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In this deteriorating economy, wealthy people who used to spend their money freely on exotic vacations and $8,000 Birkin bags supposedly are cutting down their

On Capitol Hill right now, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is moderating a bicameral response to President Obama’s health care push, which heads

That’s one of the questions coming up in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit being argued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of 23 lawyers

Via Andrew Sullivan, Haaretz’s Aluf Benn reports on some preemptive Obama administration brushback to members of Congress who’d take an anti-peace process

Today, organizers for the Democratic National Convention announced the event’s official themes and a national interactive town hall, designed to create the

Early this morning, Internet group Anonymous, an online forum that has of late sought to position itself as a political force of hackers and whistleblowers,

I’ve noticed for weeks that Sarah Palin’s memoir Going Rogue had been heavily discounted at Amazon.com, a result of a price war between the online retailer

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We wrote here recently about the oddity of congressional Republicans blasting the thought of creating a public plan while at the same time lauding the virtues

In case you were wondering, as I was, what exactly President-elect Barack Obama intends to talk about during the press conference the transition team scheduled

Officials released new figures yesterday detailing just how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill -- about twelve times more than

Speaking in the Rose Garden this afternoon, President Obama asked Congressional Republicans to stop blocking measures to aid the economic recovery and lower the

A nonpartisan watchdog group is blowing the whistle on U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and others in Congress who consistently advocate for tax breaks, subsidies and other giveaways to oil and gas companies.

Just as it did with the Senate’s defense authorization bill, the White House released a statement warning the House Appropriations Committee against placing any

That’s perhaps the boldest declaration in the joint statement from G-20 world leaders meeting today in London. The communiqué, which pledges $1.1 trillion

The spin from Michael Steele’s camp was a little overzealous. The results: Mike Duncan - 48 Michael Steele - 48 Katon Dawson - 29 Saul Anuzis - 24 Ken

Following his formal entrance into the 2012 presidential race on Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed on to co-chair an anniversary gala for the

If auto manufactures fail, spin off industries could cut thousands of jobs. In all, some 2.5 million workers could lose their jobs.