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The state Legislature turned away $2.8 million in annual funding from the federal government for comprehensive sex education in Florida.

The White House is expected to lift a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

So Charles Djou, one of the three GOP candidates vying for a blue seat in a special election right now, is not promising to move immediately to repeal health

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to tap Cass Sunstein, a Harvard constitutional scholar and contributor to The Washington Independent, to lead the

The Pentagon just announced that late Friday, the Senate confirmed now-full-Gen. Keith Alexander to be the first commander of the U.S. military’s new effort at

In an address to delegates at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen today, President Obama promised that America would meet

President-elect Obama’s big economic speech today details all the problems the economy faces, and he predicts dire consequences if the government doesn’t act

Cliffs Natural Resources, the international mining and natural resources company that began producing biofuel cubes at a factory near Marquette this year, has announced that it is closing its renewaFUEL operation. In a statement this week the company said that it plans to focus resources on iron mining, its core business.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is one of the most understaffed, demoralized agencies in Washington. Some say even top-flight talent won’t be enough to reform it.

The Counterinsurgency Center teaches officers not to think terrorism-bad but clinically when combating insurgents. Is George Washington comparable to Osama Bin Laden? But some in the military worry that traditional military functions are eroding because of an overemphasis on counterinsurgency.

The Iowa Independent has some great photos from President Obama’s health care rally in Iowa City yesterday, depicting the president, other political leaders and

The presidential race may be a dead heat here in the United States. Across the globe, however, it’s a landslide for Sen. Barack Obama. Two extensive

Today, Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said he supports President Obama’s decision to cut U.S. military aid to Pakistan by nearly one billion dollars over the next year

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (Pic via stearns.house.gov) An attorney for the group partially responsible for a recent congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood says the group has targeted the chain of health clinics as part of a strategy to end abortion

Ben Smith’s discovery of a 72-page RNC fundraising PowerPoint is a must-read, especially the giveaway slides that reveal the ... seriousness with which the

Strangely enough, there hasn’t been a great deal of congressional reaction to Israel’s deadly Monday attack on an aid flotilla making its way to Gaza. Rep.

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