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Across the country, reports are surfacing that often after a woman is raped, she gives a DNA sample to police -- and then nothing happens. Separate revelations

Yesterday, the Taliban successfully killed at least 18 U.S. servicemembers and Afghan civilians a suicide car-bomb attack. Today, less successfully, Taliban

It’s hard to imagine the American Legislative Council — a free-market-backing marriage of state lawmakers and business — shares much of anything with the

Maybe I’ve just not been reading it, but this Martin Luther King Jr. Day seems to lack the phoned-in King wanted black people to shut up and get over slavery

A new policy providing clearer protections for LGBT students will be implemented by Miami-Dade County starting today. # Equality Florida — dedicated to securing full equality for Florida’s LGBT residents — explains that, “with this latest victory, 1.55 million students representing nearly 60% of Florida’s school population are now protected from bullying based on sexual orientation and gender identity – ranking Florida fourth in the nation.” # Equality adds that the Miami-Dade Safe Schools Coalition worked for more than a decade to expand this policy in Miami. The coalition includes the NAACP, AFL-CIO, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, United Teachers of Dade, SEIU, Save Dade and the Alliance for GLBTQ Youth

Here’s an interesting story from The Washington Post about what key Obama administration officials and would-be officials make of potential openings to Iran,

There will be no cloture vote on a $245 billion proposal to prevent pay cuts to Medicare doctors, according to the office of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who

State Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo), chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee and leading critic of recent higher education reforms, released a

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) In the wake of the federal government’s decision to overrule the FDA’s request to expand access to over-the-counter emergency contraception to women under the age of 17, a new report shows that even some women 17 and older are unable to obtain the morning after pill when they need it. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that about 20 percent of 17-year-olds who called in to a pharmacy to ask for emergency contraception that day were unable to receive it.

Momentum is building for Democrats to try one last time to pass a version of the DISCLOSE Act once Congress resumes, this time without the extraneous (and some

When Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who head the committees charged with writing health reform legislation this year, vowed a few weeks

Plenty of politicians have accused the Obama administration of playing politics with immigration policy. But even within Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

New report says Obama must push harder to negotiate return of almost 100 Gitmo prisoners still held without charge.

Via Angry Bear, here’s Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist, on Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson Jr. celebrating the bailout plan he presented to

It’s amazing the vitriol that the community-organizing group ACORN has inspired among the right in this election cycle. In recent days, the National Review

American Express cards may no longer be used to purchase medical marijuana. The company has given no reason for the prohibition.

The Associated Press just reworked its earlier piece stemming from a morning interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. No longer

Minnesota for Marriage — a coalition that includes the Minnesota Family Council, the National Organization for Marriage and the Minnesota Catholic Conference — criticized the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York . Lawmakers in the Empire State passed same-sex marriage last week, and the bill was signed into law by Gov

A case before the Washington, DC District Court could serve as a roadmap for what the Obama administration must do with thousands of ’war on terror’ detainees held by the US around the world.

Having lost his strongest (theoretical) 2010 GOP Senate primary opponent, former Club for Growth President Pat Toomey blasts out a statement about former