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Conservative political strategist Floyd Brown, who gained a sort of immortality during the 1988 presidential campaign for an ad attacking Democratic candidate

Two 14-year old girls committed suicide last week in Marshall, Minn., and the evidence suggests they’d been bullied. Relatives of Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz told Meredith Viera of the TODAY Show that the girls may have been more than just friends

Over the last couple of weeks, The Iowa Independent’s team has been tracking the state’s congressional delegation as they hold town hall meetings on health care

During her unsuccessful campaign to replace Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), four-term Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said repeatedly that she would resign from

Immigration and Customs Enforcement data received through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that Secure Communities , a federal immigration enforcement program, detains and deports people who are not criminals. In a press release issued last week, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network indicates that: “Nationally, 1 in 4 people deported under S-Comm haven’t been convicted of any crime. That ratio jumps to over 50% in Palm Beach, in Miami, and in multiple examples across the country” xplained Bridget Kessler of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

More than a dozen members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter (PDF) to President Obama and to the Inspector General of the U.S

The prime minister of the Caribbean vacation nation Antigua & Barbuda (official name!) has renamed his country’s highest mountain Mount Obama. Seriously. W.

Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reports from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain. Here she covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech today in Toledo, Ohio.

For many in public-policy organizations, academia and the media, the current mortgage and credit crisis suggests the impending collapse of the American

In a highly unusual case, a jury will decide — for the time being, at least — whether anti-Muslim Florida Pastor Terry Jones will be allowed to hold a protest outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn on Friday evening. State Judge Mark Somers gave Jones the option of paying a $100,000 “peace bond” or face a jury to decide whether he can hold the protest without paying the bond.

Asked by Ellen Tauscher, a California Democrat, what he would say to a new president who asked for a withdrawal plan within 60 days of taking office, Petraeus