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According to The News Service of Florida , Gov. Rick Scott is taking inspiration from controversial education changes in Texas, and may be toying with the idea of bringing them to Florida

Despite the National Organization for Marriage declaring preemptive victory Wednesday, the battle over legalizing same-sex marriage wages on in New York, with

In Hillary Clinton’s first major foreign policy address as secretary of state, she made the case for changes in how the Obama administration’s national security agenda will be carried out.

Rachel Maddow had a segment last night about various Republican policies proposed around the country that would have a negative impact on children, including the bill in Michigan that would have required foster children to buy clothing only at second-hand stores. She specifically showed our reporting on that bill at the Michigan Messenger. Here’s the video: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy

Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s administration will not sell five of the state’s prisons as previously intended, the state’s Department of Rehabilitation and

A two-member delegation of Iraqi parliamentarians -- one Sunni and one Shiite -- toured Washington this week with a simple message: withdraw from Iraq. What

Graham’s Gang of 14 proposal isn’t finding many takers among Dems. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is pushing for a loophole in the Senate’s financial reform

Obama’s Supreme Court nominee will have to be reasonable to all voters. Reid backs away from his previous pledge on immigration. Technology companies are

Immigration reform is a no-win issue. Lindsey Graham is right to be upset. As Dems scramble to bring Graham back into the climate fold, will the White

While Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton mentioned the longstanding American policy that does not accept continued settlements and the obligation to

UPDATE: Aug. 10, 2011, 3:15 p.m., with a correction Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) last week launched a campaign to prevent

For all their Gandalf-versus-the-Balrog declarations that former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) will resume his seat, Senate Republicans have all but admitted

Fifty percent of Americans say Obama does not deserve re-election. Financial reform could be signed by the end of May, says Barney Frank. Obama’s drilling

As the presidential campaign season heats up, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has vastly outraised his Republican rivals, none of whom managed to raise a quarter of the funds he’s collected

Former three-term Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez is running as a Democrat for the U.S. House in New Mexico’s First District, writes Albuquerque Journal. Democratic Rep

State legislators in Missouri passed a bill yesterday that further restricts cases in which women can receive late-term abortions. Missouri’s restriction is similar to language in Florida’s state ban on public funding for abortion.

Thaddeus McCotter praised grassroots activists in Iowa, saying his own “most fulfilling and rewarding” political position was when he was elected as a

James O’Keefe has issued a statement on his arrest in Louisiana, portraying himself as a maligned investigative journalist who was merely trying to see whether

Ben Smith has a great catch -- the North Dakota Republican Party fronting its website with a joke about the White House party crashers demanding President

My efforts not to write about the Justice Dept.’s torture report are failing. Here’s a statement from Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI): “Some have suggested that the