending and the deficit in Congress, 59 Democrats and Republicans have united in pledging to spend more money for research and prevention efforts to combat the spread of AIDS domestically and worldwide. The Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus , spurred by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), was formerly launched Thursday during a press briefing on Capitol Hill.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has now published online an explanation for changes made to its treatment database entry on cannabis that The American

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is flying back to Washington from a three-day trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He

Rep. Rob Andrews (D-N.J.), offering what he calls unsolicited advice, said that the American people won’t support sending additional troops to Afghanistan on

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele + conservative radio show = hilarious gaffes. The liberal blog Fired Up! has the audio of Steele rolling

America’s “nuclear power renaissance” – and a concurrent Colorado uranium mining revival — could cool considerably in the wake of a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s northeast coast that caused two partial meltdowns at two nuclear reactors and serious problems at two more plants. The growing disaster plaguing four of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors – the third most in the world behind only the United States (104) and France (58) – has sparked unpleasant memories of the Chernobyl meltdown in the Ukraine in 1986 and the Three Mile Island incident in Pennsylvania in 1979.

So says CongressDaily’s Anna Edney, who reports that Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, predicted today that

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

Even as the president’s approval rating slips, Republicans looking to beat him in 2012 — one of their frontrunners, one-time governor of Alaska Sarah Palin,

Satellite measurements released yesterday reveal that Arctic sea ice is shrinking more rapidly than expected, and an older, thicker type of ice is now at its

Members of the Tea Party Nation e-mail list received an astonishing e-mail this afternoon, naming, rebutting, and attacking their critics. Sherry Phillips’s

Yesterday I was chatting with a House aide about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell legislative repeal. Before I could ask about inflection points for passage in a

Facing morning headlines that auto dealers are dropping out of the popular Cash for Clunkers program because the government hasn’t reimbursed the vouchers,

Don’t expect to see many detainees once held at Bagram Air Field return to the fight, Vice Adm. Robert Harward, detention operations chief for Gen. Stanley

House Democratic leaders just ended a much-anticipated press conference to unveil the details of their health care reform bill. Trouble was, the details were

Today, the Senate approved the long-stalled Small Business Jobs Act, a deficit-neutral bill containing tax cuts and an array of other measures to aid businesses

<div>One of the signature achievements of the surge, according to General David Petraeus and the White House, has been the creation of so-called

Whatever else there is to be said about mountaintop mining (and there’s plenty), no one can deny that it makes a place ugly. How could it not? The technique