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Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) penned an editorial for the Huffington Post Monday that urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create rules regulating

Anyone who has seen the seminal Schoolhouse Rock video How a Bill Becomes a Law likely thinks that, when a bill is signed into law, the government can begin

In a surprise move first reported by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper, former President Bill Clinton has secretly traveled to the North Korean capital of

Former Iowa Congressman and “The Love Boat” actor Fred Grandy is no longer serving as a radio host for Washington, D.C.,-based WMAL. Grandy and his wife, Catherine Mann-Grandy (known as “Mrs.

With unemployment still hovering in double digits and no real relief in sight, a group of 30 Senate Democrats today is urging party leaders to extend emergency

In a sign that the campaign season has truly started, Pres. Barack Obama’s campaign will open an office just outside the University of Minnesota campus Monday. The office will be located at 2722 University Avenue S.E., in Minneapolis

In August 2003, insurgents in Iraq, as part of a strategy of isolating the United States from the international community, bombed the United Nations compound in

ANCHORAGE -- You would think after being here a week I would have learned my lesson. Always vet. I didn’t check Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s claim in her

Via Mary Kane, a lyrical-visual illustration of the way of life that Sara Raak is fighting to preserve. (Video after the jump.)

Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided an engine factory in Bellingham, Washington and arrested 28 people for allegedly using

At the outset of the lame-duck session in Congress, The Washington Independent writers previewed what would happen. They predicted that a temporary extension of

In New Mexico, U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson declined today to issue a restraining order against GOP attorney Pat Rogers and private investigator Al

Conservative blogger and author Michelle Malkin rebuked the proposed federal DREAM Act during a talk at the University of Texas Tuesday evening. The

Governor Rick Snyder’s northern Michigan representative used his official e-mail to encourage local government officials to attend a fundraiser for the Grand Traverse Republican Party. The Traverse City Record Eagle reports that Greg Andrews, the governor’s Marquette-based representative, e-mailed local governments an invitation to the Governor’s Breakfast

Less than 48 hours after a Republican National Committee chairman candidates’ debate, during which contenders sang the praises of high tech and Twitter, the RNC

As the Wikileaks endless U.S. diplomatic document dump continues, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is battling back calls to resign for a UN espionage scheme , she’s leading the government’s defacto public relations campaign against Wikileaks and she’s battening down the hatches at the State Department . She is, in effect, in a war against the future the internet is promising to deliver as Wikileaks incrementally posts all of the 250,000 State Department cables it is alleged to possess.

Promoters of Canadian tar sands oil have launched a media campaign around the idea that by replacing Saudi oil with Canadian crude the U.S. can reduce payments to a government that oppresses women.

This afternoon, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, released the text of a letter he sent to mortgage servicers in Nevada, asking them to stop

Last week, radical anti-abortion right’s group Operation Rescue told Life News that the Texas Medical Board has continued to investigate the group’s claims that women’s health clinics providing abortions in Texas were violating the law .