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Michigan is no longer alone in suing lenders and banks for failing to pay title transfer fees, as two counties in two other states have now filed similar lawsuits. Dallas County, Texas and Christian County, Kentucky have now filed lawsuits similar to suits filed by Curtis Hertel, Jr., the Ingham County Register of Deeds, and Oakland County Treasurer Andy Miesner.

Today’s jobs report is much worse than economists had predicted. Landrieu spreads the wealth to her struggling Democratic colleagues. A former GOP

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Pic by World Economic Forum, via Flickr ) The tea party has added another item to its list of reasons to fear the United Nations: Some in the movement say the U.N. is planning to intervene in the United States’ upcoming elections. This week, when Attorney General Eric Holder announced his speech on voting rights , the Texas group True the Vote called for a protest of the event because “Holder is for NAACP Plans to involve the United Nations in US Elections.” True the Vote, a voter integrity initiative launched by the Houston tea party group King Street Patriots , held a national summit this year featuring some of the right’s most incendiary speakers, such as Andrew Breitbart, The Texas Independent reported.

Opposition to health care reform has sharply declined in recent weeks, according to a new survey from polling company Rasmussen Reports. The new Rasmussen

Though presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has insisted he is opposed to abortion, Michele Bachmann is again criticizing him for failing to sign a pledge drawn up by the Susan B

PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- Here is what happened at the press conference Sen. John McCain just held -- accompanied by his wife, Cindy, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist

As state legislators and Gov. Rick Scott continue to block federal health care reform from entering Florida, the state is facing a child health crisis whose remedy could lie in the very policy they are determined to stop. # In the 2010-2011 budget, a state program aimed at reducing instances of child abuse and neglect in the state of Florida took a big hit .

Long-shot 2012 Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger beat former Massachusettes Gov.

Here’s the list of elected Republicans on the statewide and federal levels who spoke or appeared at Tea Parties. – Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said that a bill to end tax subsidies for large oil companies will likely fail next week. Bingaman is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

Five days after Mike Allen reported that friends of Fox News creator Roger Ailes wanted him to run for president, and four-and-a-half days since Ailes laughed

Responding to a federal report obtained by The Florida Independent that alleges that Florida has mismanaged funds for a program meant to supply HIV/AIDS medications to low-income citizens, Michael Rajner — legislative director of the Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus — says the state has downplayed how neglect has played an important part in its AIDS Drug Assistance Program’s ongoing funding crisis. # He also says that the U.S

When asked for her reaction to Tina Fey’s portrayal of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live, McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina told MSNBC’s

Detroit Public School Emergency Manager Roy Roberts has ordered the closure of Detroit’s school for pregnant girls and teen mothers but teacher Nicole Conaway says the move could be costly. In a letter to the Detroit Free Press today Catherine Ferguson Academy teacher Nicole Conaway says closing the school won’t fix budget problems for Detroit or Michigan. State-controlled DPS claims the “extras” CFA provides are too costly.

This press release from the Alaska Republican Party, via ThinkProgress, is truly sad: The Alaska Republican Party further believes that current Senator Mark

Wednesday marks one year since the initial explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig sent around 200 million gallons of crude oil gushing into the waters of

Coming on the heels of this morning’s news that Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) will not be a candidate in the special election for the late Robert Byrd’s

Two months after filing suit over allegations of questionable contributions made to the 2006 and 2008 campaigns of Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, the Federal Election Commission has released three letters it sent to the Buchanan campaign asking for more details on the matter. # Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (aka CREW), which twice named Buchanan to its list of the most corrupt members of Congress, spoke out about the letters in a Wednesday press release