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In his weekly address, President Obama had some harsh words for Republicans, for prioritizing tax cuts for the wealthy over the continuance of federally

Facing resistance from moderate Democrats, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is ready to compromise on some key provisions of

You thought the Denver mayor’s race was maybe a little boring, that maybe the candidates were fairly interchangeable, give or take gender and skin color. Well, now that we are down to two, the gloves seem to be coming off. Friday, Chris Romer sent out a press release questioning Michael Hancock’s bonafides on abortion rights.

The turnout to today’s Tea Party was indisputably high -- likely in the hundreds tens of thousands (though organizers claimed it reached 1.5 million). But

The Senate Finance Committee reconvenes this morning to consider ever-more attachments to its $900 billion plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system.

As The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin reported last week, GOP Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth might be down in the polls, and he might have just a fifth of the

As Sen. Barack Obama has learned in recent days, it’s easy to slip up when taking on economic issues in a political campaign. From Walter F. Mondale

Public Policy Polling surveyed Iowa voters on potential Republican 2012 presidential candidates and found former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with a twelve-point

No one likes to lose. But losing represents a chance to start again, to build something out of lessons learned and mistakes made. It provides the opportunity for new people to begin to mold the Republican Party in ways that senior leadership had resisted.

Here are more photos (see round one here) from the Code Red rally against health care reform that shook the upper Senate Park this afternoon.

The Christian Science Monitor carries an interview with an anonymous and recently retired senior Pakistani intelligence official, who tells us to expect more

Harry Shearer plans to buy up all the comedic talent in the world, one jokester at a time.

The Washington Post: Army investigators at Arlington National Cemetery have found more than 100 unmarked graves, scores of grave sites with headstones that are

Here’s more video from the front end of today’s red alert anti-health care reform protest -- a lengthy first crack at a Tea Party version of The Twelve Days

While costly, the ship was the linchpin in the sea service’s advanced strategy to patrol and fight in the most dangerous shallow sea lanes, known as littorals. Think Iraq’s national waters, where the country’s two oil terminals are located. But the Navy suddenly killed the weapon program. The explanation has pleased no one -- especially Congress.

Today, I’ll be covering a Treasury Department conference on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that provide

This might qualify as evidence that there is a God, and he (or she) has a sense of humor. From The New York Post’s Page Six: lthough we didn’t think it