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Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, announced the latest change today to the way he distributes

The overwhelming reaction in Europe to the election of Sen. Barack Obama has been one of enthusiasm and support. Yet a scan of the European press also reveals

Minnesota congresswoman draws on Obama fears at St. Louis event.

Americans seem a lot quicker to be roused by the prospect of foreign nationals spending money in U.S. elections than, say, big domestic corporations, but why

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GUANTANAMO BAY -- A brief detour from my Guantanamo coverage, as a State Department official, speaking only on background, confirmed something else I’ve been

Apropos of my earlier post about the Anbar Awakening, subscription-only IraqSlogger has an interesting report suggesting that Awakening/tribal/Sons of Iraq

One of the lower-key workshops at the How to Take Back America conference was How to Deal With Vote Fraud, the Census, and ACORN, where Republican pols Kris

Tomorrow, the federal backing for some unemployment benefits will expire, with Congress away until next week. That means another wave of Americans will lose

Tom Ricks reported earlier this week that Gen. Odierno’s relationship with the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Chris Hill, is deteriorating rapidly. Hill denied

The RNC’s research arm, not distracted by scandal, is still firing away at its target. Today’s best oppo dump: a bunch of quotes (and reported quotes) from

Check out politics reporter Sridhar Pappu’s first piece for TWI, where he explores McCain’s ongoing struggle to rally the GOP base.

TPM has been all over the bizarre John Perry military coup against Obama column at Newsmax.com--an incredibly popular conservative site, as I discovered in my

LYNCHBURG, Va. --They would have been the perfect couple, a marriage of experience and candor and simple toughness with the young avatar of the hopes and dreams

After strong criticism Talisman Energy, a Pennsylvania gas hydrofracking company, has pulled a children’s coloring book it had put out a few weeks ago to convince people that fracking was a perfectly safe practice. The Washington Post reports : A natural gas drilling company says it’s no longer distributing a children’s coloring book featuring a hard hat-wearing dinosaur that’s been criticized by a Massachusetts congressman and lampooned by Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert… Critics called the coloring book’s depiction of land before and after drilling overly rosy. The post-drilling image adds a rainbow and an eagle to the scene where the hydraulic fracturing drilling process took place

I’m just starting to dig through an advance copy of The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s new book on President Obama’s first year in office, set for publication on

An ongoing EPA investigation of possible contamination from hydrofracking in Wyoming has found significant amounts of cancer-causing fracking chemicals in a freshwater aquifer in that state. ProPublica reports : A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

John Cook at Gawker is going after Sarah Palin for collaborating with Lynn Vincent on her forthcoming book Going Rogue. As Charles Johnson noted, and as I

David Krikorian, the Reagan conservative-turned-Democrat who was vying for the chance to run against Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) in November, might be conceding

Sixty anti-abortion rights billboards placed throughout Oakland in mid-June have created controversy and generated publicity for the groups that sponsored them. Now they’re coming down.

Maybe now we’ll finally get to find out where the high court’s newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, really stands when it comes to whether the Second Amendment

Speaking of ousted United Nations deputy representative to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith, Galbraith was recently accused in a New York Times piece of promoting