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The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep.

Evidently out of patience with attacks on the Obama administration for reading would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights, John

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. President Obama will deliver his major health care speech to Congress at 8 p.m. tonight -- and the

GOP presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen

Cornell economist Michael Lovenheim has an amazing study of the impact of housing wealth on college affordability and attendance (PDF). From the

Then here, read this: It is unclear from unclassified reports whether the information gained was critical in foiling actual plots. Mohammed later told outside

HuffPo’s Ryan Grim reports that House Republicans have introduced a motion to penalize strategic defaulters -- underwater homeowners who simply stop paying

A slew of big-name conservatives will appear at the first ever regional Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando on Sept. 23. Confirmed speakers include Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, Marco Rubio, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul .

The Carlisle Development Group writes to The Florida Independent today that the company is “taking immediate and aggressive steps to address” allegations by construction workers that they have not received wages for work done on the Northwest Gardens affordable housing project managed by Carlisle. # Early this week, Fort Lauderdale construction workers told the Independent that between 40 and 50 workers have not received their wages for anywhere from three weeks to two months, and are owed between $1,600 and $3,500. The Northwest Gardens project consists of 150 new townhomes and apartments designed for working families. # Ann Briggle — junior account executive at The Jeffrey Group , a marketing and corporate communications firms focused on “Latin consumers, customers, influencers and stakeholders throughout the Americas” — submitted the following statement on behalf of Carlisle: # It has recently come to our attention that a sub-sub-contractor at Northwest Gardens has not fully lived up to the standards we, Carlisle Development and the Housing Authority of the City of Fort Lauderdale, demand

Aiming to prevent a 21-percent reduction in Medicare doctor payments next year, the House today passed legislation scrapping the flawed formula that has

It appears that Iran succeeded in launching a satellite into space as part of an effort to expand its ballistic-missile capability into the

Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist whose visibility has been on the way up since relocating his operation to Washington, is launching another

The implementation of a case by case review of at least 300,000 deportation proceedings, announced by the Department of Homeland Security last week, has left room for questions among immigrant advocate groups.

In addition to the major primary runoff in Arkansas’s Senate race and the 10 states holding primaries today, a new member of Congress will be elected tonight in

A long-awaited report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence into the failed bombing attempt aboard Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Adam Serwer at The American Prospect tears through a weekend dump of torture documents and finds something disturbing in an FBI inspector general’s report about

The New York Times editorial board came out swinging in a Sunday editorial on climate change, slamming Republican Senate candidates for questioning whether

Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, puts out a flag-waving statement on the GOP candidate’s surprising, 11th-hour

Via Justin Elliott, I wonder if Muslim Mafia author Dave Gaubatz is causing any heartburn for the four Republican members of Congress who endorsed his book

A trio of groups were behind the successful push to place a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage, as well as civil unions and domestic

The Republican plan to privatize food service in the state prisons will increase the odds of dangerous and costly violence, corrections workers warn. “One of the things you don’t mess with is a person in prison and their food,” said Tom Tylutki, president of the Michigan Corrections Organization, which represents state corrections officers. For years the Michigan Dept