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The execution of Manuel Valle is set for Aug. 2, under the first death warrant signed by Gov

The small government PAC, which has been blasting Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) for months over his compromises with Democrats, is officially going in for his

As Florida Democratic Senate candidates Rep. Kendrick Meek and billionaire businessman Jeff Greene slugged it out in their only statewide televised debate last

The No. 1 Story last night on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann was Late Night host David Letterman’s lambasting of Sen. John McCain, after the GOP

<p>There isn’t much that’s &quot;average&quot; about the voters who showed up at this week’s <a title="Take Back America"

But The Guardian’s Iran election page is auto-refreshing every minute to bring live updates. That’s definitely something I’m keeping open all day. Also, the

The New York Times’ Sunday lead editorial is devoted to how the new Obama administration can and should close down Guantanamo Bay shortly after Barack Obama

Gov. Rick Perry declined to come out against New York’s recent passage of marriage equality over the weekend, claiming it’s a policy states have the right

The trendy way to influence elections this cycle is through independent expenditure committees, and as I wrote yesterday, these committees are, in most

Though former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has yet to launch a formal presidential exploratory committee, despite his Newt Explore 2012 website, the

President Obama tapped Rajiv Shah, a 36-year old undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture and medical doctor with extensive experience in food security and public heath, to head the agency.

Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow at this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing testified that when he saw the so-called

Tuesday’s rallies drew only small crowds, but the demonstrators were hopeful that passage of health care reform would lead to an electoral and legal backlash.

GOP Senate candidate Mike McCalister is facing more questions about his military service, this time from a Vietnam veteran. # According to the St

Planned Parenthood celebrates the 95th anniversary of its founding this week amid a barrage of political attacks, ranging from a full-on congressional investigation to a proposed federal budget that would defund the chain of women’s clinics. Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, wrote a letter announcing that the organization was turning “95 years young” this week.

The Democratic and Republican leadership elections are finally upon us, and it seems that most of the drama and uncertainty has already worked itself out well

In a startling new Pew survey, more than half of households say that within the past year a member of the household has been out of work -- up 15 percentage

Say hi to Adm. James Stavridis, whom Defense Secretary Bob Gates just tapped to become NATO commander (or, for those who prefer formality, Supreme Allied

On Friday, the news broke that hackers had obtained and released thousands of email exchanges between climate scientists at England’s University of East Anglia.

MarketWatch had some additional thoughts on Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s $300 billion plan to have the government buy up mortgages. People