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State Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad is having surgery for a brain tumor on Wednesday, he wrote on his Facebook page Monday evening

Former New York Gov. George Pataki issued a statement Friday afternoon indicating that he would concentrate on his nonprofit, No American Debt, instead of launching a 2012 bid for the White House.

The $106 billion emergency spending bill -- primarily targeting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- also included $10.4 billion in foreign aid, nearly $8

As the U.S. State Dept. considers a proposal to build a nearly 2,000-mile long pipeline to transport Canadian tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast, key

Republicans hope to hold out on health care until the fall, staving off a public plan.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is expected to release today more details of the energy bill he will bring to the floor before the August recess. But

In his first interview since being appointed to lead the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, Herschel Vinyard spoke with The Florida Current about some of Florida’s more controversial proposals, including a stricter set of water pollution standards and a plan that would privatize portions of some Florida state parks.

A new anti-abortion rights billboard campaign set to appear in Los Angeles soon is targeting Latinas. The billboard says in both English and Spanish that “the most dangerous place for a Latino is in the womb.” # The group behind the billboard is the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles

Echoing the recent message from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters today that the middle of an employment

A Rasmussen poll released today shows that in theory, at least, voters should support the DREAM Act: Most voters in the poll said children brought to the U.S.

I wrote last year about the strategy that had brought some online success to the Washington Examiner: editor Mark Tapscott’s aggressive hiring of conservative

Another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The New York Times reports that the rig is just east of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded in

Blogger Lowell Feld notices that Michael Schwartz -- the longtime conservative activist-turned-Hill staffer whom I heard wax poetic about the gay-making powers

If Howard Dean were still the head of the Democratic National Committee, he would be “quietly rooting” for a government shutdown, he said while speaking on

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that would make the state’s immigration

The foreclosure crisis has taken a turn in California’s wealthy Marin County, according to Miriam Alex-Lute at Rooflines. Marin residents waged a legal fight a

It’s really the last sentence of the two-paragraph joint statement emerging from national security adviser Jim Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta’s visit to

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami (Pic via Facebook) Add the Christian Family Coalition to the list of organizations attacking Miami GOP Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for her decision to support the Respect for Marriage Act. In a release, the Christian Family Coalition writes that “Florida Rep.

Roll Call breaks the story: The House ethics committee has drafted rules that for the first time would define gay married couples as “spouses” for the

I’ve cooled off on the birther movement after the forged Kenyan birth certificate debacle killed a lot of their enthusiasm. And one fringe benefit of the