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The GEO Group’s North Lake Correctional Facility pink-slipped its workers this week after the state of California decided not to renew a contract to house inmates there. The Baldwin facility, Michigan’s only private prison, originally operated as a maximum security youth prison but sat dormant for six years before reopening in May with a plan to house more than 2,500 California inmates.

Westminster, Colo. -- Sen. Barack Obama gave another detailed economic address on Monday afternoon, but it was mostly beside the point. He ticked through his

Brian Maloney writes at the Radio Equalizer that conservative Boston talk show hosts have been yanked and banned today. He writes of WTKK-FM host Michael

With the Pakistani foreign minister and Army chief of staff in town, what does Leon Panetta vow in his first conversation with the press as director of the CIA?

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A youthful-looking woman in a gray suit with long brown hair is known only to us as Interrogator Number 11. She was a military interrogator at

Frank Bruni reports a new fact in the Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) origin story. How and why did he acquire his famous truck, as he calls it? As Arianna, the

After a former immigration detention guard was charged yesterday with sexually abusing female detainees, the ACLU is renewing calls for further reform of the

For many conservative activists, the RNC’s lavish spending only accelerated the revolt against the committee that had been brewing for months.

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) has announced that he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, making him the third senator to come out

As the Wall Street bailout nears its first anniversary, a risky aspect of the financial rescue has flown largely under the radar.

Rahm Emanuel is not a legally viable candidate for the Chicago mayor’s office, according to a Monday ruling from an Illinois appellate court. The panel decided

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst aren’t the only state leaders in the U.S. to have private donors and corporate interests pick up the tab for

After more than a year idling in the House, a proposal to give the residents of the nation’s capital a voting representative in Congress finally seemed clear

With the recession’s deepest layoffs having occurred two years ago, the number of 99ers is on the rise. But some, like LaDona King, are holding out hope.

These banks are way too involved in the economy, and they have been way too involved in protesting this bill, one advocate said.

“We’re going to vote on the DREAM Act, it’s just a question of when,” Reid said after the filibuster. “This isn’t the end of this. We’re going to continue to move on.”

Since the White House effectively killed the foreclosure crisis measure in the Senate, some in the upper-chamber are not ready to give up.

Freshman Republican U.S. Rep Renee Ellmers (N.C.) will chair the Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology, which is part of the House Committee on Small

Last week, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) asked the White House to lend West Virginia’s lawmakers periodic briefings on the investigation into last week’s

Shirley Sherrod may not accept her USDA job back. Alex Sink (D) leads by 6 points or more over either likely Republican candidate in the Florida governor’s

Republican senators say they can still work with Democrats after health care. A former U.S. general apologizes for his anti-gay remarks about preventing the