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President Obama has promised a multi-pronged approach to a greener future, but with legislation to reduce carbon emissions now on hold, energy efficiency

This is the jaw-dropping part of Manu Raju’s new story on Republicans encouraging former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) to continue litigating to keep Al

Forget the candidates. The biggest political battle this weekend was between the Obama field staffs in Ohio and Pennsylvania, two big swing states. The two

Via Andrew Sullivan, Marc Ambinder gives the Obama administration’s rationale for opposing a truth commission on torture: In the view, a commission would

Federal drug officials on Monday raided at least 10 medical marijuana operations in at least six Montana towns. From The Great Falls Tribune: Federal agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration were seen clearing hundreds of marijuana plants out of Montana Cannabis’ greenhouses Monday as local law enforcement officials stood by outside the building.

Just out from State Department press chief P.J. Crowley: The Secretary of State has designated al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) as a Foreign

At a breakfast with reporters this morning, California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina responded to a question about whether she would filibuster Obama nominees

The Alaska Division of Elections said yesterday that it has more than 20,000 absentee and questioned ballots left to process, according to the Anchorage Daily

Pic by samantha celera, via Flickr Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a professor at Stetson University College of Law who teaches Election and Constitutional Law, told WMNF that Florida’s new voting laws could affect church efforts to get religious voters to the polls on the Sunday before election day. Among restrictions that include new regulations on third party voter registration drives, a shorter “shelf life” for signatures collected for ballot initiatives and new restrictions on voters changing their registered addresses on election day, the new law would also eliminate some early voting days such as the Sunday before election day.

When the talk of health care reform was generic -- and therefore unthreatening -- the insurance lobby joined a number of other powerful voices in the health

A new Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll finds that voters seem likely to vote no on Proposition 23, which would overturn California’s

Two days after a conservative group filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver challenging Colorado’s renewable energy standard (RES), Colorado Sen. Mark Udall – who was instrumental in getting voter approval for that RES back in 2004 – introduced a bill with his cousin Tom Udall, D-N.M., to establish a national standard.

Peter Bergen asks a great question: Since we’re seeing movement toward Karzai-Taliban negotiations, what kind of negotiations should there be? Should

The Iowa Independent reports that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) today echoed Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments that yesterday’s

Reuters notes that Wall Street types are complaining that coverage of the current foreclosure crisis -- in which banks might have taken houses away from

Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly has a nice commentary on Alberto Gonzales and his recent lament that he’s one of the many casualties of the war on

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez acknowledged that her grandparents came to the U.S. without documents in an interview with Univision Albuquerque affiliate KLUZ-TV.

From the Republican senator’s Twitter feed:

The Pakistani Army is claiming that it has practically cleared the Taliban out of the Swat Valley. Now comes the real counterinsurgency test: holding the area.