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A total of 28 telephone utilities have been given federal money to build and expand broadband access in rural service territories that span portions of Iowa and 17 additional states. U.S

Indeed, no one saw it coming; Donald Trump is well-known as a businessman and a TV personality, but never a politician.

It seems that President Obama’s impromptu press conference on Tuesday to sell the compromise he worked out with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits has not convinced some of his fellow Democrats. Several Democrats in the U.S. House are so upset about the deal that they’re trying to block the House from voting on the bill.

Adm. James Stavridis made it sound like a fait accompli this morning when he told a blogger conference call that NATO will soon announce a new senior official

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) has read the Army-Marine Corps Field Manual on Counterinsurgency that Petraeus quarterbacked in 2006, and he notes that it urges

If there’s one rule that’s been pretty consistent throughout the ongoing debate over the appropriateness of federal earmarking, it’s that the critics usually

Todd Herman, the new media director of the Republican National Committee, avers that his Twitter comments are not statements on behalf of my employer. That’s

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August jobs report Friday morning, finding that a small increase in private-sector employment of 17,000 jobs was exactly offset by a loss of 17,000 public-sector jobs. Unemployment remains unchanged at 9.1 percent. However, the U-6 measure — including involuntary part-time workers, marginally attached workers and discouraged workers — is unchanged at 16.2 percent.

Analysts -- those who have worked on al-Qaeda and on other threats -- describe themselves as drinking from a firehose of information shared with the National Counterterrorism Center by the partner intelligence agencies.

State Republican leaders are staying mum in the wake of the release of emails between Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz and an operative effort backing GOP candidate and former U.S. Sen

Occupy Austin saw a series of run-ins with police this weekend, with a total of 42 protesters arrested over two days of peaceful demonstration, ending the

An ongoing EPA investigation of possible contamination from hydrofracking in Wyoming has found significant amounts of cancer-causing fracking chemicals in a freshwater aquifer in that state. ProPublica reports : A pair of environmental monitoring wells drilled deep into an aquifer in Pavillion, Wyo., contain high levels of cancer-causing compounds and at least one chemical commonly used in hydraulic fracturing, according to new water test results released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency

Rumors of Bill Richardson replacing Hillary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State exploded across the internet Monday and appear to have been started by a report from Examiner.com and have been falsely attributed to Washington Examiner — which is unrelated to Examiner.com — by Fox News, among other outlets.

Markos Moulitsas and Research 2000 have attempted to take it, and the results are up now. Among them: - Only 24 percent of Republicans say that ACORN

A central provision of the health care reform bill will be limited by its short duration and narrow terms of coverage.

Fred Karger , an openly gay Republican who has formed an exploratory committee in hopes of seeking his party’s nomination for president in 2012, has already had “conversations” with the Hawkeye State’s more socially conservative party members, but the discourse is heating up again as state activists aim to exclude Karger from upcoming debates. Karger informed reporter Sean J

The Washington Post provided an interesting look Sunday into the life of an Arizona woman who illegally entered the country a decade ago. The woman is married

Wildlife, it turns out, isn’t too savvy about political borders – whether those borders divide countries or states. Deer and elk don’t do maps. Sportsmen and conservation groups pointed that out in different ways this week when they protested a bill that would strip away environmental protections within 100 miles of U.S

A small cadre of House Republicans on Thursday introduced legislation that will force Michigan State University and Wayne State University to forfeit millions of dollars in state aid payments. The move comes as the GOP claims the two universities violated a tuition restraint deal in the most recently enacted budget deal which goes into effect Oct. 1

This shouldn’t go by unnoticed: The former head of Enron’s failed Internet division was just sentenced to 16 months in prison, The Washington Post reports.

A Texas congressman is behind a letter sent to President Barack Obama last month disagreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice’s choice to block the merger