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Despite petitions from women’s rights groups and emails from customers, department store chain Dillard’s is proceeding with sponsoring a second fundraiser with

Though the contentious 2011 budget process is over and Planned Parenthood will continue receiving federal support, the fight against the organization continues,

The Federal Open Market Committee, the guiding policy committee of the Federal Reserve, is gaining increasing attention from lawmakers and politicians on both

After seven long days of partisan haggling, the Senate Finance Committee early Friday morning wrapped up its debate on the panel’s sweeping health reform

If Obama needs to pick up some begrudging slack, here are some suggestions.

Via Marc Lynch’s Twitter feed, Lee Hamilton -- 9/11 Commissioner, Iraq Study Grouper, former Indiana Congressman, all-around wise man -- asks some very

State Department spokesman Robert Wood got asked today whether the Obama administration fears for the viability of the Pakistani government. Enjoy: QUESTION:

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman interviews an engineering student in Tehran on recent developments in the country.

More on Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.). While he might be the darling of Sarah Palin and Tea Party groups in today’s Kansas GOP Senate primary, they can’t be

Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have introduced an energy tax incentives bill that they are urging the Senate to pass before the end of

The thought of Vice President Dick Cheney in a form-fitting bat costume might be too much for most people to bear. But the concepts of security and danger

Looks like he was for him before he was against him. Billionaire Jeff Greene, who will reportedly announce his Democratic candidacy for Florida U.S. Senate

For some reason MSNBC just had Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) on to talk about the fringe House Republican demands for Homeland Security Secretary Janet

Here’s a little fuel to the rumors that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is looking at a return to politics, including a possible 2012 run for president. The

The 15 banking CEOs who met with President Obama today in Washington head financial institutions that spent at least $45 million on lobbying in 2008, and gave

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that South Florida Congressman Alcee Hastings faces an ethics investigation stemming from sexual harassment allegations: # It began at least a month ago after Judicial Watch, a conservative group, filed a lawsuit as the legal counsel for Winsome Packer, a staffer on a commission Mr.

I wrote last week about how some members of the Get Afghanistan Right coalition were working to support a blogger to write frequent critiques of the Afghanistan