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As potential challenger after potential challenger decides against challenging her in 2012, Sen. Debbie Stabenow raised $1.5 million in the second quarter of the year and has $4 million on hand for next year’s senatorial election

The BBC is reporting that an attack on a UN compound in northern Afghanistan has left at least 12 people dead, and that the violence occurred during a protest over the recent burning of a Quran in a Florida church.

NDN, formerly called the New Democrat Network, is running Spanish-language ads in Arizona urging Latinos to vote in the midterm elections. Their pitch? Latinos

Talk of a Republican-backed recount of a tightly-contested Wisconsin Supreme Court election has been put on hold for now following the revelation that over

Karen Ignagni, head of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry lobby, fired back today against the charges that the industry is dead set against health

In an interview with TWI, Feinberg admits that some of the confusion and anger surrounding the payments to victims of the spill is my fault but pledges changes to streamline the process.

The ACLU and other immigrants rights groups called today for an overhaul of the immigration detention system, one year after the Immigration and Customs

To build off Matt’s post, check out what Megan Carpentier and Moe Tkacik had to say about the AEY war-profiteering story: MOE: Okay, so the company is

The on-again, off-again meeting between House GOP leaders and the sponsors of a bill to create a new tier of federal unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed finally took place on Thursday in Washington. Jackie Headapohl of MLive.com reports : After the meeting, Rep. Lee issued a statement: “We had a productive meeting with the Speaker and the Majority Leader to discuss this critical issue of providing aid for long-term unemployed workers,” said Representative Barbara Lee.

For Republicans in Washington trying to latch onto the small-government momentum of the Tea Party movement, there’s this little glitch: Their very jobs depend

In Alabama, it is time to get the hell out.

ATLANTIC — Joseph Vanstrom doesn’t fear globalization. And it’s not just because he’s a towering former lineman for Iowa State University’s Cyclone football team

The American Association for Justice -- the trial lawyers’ lobby group -- has just released an astounding statistic: medical malpractice insurance companies’

Loebsack makes his move U.S.

Following weeks of decline by her once vibrant presidential campaign, U.S.

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Ingham County court, citizens from across the state are asking that Michigan’s Emergency Manager law be declared unconstitutional. The Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers to take over local units of government, fire elected officials, sell off or privatize community assets and even dissolve whole cities.

Eight months ago, on Election Day 2008, two members of the fringe New Black Panther Party stood outside of a Philadelphia polling place. They wore

Newt Gingrich ventured deep into Rick Perry territory Wednesday, for a Dallas Tea Party town hall meeting that attracted around 200 folks for a chance to see

The personhood movement has recently grown legs in Wisconsin, where state Rep. Andre Jacque (2nd Assembly District) has promised to introduce a proposed

Sen. Ted Stevens, who conceded defeat to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich yesterday, spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate this morning for the last time in his 40

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) has spent the last several days searching Iowa for support for a potential bid for the GOP nomination for president. The Des Moines Register reports the Congressman from Michigan is eyeing the race — and the potential challengers — carefully

A recently released report (PDF) by Protecting Ohio’s Protectors found that since 2008, Ohio public employees have made contract concessions on the state and

Following recent layoffs of 13 firefighters in Lancaster, Ohio, despite the local union’s concessions, the town’s mayor, Republican David S. Smith, says the