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It looks like the renewable energy standard is going to get a high-profile, bipartisan boost. Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) are

It’s clear now: When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to a podium just before 3 p.m. yesterday to announce a bicameral deal on the $789 billion

Why did Blackwater/Paravant’s personnel carry weapons in Afghanistan for personal use, anyway? Brian McCracken, the former Paravant vice president, conceded

It is a simple (and poll-tested) fact: Most people like the government services they themselves consume, and they’re less than keen on taxes. When governments

That headline might not sound like news, but the war between Media Matters and Andrew Breitbart has new developments every week. The liberal news watchdog group

Orrin Hatch announces he will vote against Elena Kagan’s confirmation. Michael Steele says he doesn’t think we should be fighting in

The Republican National Committee emails reporters President Obama’s comment that the stock market is sort of like a tracking poll in politics and that people

Remember when I reported that the Obama administration and its allies were looking to salve legitimacy concerns in the Afghan presidential election by

Although President Barack Obama ‘s joint address was billed as a proposal roll-out for the American economy and unemployment, there was a underlying theme of warning to those in Washington that everyday citizens are growing tired of partisan politics, bickering and stalemates. It remains unclear if the plan or the caution found favor.

Colorado’s coal industry is on fire lately, going after natural gas producers with gusto in the wake of last year’s controversial Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act , which requires Xcel Energy to convert several coal-fired power plants on Colorado’s Front Range over to natural gas or alternative fuel sources such as wind and solar. Gas is touted as burning up to 50 percent cleaner then coal and dramatically reducing carbon dioxide emissions as well as the amount of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury spewing into Colorado’s air.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel today released another slew of previously-classified legal memos, setting forth the department’s justifications

This poll by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance in partnership with Pajamas Media doesn’t ask much that hasn’t appeared on other

How hard is it to watch a clip of an interview? Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano made the following observation

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.

Today, two companies -- ADP, a payroll processor, and Challenger, Gray & Christmas, an outplacement consultancy -- both reported employment numbers that

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

Joan Walsh points to a video I’d been wondering about -- the footage shot by cameramen who were trailing Andrew Breitbart at CPAC, monitoring his conversations

BP is paying Kenneth Feinberg and his law firm, Feinberg Rozen, $850,000 a month to administer the company’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, Bloomberg

John Yoo should be fired, disbarred and prosecuted for war crimes, according to anti-war activists who greeted the University of California at Berkeley law

After Congress released the second $350 billion in TARP funding, President Obama made sure new rules wouldn’t be so strict that they would scare away the employees of recipient companies.

The Florida Senate is ready to take up its version of a bill that tightens eligibility requirements for people seeking unemployment compensation. The bill ‘s sponsor, Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, has been haggling with her House counterpart over a provision that would shorten the number of weeks people can receive benefits from 26 to 20. So far, she has stood firm

There are 1,200 National Guard troops on the U.S.-Mexico border, working as extra eyes and ears for Border Patrol agents to watch for trafficking and illegal

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