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Only about 100 or so oil spill claims had been denied as of the end of September. Given recent comments by oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg about

You know something’s fundamentally changed when The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn -- a former Bush speechwriter, now chief editorial writer for the paper

In April, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill that makes it illegal for state colleges to fund medical residency programs that offer abortion training with

Despite general belief that the Protect Life Act -- which would bar tax-subsidized health-care plans from covering abortion services under the Affordable

First high-res satellite photos show extent of earthquake damage in Port-au-Prince. Hannity has some spelling issues. Dean Baker calls big bankers on

So far it looks like shareholders, employees and, of course, taxpayers are the big losers in the unprecedented Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac government bailout

Remember many things, but especially the Marines fighting in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Here’s a progress report emailed out at 4 p.m. Friday local time/9

A beef with McChrystal may have led Eikenberry to leak his own cables. Are Vitter’s ties to the formaldehyde industry behind his block of an Obama EPA

I don’t know if I believe this, but The Guardian is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama might put out feelers for direct U.S. talks with Hamas. The

A group of state legislators from across the country is planning to work together to create legislation to remove automatic birthright citizenship for children

Just up on her Facebook page, this critique of the Obama administration’s approach to dealing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: The Obama

If you’ve been curious about U.S. Senate candidate and former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert’s take on the Occupy Wall Street movement, well, wonder no more. Friday

Homegrown terrorists are playing a more important role in leading and planning terrorist operations. Gov. Schwarzenegger is in Alaska, but can’t see

Obama’s plans for reforming No Child Left Behind may have to wait. Democratic senators are choosing not to lobby House members on health care. Some

On the campaign trail, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin likes to mock Sen. Biden’s comment that paying higher taxes is patriotic. (Actually, what Biden said is paying

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (left) (Pic by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Dawn C.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Following a lunchtime recess, Navy Capt. John Murphy asked Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge overseeing Omar Khadr’s military

Jeff Greene sues two Florida papers for costing him his Senate bid. McCain once joked that the Secret Service should shoot out Palin’s tires. ...and

Adam Serwer, fresh from a trip to Guantanamo Bay to see a proceeding in an Obama-era military commission, draws some conclusions about the administration’s

Update: The Department of Health and Human Services sent a response after this story was originally posted. The department’s comment has been

Life Always’ latest anti-abortion billboards -- called by some opponents racist for their messages targeted at the African-American communities -- are still

By now, we all know that the federal government is pretty much impotent in the face of the seafloor gusher that’s been spewing unknowable amounts of oil into

In what has become a consistent thread in Sen. John McCain’s quest for the White House, a few more of Sen. Barack Obama’s celebrity friends -- at least that’s