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Although he’s no longer in the race, the presidential campaign of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty disclosed that it’s still mired deep in debt this week. The debts reported on the campaign’s quarterly disclosure officially sit at $453,841, with the quarter closing at the end of September

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reminds us that today is the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Boumediene v. Bush, which confirmed

At last count, seven states have cut funding for reproductive services administered by Planned Parenthood, whose reputation has taken a beating from

All of the West Virginia Republican lawmakers’ brouhaha over including the so-called Capito Amendment in the state legislature’s compromise bill authorizing a

Dave Roberts thinks so. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) unlikely support for comprehensive climate legislation represented the best hope for passage of a

A slight majority of Minnesotans support the effort to amend the Minnesota Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, according to the Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll . About 48 percent of Minnesotans support the amendment voters will judge on the November 2012 ballot, 43 percent are opposed to the ban and 8 percent are undecided. The poll shows that people under 34 overwhelmingly rejected the amendment, 58 to 33 percent, and Minnesotans over 65 overwhelmingly approved of the ban at 70 percent to 26 percent.

I don’t have any more yet, but the early speculation on the cable networks is that Iran’s very belated disclosure of its nuclear facility under construction

Travis Pillow, who has been owning the Florida oil spill beat of late at our sister publication The Florida Independent, reported yesterday that Gov. Charlie

The Democrats pushing for comprehensive health care reform this year got a boost yesterday when the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the

The Republican National Committee emails reporters to announce a hefty fundraising haul for June that leaves it with $23.7 million in the bank, a solid amount

Breaking news from Reuters: An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in

As the bill heads to conference committee, consumer advocates have identified loopholes and weak points where a merged bill could be watered down.

I’m Mary Kane, and you might be surprised to find someone like me here. I started in journalism straight out of school, in 1983, at United Press

Immigrants’ advocates have been complaining for months now that the Obama administration is cracking down hard on illegal immigration while doing nothing to

Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman and current Democratic contender for governor of Virginia, tried to pay off Ralph Nader, to keep

After bloggers criticized Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon for cooking up his own private benchmarks for Iraqi political progress, he elaborated on Brookings’

That was quite an image, seeing Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai announce that he’ll accept a runoff election. Well, not just that, but seeing him flanked by

TransCanada, owners of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, have agreed to reroute the pipeline to avoid the Nebraska Sandhills, a particularly sensitive ecosystem.