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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan – The booms began around 1:45 p.m., loud enough to cause you to jump if you’ve never heard a Howitzer fire a

Details are still emerging, but this can’t be good news for the Gulf coast. NBC News reports: Adding insult to the Gulf’s injury, a wellhead hit by a tug

Following a storm of criticism of U.S. Rep.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted Friday that education is at the core of all efforts to promote economic development in rural America, echoing a theme that has appeared numerous times in reports by The Iowa Independent staff. “A well educated work force is critical to a thriving business — to developing new ways of producing goods and providing services.

With profits soaring for hard-rock mining and oil and gas companies doing business on public lands, U.S.

It’s been a low-level foreign policy gaffe swirling around the conservative blogosphere for the past couple of days. I’ll let Anthony G. Martin tell it: We

For weeks, the presidential and vice presidential candidates have been pounding the Wall Street vs. Main Street trope into our heads. Now, the good people at

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico--Sitting in a downtown public library here I began to blog about how the presumed Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, seemed

Back in January, I reported that Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Ritze (R), whose party had just won control of the legislature, was pushing legislation that would

In a letter sent to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Democrats expressed their concerns with anti-environmental policy “riders” in the forthcoming continuing resolution that would fund the government for the remainder of 2011.

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At today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the strategy as being responsive to a

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Don Blankenship -- the unapologetic CEO of Massey Energy, which owns the West Virginia mine where at least 25 coal miners died in an explosion this week -- just

The Ways and Means subcommittee on income security will meet next Thursday to examine how Congress might better address the problem of long-term unemployment,

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Florida Gov. Rick Soctt said on Fox and Friends today that ”you cannot win the presidency if you don’t win in Florida.” Scott said Ronald Reagan and George Bush won the Florida straw poll and went on to win the nomination and the presidency

El Paso and parts of the Rio Grande Valley have some of the nation’s highest numbers of children living in foster care because their parents were removed by

At our affiliate, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer today adds another layer to the tale of growing protest by some large investors in Massey Energy

The Obama Justice Department has asked a judge to dismiss charges against two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists accused of receiving

Aleshia Napier was 18 years old in 2006 when she hung herself with a bed sheet at the Broward Correctional Institution in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after being

Charleston, W.Va. -- In my piece today, I quoted the wife of a worker at a Massey Energy coal mine who said the company denied her husband’s request to take