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Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration has ignored its own internal regulation and stopped requiring manufacturers of medical devices – such as

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that the department would extend temporary immigration protections for an additional eighteen months for Haitians currently residing in the United States. # In a press release Napolitano announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti beneficiaries effective July 23, 2011 and for an additional 18 months.

TPM reports that city records from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, indicate that there is more to the story of her pay cut. On the

In what appears to be an attempt to gin up an October Surprise, the McCain campaign teamed up with the American Conservative Union today to make a campaign

Hoping to nullify the Supreme Court’s recent decision freeing corporations to spend infinitely on federal elections, Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and John

This morning, Kevin Drum flagged the UCLA Anderson Forecast, a quarterly release on national and California economic conditions. Ed Leamer, the head of the

It might be this, from Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), on why he’s still wavering on the Senate race that he ruled out last year. o do that, I’d have to give up the

Here’s a portion of a press release issued by Said Jawad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Washington, to mark the recent rise in U.S. military fatalities in his

David Rivkin and Lee Casey are an op-ed-writing team of former GOP legal officials who defend practically every terrorism-related policy pushed by the Bush

Swift Communications newspapers in Colorado will soon ask online readers to pay for access to content. The Carson City, Nevada-based company, which owns a slew of publications in Colorado and is sometimes mocked for its “ McMountain News ” mass-production publishing style, has already started erecting paywalls at publications elsewhere and will likely begin charging customers here next year

First appeared December 12, 2008 As I wrote on Wednesday, there are already several lawsuits from torture victims pending against the United States, and

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Nov. 4, 2009. During the summer, when swine flu

Via Connie Brimmer, a conservative blogger/artist, comes a painting titled Hannah Giles Carving a Giant Acorn. It’s a tribute to the 20-year-old woman who

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has distributed a press release stating, if circuitously, that Republicans will agree to start formal debate on

America’s “nuclear power renaissance” – and a concurrent Colorado uranium mining revival — could cool considerably in the wake of a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s northeast coast that caused two partial meltdowns at two nuclear reactors and serious problems at two more plants. The growing disaster plaguing four of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors – the third most in the world behind only the United States (104) and France (58) – has sparked unpleasant memories of the Chernobyl meltdown in the Ukraine in 1986 and the Three Mile Island incident in Pennsylvania in 1979.

Twenty-one Democrats joined all but one Republican in a vote to repeal the sweeping health care law’s individual mandate Tuesday evening. The motion failed

A recent study of sexually-active women in California finds that socioeconomic status does not fully explain why certain groups of women in the Golden State use

Tory Newmeyer confirms that Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) will resign from Congress this afternoon, ending any drama over whether he would stick around to help block

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder says Carol Browner, President Obama’s climate and energy policy adviser, is a plausible candidate to become White House chief of