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President Barack Obama will give a speech on financial regulatory reform this morning at New York’s Cooper Union college, located one mile from Wall Street. He

Senate Small Business Committee Chairwoman Mary Landrieu (D-La.) slammed the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium at a hearing on the ban today.

I spent a bright and lovely morning doing anthropology among the vaccine skeptics, an angry group who blame the government for their children’s medical

In a long-telegraphed speech billed as giving the west a bloody nose, Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday claimed to have enriched some of Iran’s

In a press release, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin’s office announced that he will name a replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd during a 2 p.m. press

This Saturday, July 2, Denver’s Civic Center Park will be filled with women and men banding together under the banner of “slut”. The first organized SlutWalk Denver is part of a grassroots campaign to raise sexual assault awareness and empower women

Khaled Al Mutairi, a Kuwaiti seized in Pakistan in 2001 and held at Guantanamo Bay ever since, on Wednesday became the 28th Guantanamo detainee to win his

A report commissioned by the national oil spill commission found that new safety standards put forward by the Interior Department and the oil and gas industry

Probably the best possible conclusion to this week’s Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S. trilateral talks didn’t come from Washington. Last night, Pakistani Prime

After a jury acquitted Youssef Megahed, an Egyptian-born 23-year-old engineering student from Tampa, Florida, his ordeal with the law didn’t come to an end.

After plastering one abortion provider’s face and name on “Wanted”-style posters all over Charlotte, N.C., anti-abortion rights activist Philip

As senators vote now on the DISCLOSE Act, it’s worth noting that the blogosphere has been alive with activity today -- almost all of which is urging members to

Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) first ad -- which drew the attention of everyone but Martha Coakley’s sleepy campaign staff -- started with President John F.

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute calculates 2.8 million U.S. jobs have been lost to China since 2001, the year the country joined the World Trade

The American Action Forum -- the right’s answer to the Center for American Progress -- launched itself into the public consciousness Tuesday in Washington with

After Andrew Breitbart criticized World Net Daily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah for using his speaking slot at the National Tea Party Convention to raise

Lillis is on the phone reporting or something, so I’m going to steal his thunder on this press release Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell just sent out

As the Senate Judiciary Committee readies for today’s vote on Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, conservative judicial activists are taking stock of the battle that demanded so much of their energy for more than two months.

Here’s one of the most disturbing points made in the Financial Times piece on banks being poised to earn $38.5 billion in overdraft fees this year: Poorest