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For months now, the media covering the McCain campaign have been clamoring for potential first lady Cindy McCain’s tax returns. Well, the campaign that is so

In keeping with the McCain campaign’s announced strategy of smearing Sen. Barack Obama, here’s an ad from the McCain team portraying Obama as slandering the

In a break with tradition at the Texas Department of Transportation, but in keeping with the larger tradition around the state, a former aide to Gov. Rick Perry

In case you were wondering, as I was, what exactly President-elect Barack Obama intends to talk about during the press conference the transition team scheduled

Officials released new figures yesterday detailing just how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill -- about twelve times more than

Tyler Cowen writes: Many smart people say we should. It seems increasingly clear that we must. For how long can the government prop them up? Are we never

Of the 13 sixth-grade girls asked to explain why they want to take part in an Alexandria, Virginia-based after-school program called SOHO, Katherine Ivette

Today’s poor jobs report cements the fact that the recovery has stalled out and American workers are facing years, if not a decade, of sluggish wage growth and

Just as it did with the Senate’s defense authorization bill, the White House released a statement warning the House Appropriations Committee against placing any

Though most of the Republicans elected to the state legislature ran on a platform of completely rejecting tax increases as a means of balancing the Michigan budget, the reality is that they and Gov.

Cheney drew big applause predicting that Obama would be a one-term president. And when he headed to a radio interview, the Draft Cheney 2012 stickers were snapped up.

The five big unions that represent the majority of Michigan’s 50,000 state workers will join forces to bargain with Gov.

Sunday at 10 am, Becky Martinez, an instructional coach at Denver’s Bruce Randolph School, will take the stage at Rockefeller Center in New York City as a participant in a national Teacher Town Hall , hosted by NBC’s Brian Williams and covered live by the network.

The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012. Liz Mathis , 43, won a clear victory in a special election Tuesday by earning 13,184 votes or 55.8 percent support, according to the Linn County Auditor’s Office.

There were no surprises out of Nevada’s primary election Tuesday, as scandal-plagued Gov. Jim Gibbons lost the GOP nomination for a second term and Tea Party

During the course of the heath reform debate raging on Capitol Hill, some supporters of the public option have conceded that the very nomenclature adopted to

Late last night -- morning in Tehran; and the 30th anniversary of the revolutionary storming of the U.S. embassy there -- President Obama issued a statement to

The first polling on the potential candidates for Delaware’s 2010 U.S. Senate race showed Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) winning easily. Public Policy Polling had

Why are lawmakers pushing an immigration-enforcement measure that may draw a constitutional challenge, over the objections of business groups, immigrants and their advocates? One reason is that voters appear to support it, as a new poll by Suffolk University shows.

The just-released statement from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) following a report from the Congressional Budget Office that the panel’s