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Immigrant rights advocates can breathe a sign of relief: Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) announced this afternoon he will not leave Congress to run for Chicago

The Community Reinvestment Act has been a lightning rod for conservative criticism for years, but the scorn really took off when the housing market collapsed last year.

If the auto industry fails, the pain will be felt across the country and throughout the economy -- not just in the Motor City.

New York real estate mogul Donald Trump noted he was happy to be doing a telephone event with U.S.

Energy-saving measures are a win-win for the environment and for superintendents’ budgets.

On Tuesday, a speech by Hillary Clinton at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., took a turn for the ironic when, just as the Secretary of State

Man, Dan Benjamin, the State Department’s counterterrorism chief, sure picked an unlucky day to deliver a speech defending the Obama administration’s

The Republican National Committee has issued a political response to the president’s Nobel Peace Prize, blasting the Nobel Committee for denying the prize to

I hate to bring this up, given all the good feelings today, but as Washington celebrates, Wall Street had a record Inauguration Day slide, led by fears that

It’s not really a statement of support for nominee Rajiv Shah, who’s already got strong and eager support from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. But

It’s not only Democrats who want some answers about the Treasury Dept.’s Wall Street bailout strategy. House GOP leaders are also wondering where all those

Remember back in 2003 when the insurance industry said that the creation of the Medicare Advantage program -- which allows Medicare patients to receive their

The administration may have hoped its lawsuit against Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law would deter copycats in other states, but state officials continue to

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is negotiating behind the scenes to come to a compromise on oil spill liability language that on-the-fence Democrats like Sens.

Nestle Waters North America has backed out of a deal that would have required pumping water out of the Wacissa River for use in the company’s Madison County water bottling plant. # Nestle was heavily opposed by environmental groups, who argued the company would do serious damage to the Wacissa if the water withdrawal plan moved forward. Across the state of Florida, water withdrawals and industry effluent are taking a toll on lakes, streams and rivers. # “Nestle is a large corporation that is in this for the money,” reads a post on Earth First! Newswire

Here’s a strange story. On Sept. 8, Orly Taitz gave a press conference outside a California courthouse, during which she invited a small cast of characters to

Tea Party Express, the California-based organization famous for propelling Nevada’s Sharron Angle -- and later Alaska’s Joe Miller and Delaware’s Christine

Pic via dbmathews.com The number of people on Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting list continues to drop, but with more than 3,200 people, the list remains the longest in the U.S. The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (known as ADAP) provides medications for the treatment of HIV and AIDS for people who cannot afford to pay because they are unemployed, uninsured or underinsured. States have implemented a variety of cost containment measures that include waiting lists since 2010, when an ADAPs began facing an ongoing funding crisis.

Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell stands with Tea Party protesters in Delaware. (O’Donnell campaign)

On Tuesday morning, Politico broke the news that Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.) was switching from the Democratic Party to the GOP. For Les Phillip -- a Tea