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Confirming that there are already 2,100 open cases of mortgage fraud that the FBI is investigating, Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he plans to

Gallup’s annual, open-ended poll of the most admired Americans finds President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on top. Obama, whom 30

Stories like these, whenever they surface, are bad news for mainstream conservatives trying to use this energy in a less insane manner. A group that calls

While a cooperative agreement between the U.S. departments of agriculture and labor will provide some opportunities for rural workers, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said by phone Thursday that the effort won’t necessarily be a replacement for Iowa Workforce Development offices scheduled for closure

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way. Meaning: extend the traveling distance into which Mexican nationals can penetrate New Mexico, so that they can bring their cash to cities like Las Cruces, Lordsburg, and Deming. In response, Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman have proposed legislation — the Southern New Mexico Economic Development Act — asking for an extension of the 25-mile zone in which Mexican citizens can travel into New Mexico to shop, to conduct business, to visit family and friends to 75 miles.

<p>On three frigid days in early 1971, more than 100 Vietnam veterans gathered at a Detroit hotel to indict the most contentious American war of the 20th

Participants of the Occupy Wall Street-inspired Occupy Lansing will protest the downtown Lansing branch of Chase Bank Tuesday afternoon. In a press release sent out this morning, the protests were explained: “Chase Bank is one of the abusive lending institutions responsible for the sputtering economy,” said Ian Eberhart, one of the Oct

For all the criticisms Republicans are lobbing at the House Democrats’ plan to pass the Senate health care reform bill without actually passing the Senate

U.S. Rep. Steve King sat down with journalist Lorena Lopez of Iowa’s LA PRENSA Hispanic newspaper and provided an in-depth view on his immigration stance.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) expects a Senate vote next week on her proposed resolution to knock down the Federal Communications Commission’s rules

Tim Pawlenty’s courting of young voters with pop-culture references didn’t go unnoticed by one media icon: Stephen Colbert . At a gathering of Iowa college Republicans Saturday, Pawlenty said Barack Obama won’t keep the youth vote because “he duped the young people in this country.” Dropping references to Charlie Sheen, tiger blood and Lady Gaga, Pawlenty said young people have a “Bad Romance” with Obama. “I gotta say,” Colbert said, “it’s like Pawlenty ripped those references from the headlines, then stored them in a drawer for a couple of months, then re-ripped them from his drawer and put them in a speech

Consider this pseudo-controversy ended. Now that Defense Secretary Bob Gates has joined in with national security adviser Jim Jones to remind Gen. Stanley

Republican lawyer Barbara Comstock, a candidate for a swing House of Delegates seat in northern Virginia, is holding a fundraiser tomorrow in Washington with a

In one of the most rococo arrangements between patron and client-state imaginable, Afghan President Hamid Karzai might hire Zalmay Khalilzad -- who was an

The public comment period on the Bush administration’s proposed rules to overhaul the Endangered Species Act is still open -- but only until Sept. 15. With

Last month, Onyango Obama, half-brother to the President Obama’s father, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and then held by authorities due to an

Title XIV of H.R. 5136, the House bill authorizing next year’s Defense Department money, doesn’t look like it carries a major legacy item for President Obama.

Political pop quiz: What could be more important in this race than that combative, buzz-driving VP debate? Well, the new job loss figures are in. For the

While the McCain campaign’s attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to former Weatherman William Ayers will likely dominate today’s news cycle, the Wall

Yesterday afternoon, Kenneth Feinberg, who takes over as independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, briefed reporters on how the

This morning, a little, wonky blog post is creating a lot of controversy. Economics of Contempt writes: Here’s a scary thought: Let’s say the European