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With thousands of votes still to be tallied, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has won the first political campaign of his life — and it was a political battle

With allegations of voter fraud swirling in several swing states and both parties dispatching lawyers into the field at record rates, there’s been a lot of buzz

I noted last week that the push by some Republicans — including, now, Gov. Tim Pawlenty — to review and possibly alter the 14th Amendment to the

Today, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the Senate majority leader, sent out a statement blasting a Republican plan to keep all the Bush tax cuts, adding an estimated

Joe Miller, now officially Alaska’s Republican candidate for Senate, is another insurgent who fits into a pattern Jesse has identified of politicians shirking

Greg Craig announced his departure as White House counsel on Friday, and you can Google for yourself all the Internet-dispersed acrimony and recriminations that

As last-ditch negotiations between the White House and U.S. House Republicans appear to head south, federal lawmakers seem poised to allow a Friday deadline pass without agreement on a temporary continuing resolution. Without the bill, or something similar in place, a government shutdown looms.

From a U.S. Central Command press release: The United States government delivered two Bell 412 EP helicopters to the Government of Pakistan today to assist the

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is calling on BP to extend the deadline to apply for relief under a $100 million compensation fund for rig workers who have lost

We’ve been writing for months that a major hurdle facing Democratic leaders as they merge the House and Senate heath reform proposals is what to do with the

After deleting references to climate change from a study on rising sea levels, a Texas environmental regulatory agency has reached a standoff with the

In a hotly anticipated biography about enigmatic Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the brain behind the iPad and iPhone is shown to have a pessimistic view of the

The 2008 Democratic and Libertarian presidential hopeful resurfaces to give a barely audible endorsement to Adam Kokesh, a libertarian activist who’s running

Just weeks ago, sightings of oily sediment washing up on Gulf Coast shores served as a pointed reminder of the continued devastation of last year’s Deepwater

Data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the Commerce Department this morning shows that Americans earned a bit more, spent a bit less and saved more

While some consumer groups are shaking their heads at yesterday’s Federal Communications Commission decision to encourage but not force wireless companies to be more forthright with extra usage fees, the senator who tried to reign in the industry isn’t crying defeat. An e-mail from Sen. Tom Udall’s (D-N.M.) staff sent to the New Mexico Independent read, “The big picture here is that this never would have happened without Sen

Jason Linkins, in fine form after Jerome Corsi’s conspiracy ramblings about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, does some reporting: I contacted Frank

Over and over again, the Greek government has stated that the currency trades that Goldman Sachs arranged to allow the Greek government to hide a portion of its

This morning, Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he will introduce a deficit-neutral version of the jobs bill. His Fiscally Responsible Relief for Our States Act

Former FEMA Administrator Michael Brown (you know, the guy that became a walking metaphor for the Bush administration’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina) is

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he would consider the financial regulatory reform bill over the July 4 Senate recess. He’s back, and he says he is a yes: I’ve

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