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After toxic gasses initially turned them away, two teams of inspectors have re-entered the Upper Big Branch mine this afternoon to begin their investigation

More than a dozen Republicans introduced a bill in the Minnesota House Thursday aimed at authorizing the sale of “Choose Life” license plates in Minnesota, with sales revenue going to groups that oppose abortion. The bill is nearly identical to one passed in 2003 in Florida, one of 23 states that produces the plates. But as the Florida Independent found, tracking where funds raised through the license plate sales wasn’t an easy task.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) went hunting for Blair to say that the Bush administration didn’t pressure intelligence analysts ahead of the Iraq WMD National

These banks are way too involved in the economy, and they have been way too involved in protesting this bill, one advocate said.

Even before Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) was sworn in Tuesday, less than a week after his special election victory against a pair of feuding Democrats, pundits

An American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees council is lashing out at the Governor’s Office after the Iowa Board of Regents unanimously approved a 4 percent raise for regent university presidents Thursday.

This morning, the Commerce Department released its latest set of data on income and consumption. The good news? They are both growing -- Americans are earning

DAYTON, Ohio -- Sen. Barack Obama gave a rousing, thoughtful and detailed address on education today, telling about 750 supporters in a high school here that

A district court Judge in Ohio yesterday rejected a lawsuit from the Susan B. Anthony List, which argued an Ohio elections law prohibiting false claims was

On Feb. 23, I broke a story about how the Senate Armed Services Committee determined that Blackwater employees in Afghanistan signed for hundreds of AK-47s and

Last month, TWI examined the schism within the Libertarian Party over the rise of Wayne Allyn Root, a showy Fox News staple and recent libertarian convert who

The Hill reports on the battle brewing between liberal and conservative Democrats over whether to move forward with a clean energy bill that does not address

A new approach by terrorists relies on operatives with little training who don’t fit the traditional profile for attacks of little sophistication but with very lethal intent.

Senate Dems actually appear to be addressing Joe Wilson’s concerns. And really, his outburst was mild by international standards. Obama gets a health care

Some thorough legal analysis by Eugene Fidell of Yale, solicited by Adam Serwer. Fidell thinks that Gen. McChrystal’s comments were disrespectful but they

Colorado US Senator Mark Udall on Thursday denounced a move by Republican members of the House seeking to postpone repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy that bars gay soldiers from serving openly.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson said that Gov

Nicolle Wallace — the McCain campaign veteran most despised by the base -- as they believe she was the one leaking damaging lines about Sarah Palin — tells

With this morning’s news that employers laid off 524,000 workers in December, at least one prominent economist has some news of his own: The economy is the

After I wrote my earlier posts about how the National Rifle Association opposes the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and explaining the