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According to Forbes magazine , Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is following the lead of Michigan Gov

The Senate will vote Monday evening on legislation extending unemployment benefits -- a procedural vote that could clear the way for final passage as early as

Merck and Co., Inc. engaged in a series of deceitful actions that led to an underestimation of deaths caused by its blockbuster drug Vioxx during

The Los Angeles Times reported today that a California agency is set to approve renewable energy standard that is significantly more stringent than the one

In the face of widespread suspicion that health care reform is stalled indefinitely, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters this afternoon that

That’s what Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is saying now on the Senate floor. Word is that chamber leaders are nearing an agreement to stage the final vote within

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, confirmed earlier this month after a bruising battle with Republicans, has cast her first vote on the court in a case

Maggie Gallagher Both sides of the debate over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage met at the University of St.

Sean Duffy, the leading Republican candidate challenging Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), will report a fundraising total of $140,000, with $120,000 cash on hand, for

The New York Times gives high-profile treatment today to efforts in Flint, Mich. to deal with a deluge of abandoned and vacant properties by literally shrinking

Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is more responsible for the current state of the economy, only 18

State Democrats introduced legislation Monday aimed at restoring six weeks worth of unemployment insurance cut by the GOP-dominated legislature earlier this year. The legislation was introduced in the House by Rep

It appears that cap-and-trade legislation is turning out to be popular in the states of some conservative Democrats, according to a new poll that Democratic

Proponents of a renewable energy standard, which would require that a certain percentage of the country’s electricity be produced from sources like wind and

The 10-member commission appointed by Congress to investigate the causes of the nation’s financial meltdown holds its first meeting this morning. But with

Wes Pruden of The Washington Times, a regular weekly contestant for the dual prizes of most gleefully offensive conservative column and most likely to be

Via Rachel Weiner, Joe McGinniss discovers that Sarah Palin is, instead of riding her decked-out book tour bus, cosseted in the luxury of a Gulfstream II

Prosecutors today unexpectedly canceled the first court hearing scheduled for the underpants bomber -- the Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a

Until his pastor’s most incendiary sound bites re-circulated on the web, Sen. Barack Obama had managed to be the “post-racial,” “post-partisan”

The Obama administration unveiled the details of its new housing rescue plan today, and Bloomberg has some of the specifics: The initiative, first announced on

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider legislation designed to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system by creating a commission to