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Even as the Obama administration is pushing mortgage servicers to modify more loans to keep folks in their homes, RealtyTrac released its monthly report today

It’ll be Bud Light for Obama, Blue Moon for Crowley and Red Stripe for Gates. Susan Collins backed the same government-sanctioned euthanasia that the GOP

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CNN examines the stalled efforts to rework troubled mortgages, noting that only 6 percent of 4 million eligible homeowners have been helped so far under the

Fueled by their congressional victories in 2006, House Democratic leaders moved bills on renewable energy, health insurance for children and an economic stimulus package -- only to run into a wall of GOP opposition in the Senate and presidential vetoes. But Obama’s election could tear down that wall.

The vote’s not over yet, but it might as well be. Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine have both voted ’no’ on the DISCLOSE Act,

In July of 2005 I flew to Guantanamo Bay and spent four days on a Potemkin tour of one of the most disgraceful misadventures in U.S. history. I saw bolts dug

So, here’s my understanding of how Indiana law works in a situation like the one Evan Bayh has created. Tuesday -- tomorrow -- is the last day that a candidate

By a surprisingly clear 53-47 and 54-46 margins, voters in Oregon have approved ballot measures raising taxes on wealthier residents. It’s the sort of story

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is sitting down with reporters today at 10 am to defend herself against charges brought against her by the House Ethics Committee.

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has canceled his May 16 trip to St. John’s Basilica in Des Moines, an official from the Basilica said this week

While his former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination will still be slugging it out in early primary states, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be wined and dined as a guest speaker on the annual cruise of the conservative National Review. The cruise will host guest speakers like former United States representative to the United Nations John Bolton, Star Tribune columnist James Lileks and former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed.

DES MOINES — Former U.S. Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-Penn) stopped at the Iowa Capitol Tuesday morning, after a visit to Ames and an interview on Fox News, to caucus with Iowa Senate Republicans.

VetVoice’s Brandon Friedman just got ahold of a wacky pitch to an ex-Army captain from a recruiter trying to get said ex-captain into a National Guard or

When a policy rollout begins with a series of misrepresentations, you just know that policy is totally superawesome and its architects have total confidence in

At The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz spares few words regarding his view of voluntary foreclosure freezes. Ritholtz says he never thought much of the idea in the

The pushback is unlikely to become what critics hoped it might -- a humbling moment.

TWI’s publisher, the non-profit Center for Independent Media is looking for two news editors to shape the editorial direction of a network of sites across the