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A coalition of groups that oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline is calling on President Obama to remove the State Department from the process of deciding whether to approve the project.

Medicine Hat News reports on a speech Sarah Palin gave in Calgary (tickets as low as $150), where a folksy monologue took a shocking turn -- an admission about

A number of Republican presidential candidates are raising money for family policy councils, state-based religious-right groups affiliated with the Family

DES MOINES — Pastor Cary Gordon was sure many of the people who heard him speak last week at the west steps of the Capitol for the “Let Us Vote” rally thought the main reason they were there was to protest same-sex marriage.

From the Washington Post: An investigative report scheduled for release Wednesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee cites U.S. concern over as many as

A spokesman for Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has responded to Orly Taitz’s latest publicity stunt -- her claim that when Cantor accepted her Facebook request, it

At this morning’s Senate hearing on the D.C. Voting Rights Act, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) were

Sadly, I’m working on other things, but I’m listening to the livestream of an extremely powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing featuring

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is targeting newly sworn-in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for voting today to keep Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his

Weeks after Gov. Terry Branstad issued a line-item veto to close 36 Iowa Workforce Development field offices statewide, Republicans are sending a message to their Democratic counterparts who wanted to hold a special session to override the veto. No thanks, they’re saying

Until now, Republicans and some moderate Democrats have refused to support an Obama administration plan to keep tax breaks for middle-class families but to let

Maryland is set to join ten other states in passing a DREAM Act allowing undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition rates at state colleges and

Tonight, after waiting 30 hours for a cloture vote, the Senate reauthorized the federal extension of unemployment benefits -- moving one step closer to

In a unanimous decision released Friday morning, the Iowa Supreme Court has overturned Iowa’s law limiting marriage rights to opposite-sex couples, clearing

A quarter of the cuts required under the recent Congressional debt deal could be beneficially achieved through cuts to environmentally harmful federal subsidies, according to a report produced by a politically diverse coalition. McClatchy reports that Friends of the Earth, Public Citizen, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Heritage Foundation have produced the Green Scissors report which outlines cuts worth $380 billion over five years.

National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explores a circle of counterinsurgency thinkers as they rise in influence and prominence in the U.S.

In every downturn, there’s always an entrepreneur who finds a way to create a business opportunity out of terrible financial circumstances. This recession is no

Rep. Parker Griffith’s (D-Ala.) comment that he wouldn’t support Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in another vote for Speaker of the House has been manna for the

From a pool report: We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran and obviously, after the speech that I made in Cairo, we

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential

The fight over re-mapping Ohio’s congressional districts has become a savage partisan battleground in Columbus, and could even result in a referendum that