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He may not survive the upcoming U.K. election, but Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a speech today in Parliament arguing against any strategy for Afghanistan

The Environmental Protection Agency has temporarily ceased clean-up operations of last year’s massive oil spill since last week because of storms and high flood levels on the Kalamazoo River. Mark Durno, deputy incident commander for the EPA response in Calhoun, tells Michigan Messenger the decision to stop clean up work was made because the river is nearly as high as it was last July 25 when Enbridge Energy Partners’ Lakehead Pipeline 6B ruptured , spewing an estimated one million gallons of Cold Lake crude oil into the Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.

As Congress jousts over how to reform the nation’s health care system, many experts say that the Massachusetts model, which has reduced the state’s uninsured rate to the lowest in the nation, is a good place to start.

DENVER -- Here we go, Al Gore! 6:46pm: Gore comes out. Invesco is going nuts. He says if he was president we’d never have invaded Iraq. 6:48pm: Gore on

Brian Beutler at TPM reports that under pressure from Senate primary challenger Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) says he’d vote for Office

In Ohio on Tuesday, voters went to the polls and repealed a law that prohibits collective bargaining by public employee unions. But some voters received robocalls from proponents of that law telling them that the voting was on Wednesday

Over at our sister site, The Michigan Messenger, Todd Heywood reports that he just conducted a phone interview with Palestinian journalist Sameh Habeeb, who is

Washington’s prognosticators have all but written off a strong public option as part of the health reforms working their way through Congress. But don’t tell

President Obama announced his $150 billion job creation initiative on Tuesday, which includes everything from new spending for highway and bridge construction,

It is more than a little painful—some would say ugly—watching Hillary Rodham Clinton fight to the last to hold on to her dream. This was not the way it

At a Rose Garden press conference today, President George W. Bush called for Congress to lift the federal moratorium on off-shore oil and natural gas

The conservative author who makes a living offending liberals takes a tiny step into the land of Obama birth certificate theories with a throwaway line in her

EPA has asked nine hydraulic fracturing service providers to voluntarily hand over information about the chemicals the companies use in removing natural gas

Like Carter, Craig stepped down this year from a position that put him in charge of Guantanamo-related decisions. Craig resigned as White House Counsel this

Matt Bai’s long article on Sen. Barack Obama in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is already reverberating among news junkies. There’s plenty of political