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Six state legislators who have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Susana Martinez over her veto powers will have their case heard by the New Mexico Supreme Court Wednesday, reports the Las Cruces Sun-News.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- When Gov. Sarah Palin said during the vice presidential debate Thursday that her family has gone through periods where they’ve been

The Pentagon just announced one of the brigades it plans to send to Afghanistan next year. The 82nd Combat Airborne Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division out of

Congress is considering a bill that would issue competitive grants to develop neighborhood-specific programs in economically disadvantaged communities toward

The Obama Administration has cracked down on anti-abortion extremists who have obstructed access to abortion clinics in the past two years.

Republican House candidates, especially challengers seeking to portray themselves as outsiders to Washington politics, are almost universally running on a

A new NBC poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the Obama administration’s decision not to release the photos of Osama bin

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) just released a formal announcement confirming our report Monday that his Senate Judiciary subcommittee would hear testimony on

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 campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the governor’s supporters.

In January, the Justice Dept. announced its first-ever investigation of an official involved in the CIA’s enhanced interrogation -- i.e., torture --

In what likely seems like a paradoxical result, the latest jobs report from the Department of Labor shows that the economy added 244,000 jobs in April but the unemployment rate still jumped from 8.8 percent to 9 percent.

Tell your children to get a degree in advertising -- political advertising, to be exact. Despite the economic downturn, and despite the fact that we’re not in a

The New York Times editorializes today about the failure of the DISCLOSE Act, chastising Republicans for seeking the right to poison the political atmosphere

Following his Tuesday announcement that he will launch a 2012 presidential exploratory committee, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) went on CNN’s show In the

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit is blaming his company’s considerable troubles on moves by previous management to dive into real estate. In a particularly generous

Let’s say a preacher appeared on a massively popular TV show and offered scriptural justification for an unprovoked attack on a foreign country. What would you

The New York Times has a good overview of the tone of this week’s Washington visit by Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai: an end to nearly 18 months of very

The indispensable Terry Krepel asks a good question: Why has WorldNetDaily not quoted Orly Taitz since dutifully promoting her forged Kenyan birth