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In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory last night over Rep. Mike Castle (R) in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary, pundits are asking how in the world she did

An open letter from leaders of the groups Take Back Washington, Tea Party Nation, Downsize DC, GOProud, the D.C. Tea Party and other conservative groups calls

Even more affluent consumers are failing to pay their mortgages and credit card bills on time, the Financial Times reports. JPMorganChase chief executive

According to two people with intimate knowledge of the vaccine court, the compensation that will be paid to Hannah Poling is not the first paid by the court to

Probably the best possible conclusion to this week’s Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S. trilateral talks didn’t come from Washington. Last night, Pakistani Prime

It’s the Persian New Year, Nowruz, and President Obama recorded a video message to the Iranian people, intended to indicate respect for their cultural heritage.

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey, explaining how he can defeat Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.): Reagan carried this state twice. I don’t think this state has

The stock market dipped Monday following news that the S&P Index dropped its outlook on the United States’ credit rating from “stable” to

Dr. Robert S. Nelsen, president of the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, said that state budget cuts have dealt a particularly harsh blow to

Amid all the reactions to last night’s vice presidential debate, one thing seems clear: moderator Gwen Ifill went pretty easy on Sarah Palin. Ifill may have

UK newspaper The Guardian reports today that U.S. Central Command (Centcom), responsible for military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, has

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules today that require the oil and natural gas industry to report its greenhouse gas emissions. While the EPA

A new Gallup poll shows that lower- and middle-income Americans -- those making less than $90,000 a year -- have tightened their purse strings yet again, facing

BP CEO Robert Dudley declined an invitation to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on the oil spill, arguing

Our civilian commitment must continue even as our troops begin coming home, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations

While Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, legislation approved in March that curbs collective-bargaining rights for public employees, has been viewed largely as an attack

I’ve written a few times about lobbying efforts by supporters of the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow some undocumented students and military service members

A ballot question in Portland, Maine, that would have given legal immigrants the right to vote in city elections was voted down yesterday, with 52 percent

Terry Branstad Gov. Terry Branstad says the Republican candidate in a Nov

Sunday’s Washington Post has a good story detailing why the IRS, which has become the de facto agency for overseeing nonprofit groups’ independent expenditures

In June, when the Cash-for-Clunkers program -- which provided a government subsidy to people who traded in older low-mileage vehicles to buy new, supposedly

A five-year-old law restricts Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ability to share gun trafficking information.