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The Associated Press reported late Thursday that President-elect Barack Obama is expected to officially offer the post of secretary of state to his former

In the closing days of the campaign, the question I’m asked most frequently is: When did Sen. John McCain’s effort begin to unravel? My answer: What date did

As the dust settles following the Pennsylvania primary, the candidates and the media have turned to what comes next. It feels like it was years ago that

You thought the Denver mayor’s race was maybe a little boring, that maybe the candidates were fairly interchangeable, give or take gender and skin color. Well, now that we are down to two, the gloves seem to be coming off. Friday, Chris Romer sent out a press release questioning Michael Hancock’s bonafides on abortion rights.

The turnout to today’s Tea Party was indisputably high -- likely in the hundreds tens of thousands (though organizers claimed it reached 1.5 million). But

Philadelphia city officials are taking matters into their own hands with a foreclosure moratorium, housingwire.com says. Expect to see more of this as cities

Pontiac Emergency Manager Michael Stampfler has asked the state Treasury Dept. to approve plans to void the city’s contract with the police dispatchers union.

Even if he ultimately opposes health reform legislation, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) says he would probably vote to bring the bill to the floor, reports The

The conference committee to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the financial regulatory reform bill is just minutes away from starting. Those who want

President Obama has taken a good deal of heat from the business community and other special interest groups for his strict ban on lobbyists attending

Enough with DADT already: Duncan Hunter wants to open a hermaphrodites-in-the-military debate. Obama’s jab at Vegas is too much for Ensign and Reid. One

Public Policy Polling surveyed Iowa voters on potential Republican 2012 presidential candidates and found former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with a twelve-point

No one likes to lose. But losing represents a chance to start again, to build something out of lessons learned and mistakes made. It provides the opportunity for new people to begin to mold the Republican Party in ways that senior leadership had resisted.

Here are more photos (see round one here) from the Code Red rally against health care reform that shook the upper Senate Park this afternoon.

Following news that world leaders had reached a climate deal, President Obama just held a press conference in Copenhagen, calling the agreement an important

We wrote recently that Democrats could have a tough time passing their big-ticket priorities next year because some freshman members -- many of whom represent

The Washington Post: Army investigators at Arlington National Cemetery have found more than 100 unmarked graves, scores of grave sites with headstones that are

Stacy McCain reports on a new Zogby poll that, according to John Zogby, puts the president’s approval rating at about 50-50. This has got to scare Democrats