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Buried in this poll on Maine political attitudes is a question on the Nov. 3 same-sex marriage referendum that does not auger well for gay marriage opponents.

Ever wonder how legislation to repeal the health care individual insurance mandate started springing up in states across the country? Jesse Zwick takes a look

Gov. Sarah Palin’s predator abatement program doesn’t give the wolves a fighting chance; she tried to strip power from their defenders, too.

Worth noting from yesterday’s House Judicial subcommittee hearing on the foreclosure crisis: Republicans just can’t shake the temptation to blame the Community

After spending untold billions of dollars securing the nation’s airlines from ill-intentioned passengers, it seems there’s a new menace in the nation’s skies. A

As Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey busily works to bury the abuses of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court may be getting ready to hand President George W.

The prime minister of the Caribbean vacation nation Antigua & Barbuda (official name!) has renamed his country’s highest mountain Mount Obama. Seriously. W.

Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reports from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain. Here she covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech today in Toledo, Ohio.

The New York Times reports that President-elect Barack Obama is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100

With the numerous appearances by McCain campaign staff and advisers today on the cable news channels -- and McCain himself scheduled to appear on all three

Speaking at a major annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated he would be willing to support further

If the 5,000 plus demonstrators that marched to the Mortgage Bankers Assocation (MBA) annual meeting in Chicago on Monday are any indication, the city has had

The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report that housing starts climbed more than expected in March. Builders applied for

Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.) announced his retirement today, mixed--but mostly dire--news for Democrats, who were hopeful that he could hold on and defeat his

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

Even though there’s a new administration in Washington promising broad ethics reforms, it looks like the old way of doing things may still be alive and well in

Roughly two-thirds of unlicensed gun show dealers sold weapons to undercover investigators even after those investigators told dealers that they probably

The Minnesota Independent has the details: Elwyn Tinklenberg is terminating his campaign for Congress. The former Blaine mayor, who lost to U.S. Rep. Michele

TWI Legal Correspondent Daphne Eviatar is a scheduled guest. Daphne will talk about her fantastic story on Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) truth commission

Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, has refused to file an anti-health care mandate lawsuit, and called other AGs’ decisions to do so