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In the wake of his conviction in U.S. District Court Thursday, Colorado Ethics Watch is calling on Adams County Sheriff Doug Darr to resign.

Last year, the State Department couldn’t fill positions in Iraq, so it threatened to conscript diplomats if it didn’t find volunteers. But people stepped up and

Minnesota GOP Sen. Norm Coleman -- who’s busy juggling a contentious election recount and allegations that a wealthy supporter tried to funnel him $100,000 in

The influential Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the Obama administration, is now calling on President Obama to push back the closing of

Clinton, in her own words. Let’s do this liveblog-style. On Sen. John Kerry: I join in offering my congratulations... You have traveled quite a distance

I know, I know: It’s a time of national service today, and of growing excitement about Tuesday’s historic events. But The Consumerist can’t help noting that

Tea Party-supported candidate Rand Paul (R) and state Attorney General Jack Conway captured the major party nominations for retiring Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.)

Dem turnout in 2010 could suffer if the public option dies. The Obama administration may be exaggerating the domestic threat of al-Qaeda terrorism. Things

Kevin DeAnna writes about the new Temple University course on Mayor Lou Barletta’s tenure in Hazelton -- a class called, evocatively, War in Hazelton. Week

An ultrasound machine (Pic by redjar, via Flickr) The anti-abortion groups Jubilee Campaign’s Law of Life Project (LOLP) and the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) have filed a motion to intervene in the injunction of a North Carolina law that would have forced abortion providers to show women an ultrasound and describe it to them before providing an abortion. Last month, U.S

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With President Obama set to say goodbye to his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in less than an hour’s time, the media is full of reports and profiles concerning his

A statement just released by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), whose Senate Armed Services Committee discovered widespread fraud in Blackwater’s previous Afghanistan

In response to Lawrence Lessig’s article on Citizens United, the Center for Competitive Politics’s Allison Hayward has published a piece in the Boston Review.

It sounded like a good idea. In this interactive age, the Department of Homeland Security wanted to take advantage of an easy way to get public feedback on its

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for California governor, is facing accusations that she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper and

With roughly an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, federal lawmakers and President Barack Obama struck a deal to avoid a shutdown of the federal government — at least for this week.

The House on Friday approved legislation to extend the filing deadline for emergency unemployment benefits through November. It does not create new

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