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The prices for consumer goods fell for a second straight month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today -- meaning the second straight month of slight

For environmentalists in the Appalachians, it was a roller-coaster week.

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A host of progressive activists, Occupy Wall Streeters and union members rallied and marched from Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis to the Wells Fargo building Friday. The march, which led to a sit-in protest outside the bank’s headquarters, was spurred by what marchers defined as the unwillingness of the major banks, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, to address the continuing foreclosure crisis.

Here’s something that slipped under the radar yesterday. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan organization that tracks money in

Talking Points Memo reports that the McCain campaign is shifting its ad spending away from Colorado and states won by Sen. John Kerry in 2004 to those won by

Breaking news from The New York Times: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were

There’s some truly historic intra-party bashing in Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.)’s rant to Kentucky reporters. On his majority leader, and fellow Kentucky

Draft legislation extending a number of key tax credits for the renewable energy sector is circulating around Capitol Hill this week. Renewable energy groups

In comments on a previous post, my friend M. Leblanc thinks my opposition to hot dog diplomacy is misguided: It’s like this: the local embassy (in my case,

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is addressing the Young Republican Leadership Conference today in Washington, though large excerpts of his speech have

The early picture from the #Afghan09 Twitter hashtag and news reports is that the Afghanistan elections were plagued by minor attacks, to use The Associated

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama have held nothing back as they battle for votes in what could be decisive primaries Tuesday in Ohio

Likely 2012 Republican presidential candidate, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty , said Tuesday billionaire Donald Trump needs to stop questioning President Obama ‘s birth location. “I, for one, believe that we should not be raising that issue in the sense that I think President Obama was born in the United States,” Pawlenty said Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program.

As the foreclosure crisis worsens, renters increasingly have become caught as innocent bystanders, evicted often without notice when their landlord faces foreclosure.

The Supreme Court has denied the right of a Muslim detainee from Pakistan to sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller,

Yesterday, my friend Reihan Salam and I recorded a Bloggingheads video, where we talked mostly in broad terms about taxes, fairness and economic growth. You can

Prominent author, commentator and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley has announced that he’s cutting all business ties to Wells Fargo & Co. The move comes in

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s going to be giving her first major speech on the Obama administration’s foreign policy to a domestic audience this

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), a vocal critic of exorbitant executive pay, fears new legislation will give competitive advantage to the biggest banks.