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The ACLU filed a formal complaint yesterday claiming U.S. citizens and legal residents were wrongly targeted for a raid in April by Immigration and Customs

The American Association of School Administrators released a statement today on the Atlanta Public Schools teaching scandal: At its regularly scheduled

From CNN: Lincoln Chafee Monday will formally announce his bid for Rhode Island governor Monday. The former Republican senator-turned-independent will

Previewing next week’s 47-nation Washington conference on nuclear security, senior National Security Council aides Gary Samore and Ben Rhodes told reporters

A majority of South Carolina Democratic Party’s executive committee voted Thursday night to reject a protest against the results of the state’s Senate primary,

Keeping his presser-a-day streak alive, this morning President-elect Barack Obama filled two more cabinet slots, nominating former Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) as

Remember the good-old-days (like a month ago) when leading economists were pushing the federal government to boost the economy with $200 - $300 billion in new

Democrat Kathy Hochul is reportedly streaming ahead of Republican Jane Corwin in the Buffalo-area special election that has been marked out as a first test of the controversial GOP congressional budget plan crafted by Paul Ryan that seeks to “save” Medicare by turning it into a voucher system. Hochul hammered on the Ryan Medicare plan and Corwin defended it mostly by backing away from it. “Just for the record, I am not decimating Medicare!” she told seniors in the aging upstate district

Republican party officials filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to overturn the ban on “soft money,” or unlimited campaign contributions, that is the

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial unemployment insurance claims declined to 457,000, from 468,000 last week. The moving average

The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry trade association, quickly followed news of a new rapid response system being developed by four of the

In February, I did some reporting about how it was far from clear whether the Obama administration embraced the proposition that public diplomacy is a national

A group of local pastors and the Lansing branch of the NAACP held a press conference today inside a Lansing courthouse to raise some serious questions about the fatal shooting of a 17 year-old girl in March by a Lansing police officer. The shooting took place in the early morning hours of March 14th at a South Lansing Bank of America

After announcing Wednesday that the “smoking jalapenno ” had been found on a farm in Mexico, witnesses at a hearing Thursday continued to dance around the

White House: Decision to appoint new social secretary will not affect donors’ access to lawmakers. Liz Cheney’s group attacks lawyers defending Gitmo

A striking new study from the Pew Research Center shows that more than half of Americans -- 55 percent, to be exact -- have suffered a layoff, had their hours

Ben Smith catches Sarah Palin indulging Rusty Humphries, a conservative radio host given to obsessing about the citizenship of President Obama, in some

Yesterday’s post about the freerepublic.com habits of Maj. Stefan Cook was re-posted at the site, where it drew (as of right now) 145 comments. From