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Just out from the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee: “If Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons capability, it would pose a significant threat to peace

Obama fires Mineral Management Service head Elizabeth Birnbaum. Sandra Day O’Connor says Arizona’s government must find a way to show the state is not biased

I’m hearing some smart Republican pushback to today’s Quinnipiac Poll -- given its record in the state, one of the more credible surveys -- showing Gov. Jon

Minnesota Majority, Minnesota Voters Alliance and the North Star Tea Party Patriots lost a case in court on Friday when U.S.

Newly arrived Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) asks a question close to my heart: How can Defense Secretary Bob Gates institutionalize the counterinsurgency lessons of

She’d have to move to Anchorage, of course, but is it too soon to talk about State Sen. Sylvia Allen (R-Ariz.) as a possible governor of

An anonymous White House quote on preventive detention has put civil liberties advocates on the offensive.

This month, Toledo’s largest public employee union agreed to a deal with the city that cost them around $3 million dollars in concessions; union leaders say

School board members in the affluent Metro Detroit town of Northville are considering asking the state to appoint an Emergency Manager because contract negotiations between administrators and employees have stalled. Though the district has more than double the median household income of the state as a whole, state education funding cuts have forced Northville to cut $4.1 million in expenses and layoff 65 full- and part-time employees. Superintendent Mary Kay Gallagher told The Detroit News that the board is now talking about requesting an Emergency Manager “as a last resort” if the district can’t come to an agreement on a two-year collective bargaining agreement

Addressing the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, President Obama tonight pledged to compensate the people of the Gulf.

If you’re a regular reader of the print edition of The New York Times -- yes, they still have a print version -- you may have noticed a curious full-page

Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander is up before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning. (As I type, he’s giving his opening statement.) He’s the head of the

Talk radio has been abuzz with mockery of Sen.-elect Al Franken (D-Minn.) all day, but this must be the most ironic attack yet -- a fake interview between

It’s not easy to recall, but the cornerstone of the administration’s policy to stabilize the banking system is the so-called PPIP -- the Public-Private

Informal, behind-the-scenes negotiations began this week to merge the House and Senate health care reform bills, Roll Call reported Monday. But there’s still

First announced in May 2009, Tucker Carlson’s new conservative website The Daily Caller is launching on Jan. 11. The next day, fans and friends (no crashers!)

The most significant portion of President Obama’s remarks today about his Northwest Airlines Flight 253 reviews is his explanation of what went wrong: The

DENVER, COLO. -- After a relaxing long weekend at home in Phoenix -- Sen. John McCain spent the Fourth of July holiday at his ranch in Sedona -- the campaign

Former Colorado Congressman and anti-illegal immigration crusader Tom Tancredo has no patience with Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Perry, the Texas governor with the Hollywood hair who fired up the right when he announced his candidacy but who has stumbled under the national spotlight ever since. In the wake of last week’s GOP candidate debate, Tancredo decried Perry as an arrogant “name-calling, open border, pro-amnesty politician.” In a release sent out by his “ Team America ” political action committee (“Dedicated to securing our nation’s borders”), Tancredo typically held nothing back, roaring through the release with the kind of rhetorical engine revving that conjures the smell of exhaust and burnt tire rubber