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Today, skeptics on climate change--ranging from scientists to economists to industry folks--gather in New York for the 2008 International Conference on Climate

Mike Isikoff scoops the world that retired Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald is going to be appointed new chief convening authority of the revamped military

While the GOP’s conservative base may be clamoring for more of Sen. John McCain’s red-meat attacks on Sen. Barack Obama -- particularly on Obama’s connection to

An interesting admission in Benjy Sarlin’s interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the GOP’s brainy ranking member on the House Budget Committee who’s been

Party tactics trumped seniority. Democrats take a bold step as Henry Waxman, who is far more in line with the president-elect’s agenda, replaces John Dingell as chairman of one of the most powerful House committees.

This was murky earlier today, when I wrote about the size of Sarah Palin’s fee for speaking at the Tea Party Convention, but it’s been confirmed. The former

During periods of one-party government, when Democrats controlled both the White House and the Congress, history shows that they have not shifted radically toward a leftward agenda.

In late January, accusations started flying that former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) campaign had concocted a story that its Website had crashed after a

According to a report released by the Guttmacher Institute yesterday, abortion rates in the U.S. have dropped in the past decade among almost every subgroup of women – except for the impoverished. From the years 2000 to 2008, low-income women accounted for 42.4 percent of abortions.

Wisconsin Family Action (WFA), a group affiliated with the Family Research Council and a leader in opposing LGBT rights in the state, is being accused by Democrats of sending out absentee ballot applications with an inaccurate deadline for the state’s Aug. 9 recall elections.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrong to cut monitoring for radiation with the nuclear disaster in Japan still unfolding , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said this week.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer (Pic via ice.gov) The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it will begin reviewing about 300,000 deportation proceedings to implement prosecutorial discretion measures laid out in a June 2011 memo issued by John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE).

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered a speech today at American University about border security, immigration enforcement and her department’s controversial Secure Communities program.

Via Glenn Thrush at Politico, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is lashing out at recent reports revealing a bailout meeting she facilitated between Treasury

The Iowa Independent caught this quote from Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), talking about Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) recent threat to join a GOP filibuster of a

How’s the news of Sarah Palin’s upcoming speech at a Tea Party Express rally playing out with some of the Tea Party grassroots? About as well as you’d

Here’s the first important thing President Obama said Sunday on Meet The Press: I’m not interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in

A new national poll contends that a vast majority of likely American voters support a plan by U.S. Rep.