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Lawmakers have only hinted at reforms to the nation’s mine safety laws in the wake of April’s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch in West Virginia. But

Tom Ricks gets an interview with Gen. David Petraeus that mostly featured Petraeus attempting to avoid making news. But this was funny: : You keep on saying

The Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived in Michigan with encampments in Lansing and Grand Rapids. Since Friday activists in Lansing have camped out in downtown Reutter Park despite a city ordinance that prohibits use of the park after 10 pm without written permission.

The National Journal’s survey of insiders from the energy industry and environmentalists predicts, unsurprisingly, that President Obama is all but certain to approve the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Despite intense lobbying from environmentalists and opposition from many in President Obama’s own party, virtually all National Journal Energy and Environment Insiders say that Obama’s State Department will approve a controversial 1,700-mile pipeline project to bring carbon-heavy tar-sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Environmental groups have been working in Congress and the courts to delay or block a decision, citing environmental concerns and, more recently, questions about the impartiality of some State Department officials.

The group behind the National Tea Party Convention fires off an e-mail to its members, beseeching them to start recall efforts of members who voted aye on

Well, if the Republican establishment didn’t have enough problems already with likely presidential nominee John McCain, enter a 40-year-old blond lobbyist named

Cherilyn Eagar, a long-shot candidate for U.S. Senate in Utah, tries to grab onto them with an announcement that she’ll have a historic meeting with the former

From The Michigan Messenger: Rep. Bart Stupak has reconsidered earlier legislation that would have given several acres of Coast Guard property in Cheboygan

The University of South Florida logo (Pic via cee.eng.usf.edu) The State University System of Florida’s Board of Governors will meet tomorrow at Florida Atlantic University to vote on USF Polytechnic’s request to split off from USF Main, and become an independent campus. In a letter sent to State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan, state Sen. Mike Fasano has asked that the board to not approve the campus at this time.

When President Obama traveled to Denmark to try to seal the deal to host the 2016 Olympics in Chicago, his trip was decried by conservatives and his failure to

Here’s some video from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) anti-health care reform tea party on Capitol Hill today. Bachmann distributed copies of the health care

IOWA CITY — At a table filled with pamphlets, two younger demonstrators explained their reasons for wanting to occupy an Iowa City park to a middle-aged man. Snippets of the conversation mixed with another demonstrator’s guitar playing and singing. “The bailout wasn’t just one party or the other … it was both

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta gave an odd answer when asked about future long-term detentions by Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.). He didn’t really go so far

Natural Resources Defense Council International Climate Policy Director Jake Schmidt told reporters on a conference call today that the United States needs to

Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) announced Thursday that the Michigan Senate Judiciary would review statute of limitations provisions in Michigan law with an eye towards increasing them. The announcement came after Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III announced a suspect in the 2000 killing of 24-year-old Brandon D’Annunzio could not be charged because of the statute of limitations on manslaughter, reports the State News.

Though members of his campaign quit in droves Thursday, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich pledged to keep his presidential bid alive in an address to the Republican Jewish Coalition Sunday night in Los Angeles. Gingrich spoke about foreign policy, specifically about Israel

After nearly a year of evasions, Karl Rove has finally-- at least in a written reply to a GOP congressman-- categorically denied involvement in the

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware GOP primary, Richard Pildes takes up two questions: Do political primaries fuel polarization and

GQ has some striking new images from the campaign trail, snapped by photographer Jeff Riedel over the past nine months. A GQ staffer tells me they were going

The Transportation Security Administration’s new post-Northwest Airlines Flight 253 rules, per The Washington Post: All travelers flying to the United States

MUSKEGON, Mich. -- Here’s some late-breaking video of a press conference Sen. John McCain gave today under a tree in Grand Haven, Mich., on the bank of the