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Rep. Keith Ellison called for the resignation of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the “professional left” would only be satisfied with

It’s no news that Republicans are up in arms over the recent White House decision to bar insurance companies from encouraging their customers to oppose the

A Canadian company hoping to revive the long-dormant uranium mining hotbed of southwestern Colorado is touting an economic report prepared for Montrose County showing world uranium demand is expected to double in the coming year, according to the Telluride Daily Planet . But opponents of Energy Fuels’ proposed Piñon Ridge Uranium Mill – what would be the nation’s first new processing facility in nearly three decades if it’s ever built – don’t put much stock in the new economic report produced for Montrose County by Economic & Planning Systems, Inc .

Just as a heads up, tonight the TWI staff will be filing dispatches from around the country. We have three reporters in Arizona keeping us updated on the McCain

I guess there must be a bright side for somebody in any economic downturn, and top bankruptcy lawyers seem to have found it. As hard times hit more businesses,

Republican lawmakers, at least in Colorado, are fond of pointing to America’s vast domestic fossil fuel reserves as a largely untapped means of ending the nation’s dependency on overseas energy imports.

Asked at the George Washington University forum about whether the Obama administration was effectively undermining the Iranian opposition by negotiating with

A recent survey from Public Policy Polling shows Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Livonia) has very little support in his long-shot run for president, even in his home

Breaking news from The Washington Post: The U.S. ambassador in Kabul sent two classified cables to Washington in the last week expressing deep concerns about

Late last week, an amendment proposed by Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D), of New Mexico’s third district, attempting to alter a deal between the U.S.

Judging purely by his policy positions, Toomey is well to the right of the average Pennsylvania voter -- but throughout his career, he’s thrived on a personality that’s reasonable, upright, and, at times, downright boring.

Though the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week included lots of expressed concern that the USA Patriot Act compromises civil liberties, the version of

While the oil has stopped flowing from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s important to note that the cap is a temporary fix. Relief wells are still

The Florida Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on one of Rick Scott’s first and most substantial acts as governor, which drew a legal challenge earlier this year. # Rosalie Whiley, a blind woman seeking to reapply for food stamps, challenged Scott’s authority to suspend rulemaking by executive agencies, an effort intended to reign in out-of-control regulations, but that also ensared agencies’ efforts to do things like create a streamlined application for food stamps. (That specific rulemaking effort, Scott’s lawyers were quick to point out, has since been approved, and is again moving through the process.) # Scott froze rulemaking the day he took office, in his first executive order (.pdf), which also created the Office of Fiscal Accountability and Regulatory Reform (aka OFARR)

Mullen says the military should not be deployed without a complementary civilian effort.

Big news from Jeff Bader, the National Security Council director for Asia, reporting on President Obama’s meeting yesterday with Chinese President Hu Jintao

CARROLL — Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann , taking a rhetorical cue from one her political heroes, Ronald Reagan, elicited some of the strongest response from a Carroll audience Sunday when she asked, “Are you better off today than you were two years ago?” U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus appeared before voters in Carroll, but avoided all audience and local media questions.