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New details have emerged on Louisiana’s $142.4 million literacy grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The program aims to expand child reading and

Iowa’s public universities are experiencing record enrollments but are being funded in real dollars at the same level as they were 30 years ago. In fact, no area of state government has taken more hits in funding over the past 10 years than Iowa’s Regent universities, according to the Legislative Services Agency. The universities made up most of the cuts through efficiency measures — staff and faculty reduction, closing programs, reducing janitorial services — but average tuition increases have been increasing while nationally they have declined

President Obama signed the 2010 defense appropriations bill into law this morning, following a brief bit of legislative theater by Republicans who wanted to

Democratic state Rep. Tim Melton of Auburn Hills has decided to leave office and move to California to work for Michelle Rhee’s education reform group

You can’t be a conservative today unless you’re taking the hammer and tongs to Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.). The Fox News All-Stars (I always expect them to turn

A new study by a U.S. Forest Service researcher found that the application of hydrofracking wastewater to a forest in West Virginia did enormous damage to the forest ecosystem, killing all ground plants and many trees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility reports on the study’s findings: She looked at the effects of land application of fracking fluids on a quarter-acre section of the Fernow Experimental Forest within the Monongahela National Forest

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Despite delivering on his promise of wings and Guinness, Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry failed to draw a crowd to his news conference at the National

Lisa De Pasquale breaks the news of Rush Limbaugh’s interview with Sarah Palin, to be conducted in the second hour of his Nov. 17 show. Since the 2008

New committee member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) asks what the State Department can do to bolster its role in international economics. Clinton: Obviously

Smelling blood in the water as Democrats made contradictory statements about what a Senate health care reform bill might contain, Republicans are pushing back against a possible compromise.

TWI correspondent Ana Marie Cox, reporting from the McCain campaign trail, provides a transcript of Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policy speech and highlights the

The McCain campaign’s robocalls have drawn a lot of attention over the past couple of days. The phone calls play one of several automated messages about Sen.

The seven-year-old old-line biweekly conservative magazine, which has been seeking a financial angel for a while, is finally buckling and going monthly. The

Now that we’re past Labor Day, a number of candidates have started spending big money on ad buys selling their biographies and touting their accomplishments. In

Confirming that there are already 2,100 open cases of mortgage fraud that the FBI is investigating, Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he plans to

Stories like these, whenever they surface, are bad news for mainstream conservatives trying to use this energy in a less insane manner. A group that calls

Gallup’s annual, open-ended poll of the most admired Americans finds President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on top. Obama, whom 30

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) expects a Senate vote next week on her proposed resolution to knock down the Federal Communications Commission’s rules

In one of the most rococo arrangements between patron and client-state imaginable, Afghan President Hamid Karzai might hire Zalmay Khalilzad -- who was an

Last month, Onyango Obama, half-brother to the President Obama’s father, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and then held by authorities due to an

Title XIV of H.R. 5136, the House bill authorizing next year’s Defense Department money, doesn’t look like it carries a major legacy item for President Obama.