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The Obama Administration has cracked down on anti-abortion extremists who have obstructed access to abortion clinics in the past two years.

Mark Halperin is really pushing Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) comment that he wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the

National Review is promoting a new, subtle-as-a-brick satire by Victor Davis Hanson titled President Palin, a 1000-word exercise in imagining how Alaska Gov.

A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled today that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the law,

Republican House candidates, especially challengers seeking to portray themselves as outsiders to Washington politics, are almost universally running on a

A new NBC poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the Obama administration’s decision not to release the photos of Osama bin

President Obama called on Wall Street today to stop fighting financial regulation and to instead embrace reform, Bloomberg reported. Speaking at Federal Hall in

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) just released a formal announcement confirming our report Monday that his Senate Judiciary subcommittee would hear testimony on

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the governor’s supporters.

Tell your children to get a degree in advertising -- political advertising, to be exact. Despite the economic downturn, and despite the fact that we’re not in a

In what likely seems like a paradoxical result, the latest jobs report from the Department of Labor shows that the economy added 244,000 jobs in April but the unemployment rate still jumped from 8.8 percent to 9 percent.

Fed up by months of foot dragging on the part of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), a subcommittee of the House ethics panel is preparing to go public on Thursday

Jeff Stein reports: As we reported last night, DHS intelligence chiefs were expected to take some heat Wednesday morning at a House Homeland Security

Leaders of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and the chairman of the Republican National Committee used combative language to describe the GOP’s bid to defeat President Obama and put in place further restrictions on abortion and marriage during a social conservative event in Iowa over the weekend.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) reasserted his claim last night that Al Qaeda may be sending women to the U.S. to birth a contingent of future terrorists

A new poll from EPIC-MRA has found that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, holds a slight lead over President Barack Obama in the state in next year’s presidential election

According to a recent report by NewsOne, an African-American news organization, a set of anti-abortion Oakland billboard will remain up, despite stirring controversy.

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit is blaming his company’s considerable troubles on moves by previous management to dive into real estate. In a particularly generous

With just 10 days to go before the deadline for the supercommittee to make a deal, news outlets are reporting more reasons to worry that the talks will fall

Due to some last minute GOP disagreements and disappointments that culminated in a chaotic legislative overtime , the Florida Senate did not pass all the bills on the calendar for the last day of this legislative session. Among the bills that slipped through the cracks: an abortion-restricting bill sponsored by Sen.

PG&E -- the owner of the natural gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno, Calif., last week, killing at least four people and destroying dozens of homes --

The U.S. Department of Justice stepped up its criticism of Texas’ redistricting plans in court filings late Tuesday night, writing there’s “ample