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There is a new political animal in America’s age-old immigration debate: the black bear. A new study says border fences are disrupting the migration of black bears. A recently published study (pdf) to be disseminated to the U.S.

A federal judge this morning ordered five detainees freed from Guantanamo Bay, according to the New York Times. Following closed-door hearings in which the

In an interview with Pennsylvania’s Wayne Independent this morning, second-term Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) officially threw his name in the ring to take on Sen.

President Barack Obama is expected to create a new advisory council Thursday that will focus on quality of life and economic issues facing rural America. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor, will likely lead the effort. An unnamed White House official told the Associated Press that Obama will sign an executive order to establish the Rural Council, and that the advisory group will give recommendations to the administration on a wide variety of interests and issues facing the millions of Americans who live in rural areas, beginning with economic development and job creation

Libertarian Eric Sundwall, who collected twice as many signatures as he needed to make the ballot in the NY-20 special election, might be bounced out of the

Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal looks at President Obama’s efforts to reform defense contracting and is less than impressed: hat goes unanswered is who is

In the wake of his announcement today he is running for President , U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has also established a website to inform and encourage attendance of Iowa’s August straw poll, campaign officials said this afternoon

More on U.S. efforts to aid Pakistanis displaced by the current military efforts against the Taliban. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to know if Blair agrees with harmonizing CIA interrogations with the Geneva-complaint Army Field Manual on interrogations. He

<p>Iraq&rsquo;s national security adviser, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, has an op-ed in The Washington Post <a

Via The Weekly Standard, a USA Today/Gallup poll finds support for Obama’s extended surge in Afghanistan: A narrow majority of Americans support President

I flipped on the radio last night and heard the famously dog-whistle-pitched voice of conservative pundit Mark Levin attacking President Barack Obama for ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion left 11 dead, and the hundreds of active oil and gas rigs off the nation’s shores are among the most dangerous workplaces in America.

There was only a five-minute window, between when the black cloud broke and the pilot and photographer could fly over Germantown, Md., on Sunday afternoon to

The Orlando Sentinel has a really incredible story this morning about intransigence at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA administrator

Attendees at events featuring Atlanta businessman Herman Cain know the 2012 candidate is proud to be an “ABC,” or American Black Conservative . Cain told Iowans Wednesday that his being an ABC was exactly the reason he was singled out for mockery by a television comedian. Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart took note of earlier Cain remarks regarding the length of legislation being passed by Congress

I’m already sick of the arrrrr-pirates-of-Somalia jokes, but as long as we’re talking about piracy, it seemed worth noting that the Pentagon gave the thumbs-up

In the aftermath of Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) defection from the Republican Party earlier this week, we wondered about Sen. Charles Grassley’s (R-Iowa) plans