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I knew that if I said something, I wouldn’t have a job tomorrow, says former miner Chuck Nelson.

As the House passed the 2011 defense authorization bill this afternoon containing a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Defense Secretary Gates issued a video

OXFORD, Miss. -- The Bullet looked downright angry with Sen. Barack Obama after Friday night’s debate. Standing in the Spin Room next to the debate

A bill in the Texas House seeks to criminalize substance abuse during pregnancy. Currently, no such state or national law exists; however, for years, various

The tobacco industry is fighting a lonely battle against health insurance for poor kids. A coalition of tobacco industry groups ran a full-page ad in the

Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, points out that Rep. Charlie Rangel’s

Via Ezra Klein, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study this month on whether immigration hurts the economy and takes away jobs from

Eric Kleefeld points to the internals of a Fox News poll -- one that shows President Obama’s overall approval rating dipping into the mid-40s -- that has a mere

The junior senator from New York talks with Lloyd Grove about her successful preemptive drubbing of Harold Ford, sounding about as giddy as it’s possible for

With the economy this bad, people obviously are cutting back on their spending. But they’re also changing their spending patterns, and those choices sometimes

A bill that would ban taxpayer funding to clinics that perform abortions — and caused significant controversy over the definition of rape — has been changed by the bill’s author , Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey.

Just before 3 p.m. Central Standard Time on Thursday, Fox News removed a controversial article linking a student suicide with President Barack Obama ‘s Wednesday afternoon speech on deficit reduction

Another vote on a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed may come to the floor of the Senate as early as tonight,

Though the mainstream media has left the story alone, reports of a new slick of oil spotted about 40 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, near British Petroleum’s Maconda well, have many concerned. Though the theories are un-comfirmed by BP, many worry that the oil might be the result of yet another BP spill . Several samples collected by the Mobile Press-Register in late August bore the same chemical footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil, according to chemists with Louisiana State University

Update, 8:50 a.m.: I am retracting this post, published yesterday, titled Inside This Morning’s White House Afghanistan Meeting: Anger With Eikenberry,

Since Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory in Massachusetts last month, the thinking among a good number of moderate Democrats seems to be that simply having

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City to lay out the Obama administration’s new counterterrorism

A new report published by two conservative think tanks argues the cognitive ability of teachers is on average lower than private sector workers with similar

Sea turtles are washing up dead along the Gulf Coast, leading scientists to suspect that the oil spill could be to blame. Brian Skoloff of The Associated Press

After facing a barrage of attacks aired by outside right-wing groups, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) is getting a bit of help in his Senate race in the form of a