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Oil suspected to be coming from BP’s Deepwater Horizon gusher is washing up on the white-sand beaches of western Florida today, scrambling clean-up crews who

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently caught her staff by surprise last month when she told NBC’s Brian Williams she would release her medical records to the

All four GOP candidates featured at this weekend’s Florida Senate debate, hosted by the Florida Family Policy Council in Orlando, discussed their views on a range of controversial social issues, including abortion.

First lady Michelle Obama announced in a posting on BarackObama.com that Charlotte will host the 46th Democratic National Convention in 2012. St. Louis,

Former Sen. Norm Coleman hosted a fundraiser for Rep. Chip Cravaack on Friday afternoon at the Minneapolis Club, part of Coleman’s increasing support for Cravaack who is seen as vulnerable

Sen. Barack Obama has one of the most sophisticated organizations in political history, as many observers have noted, and his aides’ attention to detail is

Student loan defaults are on the rise, according to a new federal tracking system. For students who began repaying their loans in 2008, 13.8 percent have since defaulted. For profit institutions had 25 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years, and public four-year colleges had 10.8 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years.

When he goes on Fox News! Yes, the former vice president is going to sit down with Chris Wallace on Sunday to discuss the CIA’s torture disclosures and the

It wasn’t long ago that Afghan president Hamid Karzai stunned observers by telling U.N. officials that it was nearing time to set a timeline for withdrawing

State Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Riverview (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Riverview, this week introduced an anti-abortion bill that aims to further restrict third-trimester abortions and to place new restrictions on women’s health clinics

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday and reiterated his opposition to a settlement freeze.

For the past week, The Road to Serfdom has been the number-one selling book on Amazon.com. Authored by the Austrian émigré economist F.A. Hayek and first

Sen. Mary Landrieu (La.), the moderate Democrat who’s been a loud critic of her party’s plan to create a public insurance option, is warming to the proposal,

The states’ collective budget shortfall is estimated to be $30 billion and rising. Required by law to balance their books, states are cutting social services even as demand is rising. Can Congress come to the rescue?

Three members of he Anoka-Hennepin School Board are up for reelection in 2011, and challengers have filed to run in two of those seats.

The president-elect has raised the expectations for all of us, patriotic expectations, moral expectations, expectations of what it means to be a citizen. But as Obama raises expectations, he must also lower them. There are going to be sacrifices involved. That’s the trick.

Gov. Scott Walker; Source: Gateway Technical College, Flickr Starting Tuesday, Wisconsin Democrats and labor groups will start an effort to gather more than 550,000 signatures by mid-January on a petition to recall Gov

State Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) With the beginning of session only days away, Florida legislators have been busy filing a slew of anti-abortion bills.