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On Florida’s northwest coast, the beaches are clear and the water clean, yet tourists are canceling vacations in droves, CNN Money reports. BP has capped the

My story this morning found the outrage over Keep America Safe’s al-Qaeda 7 ad petering out, with one reason being a general disinterest from politicians who

Despite calls for independent bodies to keep government accountable, the Sunlight Foundation’s most recent Clearspending report has found the federal

Last week it was Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) who blocked legislation to hike the oil industry’s liability for economic damages following spills. Today, it

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, appearing today before the congressional bailout oversight panel, repeatedly emphasized the importance of transparency to the

Peter Bergen asks a great question: Since we’re seeing movement toward Karzai-Taliban negotiations, what kind of negotiations should there be? Should

Though Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa,) made it clear he opposed a truth commission along the lines of what Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has proposed, at a Senate

The Iowa Independent reports that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) today echoed Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments that yesterday’s

In fairness, this was a rapidly issued apology (near-apology?) by U.S. Forces-Afghanistan. Here’s the statement in full, which I received 20 minutes

Finally, a sovereignty question! I was starting to think the GOP wasn’t what it used to be. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) is concerned about American sovereignty at

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took to the Senate floor on Thursday and talked about the implications of Congress’ cave to the banks on his mortgage cramdown

Party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) is getting whacked again for his life-long record of supporting Democrats, this time from Tea Party-backed

One of my friends in the small community of Obama birther-debunkers passes on quite the discovery: a 1964 certified copy of registration of birth from

Reuters notes that Wall Street types are complaining that coverage of the current foreclosure crisis -- in which banks might have taken houses away from

Yesterday’s Pentagon briefing featured a telling exchange about Iraq between a reporter (whom I think was McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef) and spokesman Geoff

Immigration Policy Center released a study today contending that new Americans, defined as recent naturalized citizens and U.S.-born children of immigrants

Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism teamed with researched at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Maryland to analyze a sample of suicide deaths among U.S. military personnel on active duty between 2002 and 2008.

Joe Bolkcom Sen. Joe Bolkcom (D-Iowa City) said in a statement Tuesday he will introduce a new abortion bill this week aimed at prevening a Nebraska doctor from opening a family planning clinic in western Iowa that would offer late-term abortion services.

Former Bill Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis is about as anti-progressive as you can get and still be a Democrat -- here’s Davis in 2006 calling liberal opponents of

Forget $400 haircuts -- accessorizing the GOP vice presidential nominee requires serious cash. Politico reports that the Republican National Committee

Josh Gerstein is all over the Justice Department’s filing in Orly Taitz’s latest birther lawsuit. Taitz’s suit includes — not as evidence, but as something