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Snowe gets a nice reward for her yea vote. Here’s what she’s likely to ask for. Dole and other pro-health reform Republicans stand to profit from their

Democrats and Republicans reached an 11th-hour deal on the federal budget tonight, trimming more than $38 billion and averting a looming shutdown of the government. Colorado’s senior Sen

Efforts to make an HIV vaccine were dealt a severe blow in September when a 3,000-person trial of a Merck vaccine failed. An analysis later showed that that not

Aztec, N.M., maintains it is no “sanctuary,” and for months has led a campaign to shed the designation.

TPM has a great roundup today of the escalating Republican argument that closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility could be all but impossible because --

Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced that he’d whip aggressively for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation bill,

Contrary to nearly a year of stern insistence from the Obama administration that Israel refrain from all growth in occupied Palestinian territory -- an

Staff at a meeting of the national oil spill commission today seemed perplexed as to why rig workers did not recognize that a key pressure test failed shortly

Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Treasury Department unveiled a new monthly scorecard on the administration’s efforts to stabilize

The U.S. Senate passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 on Tuesday, after the bill was approved Monday by the Republican-controlled House of

Barry Ritholtz posts a clear summary of the foreclosure process, to help understand the massive unfolding foreclosure fraud scandal. Here is, document by

The Personhood Florida logo (Pic via personhoodfl.com) A group that wants Florida to define life as beginning at the moment of conception has officially launched its “personhood petition.” According to a blog post on the group’s website, the new Florida ProLife Personhood Amendment is based on language by the Family Research Council and American Family Association. Personhood amendments have cropped up across the country — most notably in Mississippi where, although support was strong, a personhood bill was soundly rejected last month. Personhood Florida’s Bryan Longworth told The Florida Independent after the Mississippi loss that he remains undeterred

A heated battle on the floor of the Michigan Senate Thursday morning left State Sen. John Gleason (D-Flushing) so outraged that he spent Thursday night locked in the office of Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer (D-East Lansing). In an interview with Michigan Messenger, Gleason announced he plans to carry the protest on into Friday and is calling on citizens to join him Friday night in the Capitol as well to protest the Republican-dominated Senate’s failure to pass a long-delayed anti-bullying measure

After months of denials that the architects of November’s horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai had anything to do with Pakistan, the Pakistani government

The head of the Electrification Coalition says he is confident that a proposal to incentivize electric vehicles will pass Congress next year as part of a narrow

Scientists for years have warned about the irreversible damage to Appalachian ecosystems caused by mountaintop removal coal mining (which makes sense,

Gun control advocates say North Carolina’s limits on gun purchases reduce the likelihood of the type of rampage that erupted Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., but

Republicans are groaning over this announcement today from former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge: After careful consideration and many conversations with friends

Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is criticizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the time it is taking to consider license renewal applications from aging nuclear power plants.

Here is the complete text of the action brought for damages and injunctive relief for the taping and disclosure of plaintiffs’ private conversations

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial America’s toughest sheriff who pushed for SB 1070 and parades inmates around in pink, faces another scandal: His office