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Sen. Barack Obama is ending this campaign just like he started it -- as the coolest guy in the room. Obama’s calm vibe is a recurring theme in campaign

More than three years after California attempted to enact stricter auto emissions standards, only to see them rejected by the Environmental Protection Agency

For some reason, Kentucky U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul never gets called the frontrunner in that race. Secretary of State Trey Grayson, seen as the

More on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) offer to trade the White House a Guantanamo Bay closure for a military commission for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. On ’Face

The economic downturn has meant cutting back one prestige product and trimming some minor costs and low-level staff. Several long-time scholars have left for more complicated reasons.

Yesterday evening, Elizabeth Warren, responsible for setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spoke at a meeting of the Financial Services

Building on yesterday’s question of how precisely Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan strategy is synchronized, take a look at Brandon Friedman’s post at

School Choice Wisconsin fired back against charges the Milwaukee school voucher program discriminates against students with disabilities as alleged in a federal

Ok, so this will probably still mean a prolonged period of indecision as regards a U.S. troop increase, but The New York Times has a great and very detailed

Two weeks after sending the Special Olympics a video message about her son Trig, who was born with Down Syndrome, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) has attacked

Two powerful interest groups used a Senate Small Business Committee hearing today to call for an end to the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater

Credit to Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard for breaking this: Five GOP senators joined with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to

A military judge’s ruling that U.S. officers used cruel and inhuman treatment and possibly torture on an Afghan teenager imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay

Neighborhood watch to fight global terrorism is just one of Palin’s ideas.

I wrote before the recess that it appeared likely that the DISCLOSE Act wasn’t dead yet, but now it’s official: Senate Dems plan to bring it up for another vote