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Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s (R) announcement Wednesday that she would not run in West Virginia’s special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D)

Even though there’s a new administration in Washington promising broad ethics reforms, it looks like the old way of doing things may still be alive and well in

Roughly two-thirds of unlicensed gun show dealers sold weapons to undercover investigators even after those investigators told dealers that they probably

On Sunday, WikiLeaks released more than 700 classified military documents on Guantánamo Bay prisoners, part of a trove of classified information it received

Gov. Rick Perry declined to come out against New York’s recent passage of marriage equality over the weekend, claiming it’s a policy states have the right

The Minnesota Independent has the details: Elwyn Tinklenberg is terminating his campaign for Congress. The former Blaine mayor, who lost to U.S. Rep. Michele

On the week of the one-year anniversary of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration bill -- which has provoked copycats throughout the country -- Republican

Here’s a point that might have gotten lost in the shuffle yesterday during coverage of the marathon Afghanistan testimony from Secretaries Clinton and Gates and

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This is one of the more surprising polls I’ve seen recently: Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of the vice president, is leading Rep. Mike Castle

Though originally projected to go live at the end of September, a statewide prescription drug monitoring program will now be implemented on Oct.

At a press conference in Chicago this morning, President-elect Barack Obama responded to attacks from gay-rights advocates who say they his selection of Pastor

Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow at this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing testified that when he saw the so-called

Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park (Pic via Facebook) Think Progress is reporting that just months after playing a lead role in the temporary shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Rep

This is a change in personnel, President Obama said, announcing Gen. David Petraeus’ takeover of the Afghanistan war, but not a change in policy. Yes and no.

Tuesday’s rallies drew only small crowds, but the demonstrators were hopeful that passage of health care reform would lead to an electoral and legal backlash.

GOP Senate candidate Mike McCalister is facing more questions about his military service, this time from a Vietnam veteran. # According to the St

Here’s a sterling example of how the fringe conservative Website WorldNetDaily, which has published more than 200 articles about Obama birth conspiracy

Planned Parenthood celebrates the 95th anniversary of its founding this week amid a barrage of political attacks, ranging from a full-on congressional investigation to a proposed federal budget that would defund the chain of women’s clinics. Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, wrote a letter announcing that the organization was turning “95 years young” this week.