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In a big setback for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Rep. Patrick Murphy’s (D-Pa.) efforts to insert amendments overturning the military’s ban on open gay

Good news from RealtyTrac this morning, as it reports that foreclosure filings -- default notices, auctions and reposessions -- fell 9 percent from March to

So writes The New York Times, reporting today that the nation’s drug makers are prepping to pay more, under the Democrats’ final health reform bill, than the

The GOP could see its first victory in the fight to take down the one-year-old Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act if the Senate votes next week to

A few weeks ago, a group called Concerned Taxpayers of America emerged out of nowhere and started to spend large sums of money attacking Rep. Peter DeFazio (D)

A new generation of pioneers have struck proverbial gold at an abandoned silver mine near Aspen. What was once a wasteland of arsenic, cadmium, lead and zinc on a steep mountainside that abuts Castle Creek is now a haven for natural grasses and wildflowers that have stabilized the slope and drastically reduced the risk of the heavy metals crashing into the city’s main water supply. The striking change of scenery around Hope Mine is the result of the first whole-scale reclamation project ever attempted in the United States, and possibly the world, using biochar — a type of charcoal produced through the thermal treatment of organic material in an oxygen-limited environment.

I was just looking at some notes I took during the Clinton campaign’s conference call with reporters on Monday. It’s pretty clear that the kinds of things

Henry Blodget at Clusterstock points out that Coke CEO Muhtar Kent penned a Wall Street Journal editorial that suggests people are fat and lazy all on their

In response to the 2002 national-security principles’ committee meetings chaired by Condoleezza Rice that I wrote about in my piece today, filmmaker Robert

He’s been threatening to do it for weeks, and today Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) made good on his vow to push legislation reining in the overdraft charges that hit

The New York Times runs a very good piece about the strained, tentative and sub rosa relationship between the Obama administration and American Muslim

Today’s edition of the GOP proposes plan that consists of vague attacks on Democrats story is the broad outline of a health care plan just released by the

Lansing City Councilwoman Carol Wood, whose mother was allegedly murdered by convicted serial killer Matthew Macon in 2007, says that Macon has now threatened her life as well as that of an Ingham County Prosecutor. Wood says she was notified in late August by the prosecutor’s office about a “concrete threat against Catherine Emerson and myself.” “They said that they had received a letter on that threat and that it would be turned over to the Michigan State Police Major Crime Task Force,” Wood said

More data are in concerning the new Super PAC, Alaskans Standing Together, formed to back Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in her write-in re-election bid for

In places hit hardest by the mortgage crisis, like Prince William County, Va., federal bailout funds could have little effect on a community left reeling by hundreds of abandoned properties.

DES MOINES — President Obama’s American Jobs Act would mean about 11,000 jobs for Iowa, Democratic leaders say, including 4,100 teaching and first responder positions and 6,700 construction jobs. Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky , Sen. Herman Quirmbach (D-Ames) and Des Moines Education Association President Melissa Spencer spoke about the plan Monday at the Des Moines Public Schools Central Campus

When the Obama administration announced its plan earlier this month to transfer military commissions-bound Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional

The Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has introduced a bill that would allow Election Day registration for federal elections

A trio of professional snow shredders are charging the biggest hill in Washington, D.C., this week. Their message: Congress is getting too radical on Capitol Hill.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is the latest lawmaker to weigh in on the astounding news that AIG -- which remains alive