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A conference of U.S. and Mexico border governors is underway in New Mexico, but New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is the only U.S. governor in attendance after

The Environmental Protection Agency announced late last week that it has chosen seven areas in five states to focus on in an ongoing study of the effects of hydrofracking on water quality. None of the sites are in Michigan, where a great deal of land has been leased to energy companies for possible fracking but little activity has begun. Three of the sites are in Pennsylvania, all located over the Marcellus shale

Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee was passing a not-very-green cash-for-clunkers amendment to the Waxman-Markey bill, three senators introduced a

Michigan’s Republican-controlled redistricting map has prompted plans by Detroit Reps.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s response to the news that a man he granted clemency in 2000 is a suspect in yesterday’s brutal massacre of four police

Chances are President Obama will announce a readjusted Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s very likely that strategy

Karl Rove, who is launching his new book today, by way of donations has already taken sides in several 2010 Senate races. Rove’s 2009 contributions

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial jobless claims climbed to the highest level in five months, up 2,000 to 484,000, with last

Physics professor David C.

U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., is traveling to speak to a tea party meeting in the state’s largest city, but he tells NMPolitics.net that his Albuquerque trip has nothing to do with a potential Senate run.

John Brennan, the White House senior adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, has been summoned to the Sunday shows to discuss what went wrong in the

I spent the early afternoon at the March for Life, the annual rally held on the National Mall to mark the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, to see how the 48-hour-old

In a new series of automated phone calls launched today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) again calls on citizens to tell Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, to “come clean” about ethics violations

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Monday they had filed charges against the owner of a Lansing medical marijuana dispensary who allegedly offered free pot for registering to vote. Skekina Pena, owner of Your Healthy Choice Clinic, was arraigned Monday at 54-A District Court for “influencing voters with Money or other valuable consideration.” Pena was released on a personal bond of $3,500.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has still not made a decision about whether to lift her hold on President Obama’s nominee to head the White House Office of

A new report by the Michigan League for Human Services finds that long-term unemployment is at the highest rate since such measures began to be tracked in the state of Michigan. More than half of Michigan’s unemployed adults of prime working age (25-54) last year spent a half year or longer looking for jobs – the longest on record, the 2011 Labor Day Report from the Michigan League for Human Services concludes.

Bob Woodward’s new book, entitled Obama’s Wars, will be released next Monday. The book covers the Obama administration’s decision-making process about troop

Jason Pye passes on a video of Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), a candidate for governor of Georgia, being questioned by minor birther figure Carl Swensson (of

While there’s strong support for deporting dangerous criminals, federal programs such as this one are extending far beyond that goal and detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants for such minor infractions as running a stop sign or carrying an open container of alcohol.

As the results of the Pennsylvania primary sunk in Wednesday, the question that had been forming for weeks became a chorus: Why can’t Sen. Barack Obama

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Want a sure sign that Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal isn’t going to face a difficult confirmation hearing to command U.S. forces in Afghanistan? The Senate

President Obama spoke with George Stephanopoulos yesterday in Cleveland, and the interview is being aired this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America. It was a