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Marc Ambinder reports Sen. John McCain spoke with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to congratulate her on making it to the top of President-elect Barack Obama’s

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on March 30, 2009. Is this really the talking point

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson will announce his candidacy for president next week in New Hampshire. Johnson mentioned a “major announcement in New Hampshire” in a press release Tuesday.

Shock, surprise! Exxon Mobil Corp. reported record-breaking quarterly profits today. The oil company earned $14.83 billion in its fiscal third quarter, more

The Minnesota Senate recount keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. After the Al Franken campaign claimed its first lead of the recount yesterday, it

Danger Room’s Nathan Hodge is off the Haitian coast aboard the USS Bataan, which he reports has become a new hub of Haiti operations now that the immediate

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday put his weight behind the congressional push to extend by six months the $8,000 tax credit to first-time

Not every environmental group is encouraged by the efforts to come to a consensus with the electric industry on a utility-only cap on emissions. One

According to the speaker of Florida’s state House, Jeb Bush is passing on a 2010 Senate run. He said it just wasn’t the right timing, Rubio said, recounting

Rather than seek an appropriate technological solution, managers of a decommissioned uranium processing mill near Cañon City want the state to let them stop testing a radioactive holding pond because wooden pallets used to cross the pond are sinking into the toxic mud.

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. Most of the health care headlines today center on the reactions to President Obama’s speech to

On Tuesday, America’s poverty rate jumped from 13.2 percent to 15.8 percent -- or from 39.8 million to 47.4 million of 308 million Americans -- as the

The latest news from the negotiations between President Barack Obama and federal lawmakers over the federal debt limit is hardly encouraging, and while there’s still time , legislation offered by one Central Florida lawmaker offers a contingency plan for a worst-case scenario. # A bill by freshman Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Orlando, the “Prioritize Spending Act of 2011,” would prioritize federal spending with the revenue the government has coming in.

There were lots of signals from Defense Secretary Bob Gates at his press conference today. I didn’t want to let my imagination run away with me, but his body

In an effort to galvanize support for his signature piece of legislation, a public employee union-busting bill commonly known as Senate Bill 5, Ohio Gov. John

<p>Sen. Barack Obama&rsquo;s campaign seemed to have little control over the sudden, uncomfortable arrival of race as a top issue in the presidential

This nugget from Jake Sherman and Patrick O’Connor’s preview of the House GOP retreat deserves more attention. Boehner has told his rank and file to embrace

Ed Brayton at ScienceBlogs (and also of our sister site, The Michigan Messenger) has a thorough analysis of the Obama administration’s new state secrets policy,

Amid the debate over Sotomayor’s supposedly activist move joining the per curiam opinion in the reverse discrimination case of Ricci v. DeStefano, there’s