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Two Republican members of Congress will hold a press conference Thursday to discuss Americans United for Life’s recent report accusing Planned Parenthood

UPDATED Oct. 27, 2:40 p.m. EST: Amended with a correction* and update UPDATE: The National Organization for Marriage has since removed from its website the

The iconoclastic conservative, who’d spent the past week attacking the way that GOP lost the health care fight, says his departure came after being asked to

Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) spokesman Brad Dayspring has responded to Vice President Joe Biden’s remark that he’s less concerned about a long-term threat from

After the failure of the third cloture vote to start formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal, Senate Democrats say

Crack intelligence reporter Erick Erickson posted that he was hearing a very credible rumor that CIA Director Leon Panetta has dispatched a resignation

Something I couldn’t fit into my piece yesterday: Ivan Oelrich, the acting president of the Federation for American Scientists, weighs in on what President

Here are some photos from today’s Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. (Click images to enlarge.) – You can

Most observers agree that Al Franken’s (DFL-Minn.) election to the U.S. Senate is not a matter of if, but when. Not so for newly minted Republican National

The benefits of longer instructional time for students were put into question this week with the published results of Chicago Public School’s state

In exchange for their support to overcome a GOP filibuster, moderate Democrats extract big concessions on the public option and abortion coverage for women.

The Supreme Court is set to hear three big cases charging that the anti-corruption laws are too vague and recent high-level prosecutions under them must be

House Republicans are increasing pressure against U.S. Rep

MSNBC’s The Ed Show on MSNBC turned its focus on Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District race as candidate Lynne Torgerson spoke with Rev. Al Sharpton about incumbent Rep. Keith Ellison last night

The statement from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) following today’s health policy teleconference with other Gang of Six members relays

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Pic by The National Guard, via Flickr) Former members of a task force on Secure Communites sent a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling on her to suspend the immigration enforcement program.

The resilient Tea Party movement, seven months on from its first protests against the economic stimulus package, is proud of its success.

For eight months, Hawaii State Department of Health Director Chiyome Fukino’s statement on President Obama’s original birth certificate has fed, not silenced,

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is winning over more Republicans every day. As I noted yesterday, by the end of the hearing Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

Thirty-four members of the Minnesota Legislature signed a “friend of the court” brief in the lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A Florida judge ruled the ACA unconstitutional and the case is currently in the U.S.

The Department of Transportation just sent out some updated figures on the vehicles being scrapped and purchased under the popular cash for clunkers program,

As the polls open in Florida, political pundits agree that turnout could be the key to determining who walks away with the GOP governor’s nomination: Will