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A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled today that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the law,

Republican House candidates, especially challengers seeking to portray themselves as outsiders to Washington politics, are almost universally running on a

A new NBC poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the Obama administration’s decision not to release the photos of Osama bin

The Democratic leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee just released the details of a compromise on the renewable electricity standard in the

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President Obama called on Wall Street today to stop fighting financial regulation and to instead embrace reform, Bloomberg reported. Speaking at Federal Hall in

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) just released a formal announcement confirming our report Monday that his Senate Judiciary subcommittee would hear testimony on

This afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) squared off on the chamber floor over how to proceed on

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the governor’s supporters.

In January, the Justice Dept. announced its first-ever investigation of an official involved in the CIA’s enhanced interrogation -- i.e., torture --

Today’s Congressional hearing on migrant labor in agriculture wasn’t just about Stephen Colbert. There was also a pretty serious debate over what type of reform

Tell your children to get a degree in advertising -- political advertising, to be exact. Despite the economic downturn, and despite the fact that we’re not in a

In what likely seems like a paradoxical result, the latest jobs report from the Department of Labor shows that the economy added 244,000 jobs in April but the unemployment rate still jumped from 8.8 percent to 9 percent.

This situation is, as Matthew Yglesias says, pretty ridiculous. President Barack Obama’s economic advisers are increasingly concerned about the U.S.

Fed up by months of foot dragging on the part of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), a subcommittee of the House ethics panel is preparing to go public on Thursday

The New York Times editorializes today about the failure of the DISCLOSE Act, chastising Republicans for seeking the right to poison the political atmosphere

Jeff Stein reports: As we reported last night, DHS intelligence chiefs were expected to take some heat Wednesday morning at a House Homeland Security

Leaders of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and the chairman of the Republican National Committee used combative language to describe the GOP’s bid to defeat President Obama and put in place further restrictions on abortion and marriage during a social conservative event in Iowa over the weekend.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) reasserted his claim last night that Al Qaeda may be sending women to the U.S. to birth a contingent of future terrorists

A new poll from EPIC-MRA has found that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, holds a slight lead over President Barack Obama in the state in next year’s presidential election

According to a recent report by NewsOne, an African-American news organization, a set of anti-abortion Oakland billboard will remain up, despite stirring controversy.

Following his Tuesday announcement that he will launch a 2012 presidential exploratory committee, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) went on CNN’s show In the