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With an assist from Politico, which has completely bought into Glenn Beck’s campaign against czars — on Monday, the publication sketched out a GOP czar

The House last night easily passed a compromise automaker bailout negotiated for days between congressional Democrats and the White House. The Democrats -- who

After months of proposals, arguments, hearings and public comments, federal regulators today approved new rules to make credit cards more consumer friendly. The

After three terms representing North Dakota in the upper chamber, Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, facing a potentially* tough reelection this year, announced

John Judis at The New Republic joins a growing chorus of voices wondering if President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan goes far enough. We’re talking about a

MSNBC and Roll Call are reporting that moments ago on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) read a letter from Vice President-elect Joe

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck accused someone, somewhere, of orchestrating phone calls about the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in

Two reporters who filed a ton of great, context-building coverage of the National Tea Party Convention were Jillian Bandes of Townhall.com and Lydia DePillis of

I don’t really feel like getting into an argument about Israel today, but Eli Lake at The Washington Times reports: President Obama has reaffirmed a

... Fox News. But, really, was there ever any doubt? Drudge reports that Greta Van Susteren has landed the interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She is

How did Afghanistan become more dangerous than Iraq? Spencer Ackerman reports.

The Bush administration is set to argue to the military commissions appeals court in Washington Tuesday that a confession obtained from a teenager under torture

We’ve got more great stuff from the American News Project today. Producer Harry Hanbury put together a great "best of" or, "worst of"

The man who managed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s successful 2008 Iowa Caucuses campaign has signed on to manage Minnesota U.S. Rep.

Hey, what’s up with Apple? First CEO Steve Jobs gives a non-update update on his health - a hormone imbalance? - and then the company announces today it’s going

Apropos of White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan’s comment yesterday that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had made a new strategic decision to

It seems like something out of a movie. The Washington Post reports this morning that the BP squad -- a group of FBI agents and federal officials from the

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) press conference at the Capitol this morning is churning dramatic headlines about how health reform is dead. But she

Last week, we wrote about the budget troubles facing states in this sputtering economy, with nearly half of them already proposing or enacting cuts to Medicaid.

<p>PART ONE</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley can’t wait for the Desert Rock coal-fired energy plant

In the past three months, Joe Wurzelbacher has gone from plumber to pundit to potential Congressman. The logical next step? War correspondent, of course. The