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The headline of a just-released Senate Republican Policy Committee document on what to do with Guantanamo Bay detainees: Meet Your New Neighbor, Khalid Sheikh

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to halt federal funding of National Public Radio by a largely partisan vote of 228-192. One House member voted

A potential GOP candidate getting flak from Fox News’ conservative anchors for criticizing President Obama? That was the case for Tim Pawlenty on Wednesday when the Fox and Friends new macho image isn’t sitting well with some of Fox News’ conservative anchors who called Pawlenty’s recent comments about President Obama, “inappropriate,” “out of hand” and possibly “bad for the country.” The Fox and Friends crew took Pawlenty to task on Wednesday after Pawlenty made a comment on Tuesday that Obama gets so scared by intelligence briefings that he soils himself.

The heads of the Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition -- Govs. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) and Don Carcieri (R-R.I.) -- today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry

Michael Linden and Heather Boushey from the Center for American Progress take a close look at the recently released census data, and find income inequality

Medicare and its beneficiaries paid four times the average supplier cost for standard-issue power wheelchairs in the first half of 2007, according to a report

A West Branch girl conceived through in vitro fertilization two years following her father’s death is not eligible to receive his Social Security benefits, according to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2000, as Bruce and Patti Beeler prepared for their wedding following year, the couple learned that Bruce was ill with acute leukemia

Source: Flickr, David_Shankbone About 800 young labor organizers at the AFL-CIO’s Next Up Youth Worker Summit in Minneapolis announced their support for New York Wall Street protesters Sunday. The youth summit attendees compared the protests to the pro-democracy Arab Spring demonstrations in the Middle East and recent protests against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Our piece this morning describes the reluctance of Massey Energy workers to criticize the company for fear of losing their jobs in a part of the country where

Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) just introduced an amendment to the Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill to include a cash-for-clunkers program -- and after

A few days ago Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) announced their opposition to Ambassador Chris Hill, President Obama’s choice to become

Yes, already. Cityview, a Des Moines alt-weekly, talks to Hawkeye State Republicans about the prospects for 2012 GOP candidates. Former Mitt Romney state

As the very, very small chance of a late upset vanishes in NY-23, Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is lashing out and accusing ACORN, the unions and

The CIA has been saying it briefed the leadership of the Congressional intelligence committees in 2002 about the enhanced interrogation techniques used on

Spencer Ackerman has an interesting read up this morning on a forthcoming handbook meant to help Washington policy-makers decide whether to intervene in the

An amusing, rubber-and-glue comment from Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) in a perceptive Glenn Thrush and Marin Cogan piece (one of several from the past 72 hours)

As a reminder that coal mining accidents are not peculiar to either West Virginia or Massey Energy, two miners in Western Kentucky have gone missing after the

The state’s 12 budget bills made their way through the Legislature Tuesday night as Gov. Mark Dayton waited to sign them, ending the 20-day-old state government shutdown.

As Congress vows to investigate possible violations at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine -- where at least 25 miners were killed in an explosion yesterday

Following in the footsteps of House health care leaders, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, plans

Jim Galloway talks to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democratic candidate for governor (an underdog in the primary against former Governor Roy

The new law that allows the governor to appoint Emergency Managers with broad powers to fire elected officials, break contracts and dissolve towns is already forcing public workers to accept new concessions.