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Lisa Lerer has the scoop: the athletics company will relinquish its spot on the board of directors at the Chamber of Commerce to protest the business lobby’s

The first floor of Florida’s Capitol was flooded with hundreds of protestors delivering pink slips to Gov. Rick Scott today. # They chanted: “Pink slip Rick!” “Fire Tricky Ricky!” “Where are the jobs?” # Capitol police closed the door to the governor’s office, saying the commotion was making it difficult for employees inside to concentrate

Interfaith Alliance of Iowa officials are disappointed in a lack of response from Gov. Terry Branstad concerning a desired discussion with state faith leaders concerning Texas Gov. Rick Perry ‘s day of prayer for the nation, which Branstad was invited to

This should sound familiar: Growing losses on Federal Housing Administration-backed mortgage loans are prompting fears the agency will be next in line for

Last week’s two drone strikes in Afghanistan rattled journalists. Didn’t Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, sharply

Officially, today marks Armenian Remembrance Day, set aside to honor the roughly 1.5 million Armenians killed at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915. But in

I’ve put in calls to the lawyers listed in official documents for the Committee for Truth in Politics, the organization running ads that portray financial

More than two centuries after America’s first military skirmish, gay and lesbian Americans can now serve openly in the military. President Obama today announced that the military was finally ready to implement a policy of openly welcoming people of all sexual oreintations. From The Washington Post: The Obama administration announced Friday that the military had made all necessary preparations to allow gays to serve openly in the armed forces, setting the stage for the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 60 days

A double-take-inducing item from Time’s report on Palin’s book: In addition to the trade edition, there will also be a special version for the Christian

Bethany Haley, a spokeswoman for the Republican congressman from Arizona, expands on the comments Franks made about President Obama’s citizenship at a town hall

The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved legislation empowering states to create public insurance plans that would negotiate rates on behalf of some of

On July 1, two Republican members of Missouri’s state legislature, and a representative of one other member, showed up at meetings called by Orly queen of the

Sen. Scott Dibble told Minnesota Public Radio that 100,000 emails sent to legislators by gay marriage supporters were clogging the servers and that the Senate IT department was set to delete them Monday morning. The emails, sent through the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT rights group, chided Republicans and a handful of DFLers who voted Saturday night to put a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot in 2012.

I’m still trying to figure out just what happened with Peter Galbraith, the possibly-former top American on the United Nations’ Afghanistan team who reportedly

In an interview with Pakistan’s Dawn-TV, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out some goals for her trip this week to Pakistan. I talk about

This New York Times piece about a shift in the NATO-Afghan plan to secure Kandahar from Taliban insurgents to a focus on civilian efforts is kind of

Another major corporation announced on Wednesday that it’s leaving the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity over concerns about the group’s efforts to

Mohammed Jawad has been ordered released after a court ruled his confession coerced, but the Department of Justice is now considering criminal charges based on new evidence.

The official readout from yesterday’s White House meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy was predictably uninformative. (When it come to decisions as

COLUMBUS – The Hell’s Angels of the 1960s infamously wore patches on their filthy vests embroidered with the inscription “1%-er,” a rebellious response

Fred Grimm at The Miami Herald has a great column today on how the oil spill has not been a driving factor in the midterm elections in Florida and around the