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An eastern Iowa man will run for House District 68, which includes Marion and the surrounding areas, he announced today. Daniel Lundby, 35, son of the late state Sen. Mary Lundby , will run as a Democrat, though he has previously identified as a Republican

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded

Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. (More data below.) Last week,

As expected, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are circulating a new draft of their climate change proposal among industry and

I don’t believe it either, but, via Bill Roggio, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says Pakistani intelligence believe it to be so but don’t have any, like,

Well, he doesn’t get to go free, but Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri -- the last remaining enemy combatant who was picked up and held for the past six years without

With Congress back in session after the July 4 holiday, the legislative schedule in the Senate is extremely cramped. There’s the financial regulatory reform

While the government’s use of private security contractors has garnered no end of criticism, the highest-profile blunders and abuses have come from companies that work not for the Pentagon, but for the State Department.

In response to guidance from the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Macomb County Health Department has changed the client acknowledgment forms they use — but some advocates say they haven’t gone far enough yet. Dr

On the heels of the Mullah Baradar arrest, Sami Yousafzai and Mark Hosenball report that the Taliban’s shadow governor in Kunduz, Mullah Abdul Salam, has been

The Washington Post reported this afternoon that Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), chairman of the investigative subcommittee tasked with substantiating the claims of

Over the weekend, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley announced his resignation from his position via a statement available on the State Department website.

With the confirmation of Judge Albert Diaz on Dec. 18 to the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, President Obama’s influence on the court seems firmly in

A group of powerful Senate Democrats is urging leadership today to repeal the federal anti-trust exemption that insurance companies have enjoyed for more than

Former Rep. Heather Wilson holds a commanding early lead in the Republican Senate primary, according to a Republican pollster

More important than anything Director of National Intelligence-nominee Dennis Blair and CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta said at their rollout this morning

For many people, one of the confounding things about the financial crisis has been trying to grasp exactly what happened on Wall Street -- and how things could

I hate to seem like a grinch. It’s certainly good news that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are halting foreclosures for the holiday season. No one wants to see

Spencer Ackerman passes along a photo of Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), backstage at Netroots Nation in Pittsburgh, calling Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to talk