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Department of Defense officials are expected to sign off as early as this week on a report detailing just how dependent the U.S. military is on rare earth

The same morning President Barack Obama announced he’s running for re-election , Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty countered with a video rebuttal. Like his previous Hollywood-style offerings, this one combines a cinematic soundtrack with quick-cut editing.

A bill approved by the Texas Senate and pending in the House aims to address the backlog of thousands of untested rape kits in law enforcement evidence storage

Late last week, a group of eight senators delivered lists of proposed measures to protect and promote coal in the pending climate and energy legislation to the

“It was the humanitarian thing to do,” said Dr. Chris Christensen about recommending cannabis for Cash Hyde. “There was a very high probability of fatality with any course of therapy,” he said about the boy, who was one year old when he was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer.

For the last 48 hours, all eyes in Washington have been on Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent who stirred a storm Sunday by announcing his

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee, slammed Obama administration officials

Three-quarters of Americans support the troop withdrawal from Iraqi cities; Cheney’s in the other quarter. Just because Madoff’s in jail doesn’t mean the

There’s something bizarre about Presidential candidate John McCain hiring chief terrorism prosecutor Edward O’Callaghan to head up his effort to thwart an

Experts will likely be debating the constellation of factors that led to last year’s financial downturn for years to come, but many conservatives arrived at

Four Democratic senators demanded late last month that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency must go. Their call for EPA Administrator Stephen

He’s decidedly anti-trigger. And he’s opposed to health care co-ops. But Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health

Gen. Stanley McChrystal is citing these figures in the expansion of the Afghan security forces as an accomplishment of his first year in command of the

Livonia Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter will formally file paperwork to run for the GOP nomination for President Friday. Advisers to the guitar-slinging legislator tell Politico he will add his hat to the party race Friday, making him the third sitting member of the U.S. House competing for the nomination

President Obama will return to Minnesota at the end of August to address the national meeting of the American Legion. Obama was in Minnesota on Monday as a part of his jobs tour. Also speaking at the American Legion meeting will be Michele Bachmann, considered in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates vying to defeat Obama

The objections to cap-and-trade legislation have been almost entirely economic: an emissions reduction program, the argument goes, would raise energy costs and

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made note of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s upcoming September appearance at the Freedom Jamboree, a tea party presidential nominating conference that will also feature Bradlee Dean of the religious group You Can Run But You Cannot Hide. Dean repeatedly has called for the incarceration of gays and lesbians, while Bachmann has frequently helped the group with fundraising.

Capitol Hill is a long way from Indian country, but this week tribal leaders and health care advocates took a big stride toward receiving the boost in

Though big labor was dealt a blow last week by news that the Employee Free Choice Act will likely not make it to the floor, they’ve quietly scored a big win.