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I wouldn’t have guessed it, but after looking into the names of 14 people pardoned and another 2 who had their sentences commuted by President George W. Bush

Pelosi fills Kennedy’s shoes on health care. The no’s on the House health bill received one-third more from health insurance interests than the

Good news for DREAM Act supporters: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today the act will be added as an amendment to the defense

Uninsured women are three times more likely than the well-insured to have their breast cancers diagnosed when it may be too late to cure them, according to a

In a recent interview, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a friend of Florida Gov. Rick Scott and a likely GOP presidential candidate, says that he prays for the

State Sen. Roger Reinert (DFL-Duluth) and state Rep. Carly Melin (DFL-Hibbing) will support Duluth City Council Member Jeff Anderson in his bid for the DFL nomination for the 8th Congressional District

A key administration official charged with overseeing the country’s offshore drilling pushed back yesterday against allegations that drilling inspectors in the

In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama laid out a bold initiative to double the United States’ exports in five years, helping create

It’s a rhetorical gambit predicated on a mostly false hypothetical that pretty much assumes its conclusion: There’s a bomb set to go off but you don’t know

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman is filing live updates on the McChrystal-Eikenberry Afghanistan hearings; follow them here. Delegates to the Copenhagen summit will

Rep. Mark Critz (D-Pa.) managed to survive Tuesday’s Republican onslaught to win his first full term in the House. But it may also be his last: His district is likely to be eliminated by the Republican state government.

The U.S.-Mexico border is more secure than it’s ever been, according to current and former top border officials who appeared at a panel hosted by the Center

The former North Carolina senator kept himself in the spotlight as John Kerry’s running mate in 2004 and as a candidate for president in 2008. But his 2008 bid

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their monthly jobs report, which estimated that 80,000 new non-farm jobs were created during October, and

The Senate today voted against the U.S. House of Representatives budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year, 40-57. The House bill was sponsored by Rep. Paul

<p>Monday kicked off this week’s Trade Show at WIREC 2008, anticipated to be the U.S.’s largest renewable energy expo/business conference yet. The White

As same-sex-marriage friends and foes gear up for another marriage battle in Maine in 2012, a soon-to-be released documentary about a 2009 voter referendum that

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education released the final criteria for its Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge — and it looks like Florida is still in jeopardy of losing eligibility for $100 million in federal education grants because of the state’s rejection of federal funds. # The final criteria for the competitive federal education grant includes a requirement that states must participate in a program funded through the Affordable Care Act

Cantor embraces bipartisanship on the GOP’s terms. Dems take advantage of their snow day. Sarah Palin needs help. Wall Street, speaking with its

UPDATED: 10:40 a.m. This article was amended with a correction* noted below. Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would

E.J. Dionne wonders if Pope Benedict XVI is more liberal than Obama. Pharmaceutical companies are using your dollars to lobby Congress. Calling released