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Update: A spokeswoman for Alabama’s attorney general just told me that Alabama is also signing on, and subsequently sent out a press release, reprinted at the

The Associated Press: A top Iranian official said his country would respond next week to a United Nations-drafted plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia

After a Saturday full of partisan bickering, presidential arm-twisting, rowdy protests, and naked racism, the House stands ready to vote today on a historic,

When Merrill Lynch snuck in $4 billion in executive bonuses just before its sale to Bank of America, nearly everyone I spoke with said that while the move was

The Huffington Post’s Shahien Nasiripour, a great financial reporter, has a good piece on a top executive at J.P. Morgan Chase trashing Sen. Carl Levin

A Massachusetts county clerk says a forensic examination of documents filed by Troy-based Orlans Associates, one of the largest foreclosure firms in Michigan, shows that the company has engaged in illegal robo-signing.

(Via Politico’s Ben Smith) Carly Fiorina, a senior McCain campaign adviser and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, told a St. Louis radio station earlier today

ANCHORAGE -- We’re still going through documents from the time Sarah Palin served as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla, that I picked up from the clerk’s office on

The Obama administration doesn’t want to fight with Afghan President Hamid Karzai anymore. Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the special representative to Afghanistan and

So the ACLU doesn’t really like FBI Director Robert S. Mueller’s proposed new guidelines for investigations, fearing that the relaxed rules could open the door

Among the cases the Supreme Court will consider reviewing in its private meeting tomorrow are two controversial cases arising out of the war on terror. Both

Good: Because Don McLeroy -- the guy who, according to The New York Times, identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was

Here is the letter that John Fonte of the Ethics and Public Policy Center is passing around conservative circles, collecting signatures to oppose the nomination

A friend of a friend just received the following email from a junior officer serving in Iraq. It makes for especially powerful reading in the wake of the Second

On Wednesday the Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Gov.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) faces a dilemma as he decides whether to vote for Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s confirmation as a Supreme Court justice: He is

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Women’s issues may not be high on the list of Sen. John McCain’s priorities, as we saw this week when he squirmed as a reporter asked about

It’s hard to know whether this is good news or bad, but theoretically, at least, it could have been worse. The Obama administration said on Wednesday that it