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As if we needed more evidence that not all is well in the housing market: Bloomberg reports that the Federal Housing Administration may be involved in more

Last month, on a conference call with reporters, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair stated that the total budget for U.S. intelligence activities --

Republicans today have been quick to use the Dept. of Labor’s new employment numbers as evidence that the Democrats’ efforts to stimulate the economy over the

Last year government watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch asked the state’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel to investigate charges that Colorado-licensed attorney and former Congressman Scott McInnis violated professional ethics when he reportedly plagiarized articles he was contracted to write for the Hasan Family Foundation. The plagiarism charges tanked McInnis’s 2010 campaign for governor, but the Regulation Counsel found McInnis not guilty of either plagiarizing or misrepresenting his work to the foundation .

In lieu of federal inaction on immigration policy, at least 25 states will soon consider legislation that mirrors Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070, one of the strongest immigration-enforcement measures in decades.

This uncharacteristically lazy Yuval Levin essay on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is making the rounds, but it doesn’t contain anything that wasn’t hashed out on talk

A few weeks ago, Citigroup and the real-estate investment firm Redwood Trust announced they had organized the sale of new mortgage-backed securities. They

Remember that controversial rule in the financial regulatory reform law, designed to prevent banks from making risky bets on their own behalf? It did not take

There are two high-profile primaries in Utah and runoffs in the Carolinas tonight; here’s a rundown of what’s to come: UTAH Two races hold national

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty is scheduled to headline a tea party summit in Phoenix, Ariz., from Feb. 25 to 27.

It’s not looking good for Senate Democratic leaders hoping next week to pass a $245 billion proposal to give Medicare doctors pay raises over the next decade.

Can Wikipedia help vanquish voter suppression in America? That’s the model some activists are betting on. Democrats have been moving swiftly to fight

Five years after his death in a Baghdad bombing, the career of Sergio Vieira de Mello -- who worked to resolve conflicts in Cambodia, Kosovo and East Timor -- inspires his successors at the U.N.

A self-identified army wife asked former senator Rick Santorum an open-ended question about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell -- she wanted reform, but was full repeal

A federal district judge this afternoon sentenced one-time super lobbyist Jack Abramoff to four years in federal prison for public corruption. The sentence is

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) passed away earlier this morning. As Washington mourns his death, Democrats will also have some tough political calculations to make.

One more thing that bears mentioning from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s big counterterrorism speech. Here’s what she said about her

There’s a lot of buzz today about this Rasmussen Reports survey asking voters who they’d back in a three-way race: the Democrats, the Republicans, or a

Here’s an interesting confrontation from a hearing on the Hill today between Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. King said he’d

President Barack Obama ‘s weekly address was filmed at an Illinois farm and leans heavily on his Midwest tour throughout — including a shout-out to the Maquoketa High School girls’ volleyball team — but the overall theme is that it is time for those in Congress to quit playing politics. “e need the folks in Washington — the people whose job it is to deal with the country’s problems, the people you elected to serve — we need them to put aside their differences and get things done,” Obama said.

Rep. Erik Paulsen and former Bush staffer Karl Rove were both showered with glitter at the Midwest Leadership Conference Friday