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The White House pushed back a little bit on the czars story today, with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs pointing out how, in the past, Republicans like Sen.

Police in the small town of Williamston — located about 20 miles east of Lansing — are investigating an alleged incident of cyber-bullying against a 13-year-old middle school student.

A scheduled McCain campaign fund-raiser in Atlanta next week is raising questions about Sen. John McCain’s commitment to cleaning up Washington. Ralph Reed, one

Pic via dbmathews.com The waiting list to enroll in Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program grew to more than 1,070 people by last Thursday, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, known as ADAP, are a nationwide payer of last resort for people who cannot afford their HIV/AIDS medications

The national oil spill commission released today four reports written by commission staff assessing the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill. The reports

Minnesota Congressman told college activists at a gathering last week that conservatives like Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann want to keep women barefoot and pregnant. “We live in an era of extremism,” Ellison said in his July 6 address to the 2011 Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C.

Many experts say slow job recovery is a simple economic reality going back at least 20 years.

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The New York Times reported today that BP has indicated it may not be able to pay all of the $20 billion in compensation it has promised victims of the Gulf oil

When is this ever going to end? Conservative lawmakers are seizing on ACORN’s troubles to once again go after the Community Reinvestment Act, an anti-redlining

From the counter-intuitive file: Yesterday, the Democratic National Committee launched a new campaign called Exxon-McCain ’08, seeking to paint Sen. John McCain

Despite his apparent disagreement with her on a range of issues, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is emerging as one of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s

Everyone’s going to be focusing on President Obama’s remarks on the economy at his first White House press conference, but CNN’s Ed Henry got in a question

Roll Call reports: Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) announced Monday that he plans to introduce legislation to repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t

A newly proposed spending bill from U.S. House Republicans would dramatically cut funding for comprehensive sex education and increase spending on abstinence-only education programs

Not only would new investment in neglected road, bridge and other infrastructure strengthen the country’s structural backbone, experts argue, it would replace lost jobs and help the country climb out of the current recession.

The National Immigration Forum — a member of a task force created by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help improve its Secure Communities

The New York Daily News reports that Van Jones has taken a job at the Center for American Progress, noting that the former Obama administration green jobs guru

The affidavit that Obama foe Larry Sinclair claims to have filed in a California court, in which he accuses birther Orly Taitz of trying to get him to lie on

Peter Baker’s news analysis of the tax payment problems of some Obama nominees is deeply strange. The premise is right—the Democrats look bad after a week of

As if there weren’t enough already to worry about during this credit crisis, now there’s a possible surge of bank failures ahead. So far this year, three