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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) got off to a rocky start in her relationship with her state’s Hispanic community, but on the day President Obama nominated

President-elect Barack Obama took a question on his team of rivals at a press conference in Chicago this morning, where, as Matt DeLong notes, Obama

Alabama’s new immigration law has been called the most far-reaching of the state-level efforts at cracking down on undocumented immigrants. But of all the

The Washington Pos t recently reported that some Republicans in the U.S. Senate are vowing to hold up legislation until the chamber finds a way to seriously cut spending and overhaul the budget. One of them is Marco Rubio , who is making the fight about President Barack Obama and drawing cheers from the conservative gallery. # “You cannot solve issues of this magnitude without presidential leadership,” he told conservative radio jockey Mark Levin during a discussion of the national debt.

This is a very big deal. The Obama administration has been pressing Pakistan to expand its military successes against the Taliban in the Swat Valley for months.

More than 200,000 people gathered on the National Mall today to participate in March for America, a rally advocating comprehensive immigration

When it rains, it pours, and when a reporter finds a good story, they don’t let go. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow seems to have found a good story in Colorado. This week, she ran her third segment on Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s efforts to stop county clerks from mailing ballots to inactive voters

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines (Pic via Facebook) Democratic National Committee chair Rep

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request to declassify certain documents that he said will show the effectiveness of Bush administration interrogation

Despite the Obama administration’s surprisingly vigorous arguments that the case had to be dismissed to prevent disclosure of state secrets, the U.S. Court of

As While House leaders, Democrats and Republicans in Congress engaged in contentious debate over an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday, anti-abortion-rights

The State Judicial Nominating Commission will begin interviews to fill a vacancy on the Iowa Court of Appeals at 1 p.m. today.

In all of the NRSC’s press releases on the Harry Reid flap, this line from spokesman Brian Walsh jumped out at me. Does Harry Reid believe that as the

CHICAGO, Ill. - Sen. Barack Obama cast his vote this morning, both daughters in tow, and announced that the experience was a hit. I feel great and it

The CIA’s Office of Medical Services was very clear in its September 2003 guidelines about the objective of the enhanced interrogation techniques were. In

Republicans began the year in worse shape than they’d been in since the 1970s. These ten conservatives helped shift the party’s power base and reignite its prospects for 2010.

Here’s the video of the day: Neil Cavuto of Fox News reacting to the Dow Jones index’s recovery by asking his first guest whether former President George W.

Defenders of the Keystone XL pipeline have argued that the project is important for creating up to 20,000 new jobs in a struggling economy, but TransCanada, which owns the pipeline, said late last week that the number of permanent jobs would only number in the hundreds.

I just talked to Frank Llewellyn, the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America, who was understandably nonplussed by the Republican National

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) records a promotional video for the Take the Town Halls to DC campaign, promising activists some more results for this bout of

Via USA Today, White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer has denied that the administration is pressuring Senate Democrats to forge a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman