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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

The Hill reports today that liberal groups are stepping up their pressure on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to call a vote on Dawn Johnsen,

The nonprofit Checks and Balances Project today released an analysis of the skyrocketing profits of the nation’s top five oil and gas companies in the wake of near-record gas prices and compared those profits to lobbying expenditures and political contributions in 2010.

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

I’ll have a broader piece up soon about John Brennan’s speech about counterterrorism, which in many ways represented a stark departure from several key tenets

Here is an excerpt from my interview with Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process whereby natural gas is

At a moment when the country needs our help, it would be a great mistake for the House GOP to turn inward and simply become the party of “no.” - Rep. Eric

If any more proof was needed that CPAC organizers aren’t sweating the stories and photos about fringe conservatives making their way around the conference,

Just as the National Security Strategy places an international order based on binding global norms at the center of President Obama’s foreign policy, a United

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 .

From a letter just sent to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Director of National

Arizona faces seven legal challenges to its SB immigration law -- which is part of why the state needs the $3.6 million in donations it has pulled in to defend

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) said today that he won’t validate a winner in the long-running Senate standoff between former Sen. Norm Coleman (R) and Al

The Pollster.com average of President Obama’s approval rating is 60 percent, with only 33 percent of voters disapproving. Scott Rasmussen’s polls are way out of

As the NY-23 absentee ballot count moves into districts that were won by Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.), his lead is growing over Conservative Party challenger Doug

As mentioned yesterday, Colin Powell’s former State Department chief of staff, ret. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, posted at The Washington Note that an

Chairman of the House Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union Tuesday, according to Mike Allen

With Republicans opposing the legislation en masse (and some Democrats raising questions too), prospects are dimming for passage of Senate Majority Leader Harry