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No, not Larry Korb. I’m not being cute here. I mean Ken Adelman, the former chair of the Reagan-era Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the guy who said

Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) rejected the Sierra Club’s endorsement today in his campaign for the Senate in Florida, citing frustration that the environmental

Immigrants rights groups have made a major push for the DREAM Act, with rallies around the country and scores of calls to senators. Now that a Republican

An unofficial measure of what’s going on with the economy is the Latte Index, or trends in discretionary spending when it comes to Starbucks. When people cut

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Yesterday, the House reconvened to pass and President Obama signed into law a $26.1 billion package granting aid to state governments -- $16.1 billion for

While America’s older workers are taking longer and longer to find work, spending, on average, 35 weeks between jobs, America’s youngest working generation is

So which reporters seeking to embed with the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan have been profiled by the Rendon Group? Rendon, the CIA-linked communications

Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) is now having own Macaca YouTube moment. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and others wonder what Apple is hiding. Contrary to

PART 1: A Coast Guard upgrade project, Deepwater, reveals a troubled military contracting system.

Before Mississippians have a chance vote on the criminalization of abortion in the 2011 general election (and before the Mississippi Supreme Court rules whether

The Supreme Court seal (Pic by Hayfordoleary, via WIkimedia Commons ) The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the legal challenge to Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement law S.B. 1070 is taking center stage in the immigration debate, as supporters and opponents of the measure call on the court to rule in their favor.

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg is set to release the methodology for calculating oil spill claims payments. According to The New York Times , his estimates predict the gulf region will recover by late next year: # Based on the work of environmental scientists, economists and other experts, the report acknowledges that “prediction is not an exact science” but estimates that the gulf should recover by the end of 2012.

An Iowa manufacturing plant recently highlighted by President Obama will take advantage of a state economic development package to launch a $300 million expansion of its rolled aluminum product offerings, creating an estimated 150 permanent jobs. Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of primary and fabricated aluminum, will expand it’s rolled products plant in Bettendorf, known as Alcoa Davenport Works, to coincide with supply demands from the automotive market

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling that the requirement in the federal health care reform law that individuals buy health insurance or face penalties is unconstitutional. It also upheld the lower court’s rejection of an argument by Florida and 25 other states that the law’s expansion of Medicaid is “coercive” to the states. # Today’s ruling holds that the rest of the law can be allowed to stand; the lower court held that the mandate was so integral that the rest of the law should be struck down.

During the Colorado legislative session just passed and during the midterm elections last year, state Republicans embraced Arizona-style anti-illegal immigration policy proposals and harsh rhetoric that alienated Coloradans , including non-white Republican politicians and supporters and, perhaps most dramatically , Latino Republicans. Analysts called that kind of politics a sort of longterm suicide mission given the shifting demographics of the state

Just minutes ago, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moved for the Senate to start debate on the financial regulatory reform bill on Monday, saying, We’re going to move

A group of 20 prominent scientists have sent a letter to President Obama urging him to not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Here’s the full text of the letter: The Honorable Barack Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C

Here’s a statement the White House released from Phil Mudd, a highly respected former CIA analyst, FBI national-security chief and most recently the

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, a former chief prosecutor of the military commissions-turned-critic, has an opinion piece in the

Wind industry officials are working overtime to counter a story published yesterday by American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop that finds many of