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In what appears to be an attempt to gin up an October Surprise, the McCain campaign teamed up with the American Conservative Union today to make a campaign

Via David Dayen, Tom Braithwaite at the Financial Times reports a blockbuster for proponents of strong bank reform: Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.) provision to

The president’s semi-active Twitter account just sent out this message: The House is voting on a historic clean energy bill today. Have you called your

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that the department would extend temporary immigration protections for an additional eighteen months for Haitians currently residing in the United States. # In a press release Napolitano announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti beneficiaries effective July 23, 2011 and for an additional 18 months.

It’s just an early version -- or so the Democrats are saying -- but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for

A new federal funding formula from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta will result in a reduction of $2.1 million in federal funding for the state of Michigan for HIV testing and prevention by 2014. Advocates and health officials warn the cuts could have a negative impact on the state’s public health. “The prevention measures to minimize incidence of HIV also impact numerous other Public Health problems such as sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, cervical cancer, infertility, low birth weight, infant mortality, substance abuse and mental health,” says Renee Canaday, deputy health director of the Ingham County Health Department

The tea party movement, a phenomenon that many deem responsible for installing Florida’s all-Republican cabinet and turning over control of the House of Representatives to the GOP, continues to demonstrate its influence throughout the state and the country.

On Tuesday, we broke the story of an undisclosed Office of Legal Counsel memo from 2007 about what interrogation techniques were and weren’t legal for the CIA

Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction

Moderate Democrats have grown wary of big spending bills, fearing that support for such measures could haunt them on the campaign trail this year.

The week before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is one of countless stories poking gentle fun at the stranger items on the schedule. Alex

Eartha Melzer, our colleague at Michigan Messenger, has been doing some of the best reporting on Dow Chemical’s successful efforts to evade responsibility for

The Wall Street Journal Political Diary reported that Republicans are worried that Gov. Charlie Crist, independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, is

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he still would like to see hearings on abuses of the 14th Amendment by illegal immigrants who come

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater -- sorry, Xe Services, the new name for the company -- to say that Blackwater shell company Paravant

Michael Barbaro previews a possible New York Senate bid by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging

Action comes less than a month after Pentagon leadership suggested the ban on open gay service wouldn’t be overturned this year.

TPM reports that city records from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, indicate that there is more to the story of her pay cut. On the

Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration has ignored its own internal regulation and stopped requiring manufacturers of medical devices – such as