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Texas A&M University System Chancellor Mike McKinney is stepping down effective July 1, 2011. McKinney announced the move in a letter to faculty: Many

The Democrats’ ginormous $787 billion stimulus bill passed the House this afternoon, without a lick of Republican support. The count was 246 to 183, with seven

Here’s a nice catch by Dafna Linzer at ProPublica. At yesterday’s press conference, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs made two statements about the Obama

An amendment to the defense appropriations bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to compel Gen. Stanley McChrystal to testify before Congress by

Conspiracy-theorist Website WorldNetDaily posts the inevitable connection between Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, and it

Public News Service called up TWI’s own Jesse Zwick to hear more about the financial support the Knights of Columbus are giving the National Organization for

During an emotional eight-hour hearing on same-sex civil unions at the capitol in Denver Thursday, a long list of witnesses on both sides of the issue told emotional stories of life as gay and transgender Americans. More than a few wept as they talked about shame, discrimination and systemic bias

The former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental crimes section said Friday that the oil and gas company Enbridge will likely face criminal

In January of 1964, in his first State of the Union Address, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Congress with a formidable challenge. This

Dozens of groups and individuals are asking the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend licensing and other activities at 21 nuclear plants until the

The Washington Independent hereby calls for Spanish Intelligence officers to investigate our contribution to any financial crisis Spain might have in the future, too.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement data received through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that Secure Communities , a federal immigration enforcement program, detains and deports people who are not criminals. # In a press release issued last week, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network indicates that: # “Nationally, 1 in 4 people deported under S-Comm haven’t been convicted of any crime

Today, following a meeting of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB), President Obama is to announce a new jobs program aimed at training

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser is the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in the eastern sector of Afghanistan, known as RC-East.

Obama fuses JFK with RFK -- the cool concealing the intense emotional message. It’s hard to think of a comparable figure on the American landscape. Well, there’s one. Sinatra.

The Louisiana Department of Education released Tuesday a preliminary School Performance Score (SPS) for traditional and Recovery School District (RSD) schools

In a sign of the reach and depth of this financial crisis, even lawyers are getting the layoff ax. The Wall Street Journal’s law blog wrote that Thursday was

Gary Johnson Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson minced few words in his blistering assessment of “ The Marriage Vow ,” a 2012 candidate pledge released by Bob Vander Plaats and The Family Leader last week. When asked for his thoughts on Johnson’s assessment, Vander Plaats first attacked the messenger

The Washington Post reports that a large group of Muslim travelers were removed from a flight Thursday at a Washington-area airport after one of them made a