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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- At a short press availability in his campaign office here, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman said that a GOTV volunteer’s

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is expected to announce his candidacy for President Monday, several media outlets, including USA Today , are reporting, and that announcement could very take place in Iowa. Pawlenty is scheduled to be in Des Moines Monday morning, Eric Woolson, a senior consultant for Pawlenty confirmed

Most of the funding for the National Organization for Marriage, a 501(c)(4) grassroots group dedicated to opposing same-sex marriage, comes from a few

Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) bill overhauling the regulation of banks and financial firms has passed, 59 to 39. In short, the bill makes the financial system

It’s a historic night for South Carolina Republicans -- they nominated candidates who broke significant gender and racial hurdles, while a third incumbent

The organizers of Friday’s prayer rally at Ford Field have targeted not only Muslims but also Freemasons, claiming that the group’s practices allow the Biblical false god Baal to control parts of the United States. Rachel Tabachnick at Talk2Action has been listening to the frequent conference calls that Transformation Michigan, the key local organizing group, has been hosting and reports on a pre-rally planning call from September.

Interest groups are already lining up to use the Supreme Court’s decision today in Ricci v. DeStefano in their favor, whether they support or oppose the

Despite improving economic indicators in GDP, consumer spending and business optimism, the United States’ unemployment rate remains high -- flirting with double

Charter school champion The Walton Foundation has released its 2010 giving breakdown for the group’s education donations. Seven geographic areas received

After analysis by the House Fiscal Agency and the House Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, Michigan State University’s tuition increase was found to be within the parameters set forth by the state, sparing the university from more funding cuts.

Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) A federal judge has ruled that water coming from state-operated Stormwater Treatment Areas, and running south into the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, has been exceeding pollution limits designed to protect the Florida Everglades. The ruling is the result of a long-running dispute between the state of Florida and the federal government, which aruged that the state was allowing for too much pollution at Loxahatchee

A recent report released by Family Health International, the Guttmacher Institute and the University of New Mexico shows that the United States has seen in a rise in the number of women who use an intrauterine device (IUD) as a method of birth control in the past few years.

Two weeks after receiving a standing ovation from a largely Latino crowd at an anti-abortion rally in Los Angeles, Perry was met with a “tepid” and

<p>Remember all that stuff about benchmarks in Iraq? And how&mdash;huzzah!&mdash;the Iraqi government had spent nearly 25 percent of its 2007

The Minnesota Independent covered a variety of issues this week, from in-depth looks at U.S.

An HIV-positive 30-year-old resident of Minnesota has been convicted by a jury of attempted first degree assault for allegedly failing to use a condom during sex. United Press International reports that while the jury believed the man had disclosed his HIV-positive status to his partner, it was obligated to find him guilty of the attempted assault charge. The man’s attorney has said he will challenge the guilty verdict.

On national security issues, Kagan is something of a blank slate -- but her stance on executive power offers a window into her views.

The Republican National Committee has made available two lengthy voter surveys conducted in New Jersey and Virginia as Republican candidates were winning

Education and immigrant advocacy organizations are calling on President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to stop the deportation of young undocumented immigrants who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. # The act, which was reintroduced in Congress this week , would grant unauthorized immigrants who entered the U.S.

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons ) GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s recent call for a “humane” path to immigration enforcement for undocumented immigrants does not seem to have hurt his poling numbers. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports today : ”A month before voting starts, Gingrich has established double-digit leads in some polls in the early voting states of Iowa and South Carolina.” According to the Pew Hispanic Center , two thirds of 10.2 million undocumented immigrants have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years

U.S. Senator from Colorado Michael Bennet, this week asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner what would happen if Congress failed to raise the debt limit

You wouldn’t think it would be news that the president of the United States went along with 66 other nations to sign a statement declaring that homosexuality

The House Financial Services Committee this morning passed legislation to create a new agency designed to protect consumers from tricks and traps in the banking