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Daniel Hay Lewis — who is not HIV-positive but was arrested by the Broward Sheriff’s Office and charged with the criminal transmission of HIV — should be out of custody Tuesday or Wednesday.

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about last weekend’s Values Voter Summit in Washington. In case you missed

Jimmy Carter is an avid hunter and gun owner who also happens to have once been president of the United States. The combination makes him well-placed in the

As tax season arrives, tougher rules to prevent tax preparers from peddling the wildly expensive loans languish in bureaucratic purgatory.

A super-PAC backing GOP presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry has begun buying ads in the Des Moines TV market, while Perry himself is continuing a media blitz in the Hawkeye State that began in late October. Make Us Great Again has bought $29,813 in airtime at KCCI in Des Moines, the local CBS affiliate and leading network TV station in the state.

It’s no mystery that the first item on the agenda when Congress returns to Washington next week will be an enormous spending package designed to create jobs and

As bank-owned foreclosed properties pile up across the country, from abandoned houses in hard-hit neighborhoods to empty big box retail stores in failed strip malls, the fight over holding someone responsible for the brick and mortar mess left behind by the mortgage crisis continues to heat up.

It’s one of the central tenets of the government’s strategy to get banks lending again: Wealthy private investors such as hedge funds are being encouraged, with

The well, as it were, was poisoned, one of Khadr’s lawyers said.

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expedite the State Department’s review of a massive and controversial oil pipeline

Pic by Smithers7, via Wikimedia Commons Responding to a new bill introduced in the Florida Legislature, spokespeople for the Florida Sheriffs Association say that jails are not neglecting the health and safety of incarcerated pregnant women. Isaiah Dennard, the jail services coordinator for the Florida Sheriffs Association, tells The Florida Independent that while regulations are not stipulated in the Florida Model Jail Standards, “specific jails each have their own policies protecting pregnant women.” “This has been done for years,” he says.

Southeast of San Antonio, plans are set for the construction of a new immigrant detention center -- one that Immigration and Customs Enforcement calls its first

I’m already hearing speculative groans that the CIA planted this story with Walter Pincus at The Washington Post today about how a military commander in 2003

The New Yorker published a blockbuster story this weekend detailing the many failures of the White House and the Senate to pass climate change

Prime Prep Academy’s most famous backer was there in person when the Texas State Board of Education voted to approve its charter application in September, and

At a news conference in Atlanta on Thursday (which I haven’t seen, but read accounts of), the Atlanta parents of 9-year-old Hannah Poling revealed that in

Here’s a textbook case for the DISCLOSE Act that’s up tomorrow for a vote. It centers on Americans for Job Security, a pro-business issue advocacy group, that

The Republican National Committee invited reporters to listen via conference call to new Chairman Michael Steele’s pep talk to House Republicans at their

Markos Moulitsas leaks (on Twitter) the results of the latest Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, which has Marco Rubio surging against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in