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Mere weeks after the Arkansas Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex adoption, the battle over two-parent adoptions is heating up in Michigan as advocates for youth in the foster care system say that thousands of children are being denied permanent homes. Under a 1935 law, only one person in state government can sign off on every adoption in the state, causing a two month delay reports the Detroit News.

Congress.org reported earlier this week that U.S. House Republicans are once again planning to meddle with the laws mandated by the District of Columbia’s own

This is her third Senate race in five years. As O’Donnell’s manager, I found out she was living on campaign donations, one former O’Donnell staffer charged.

It’s official. Chrysler has paid off some $7 billion that it was loaned by the federal government in 2009 in order to keep the company afloat while it went through a managed bankruptcy and restructured. The bail out has been contentious for some, with several GOP presidential hopefuls having declared that the auto giants should have been allowed to fail

Yesterday, I picked apart the Climategate scandal, arguing that climate change skeptics’ position -- that the leaked emails proved the science behind global

Some good news from the Labor Department this morning: Mass layoffs, where an employer fired more than 50 workers within a month, decreased year-on-year and

Sen. Barack Obama is focused on large swing-state rallies in the campaign’s homestretch, but he just carved out precious time to address a more dispersed

The Washington Post has a great story that looks at the opening phases of the forthcoming U.S.-NATO-Afghan push to take the regions surrounding Kandahar city

On a conference call with reporters just moments ago, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) voiced a cautious optimism over President Obama’s rejection of the automakers’

Yesterday’s landmark Wall Street Journal piece about Afghanistan featured an anonymous military official who downplayed the significance of the Marine campaign

A self-described “center right” Hispanic Republican group announced its two New Mexico state coordinators on Thursday. The Hispanic Leadership Network named Jamie Estrada, a former Bush administration official, and Christopher Saucedo, an Albuquerque attorney, to run the group’s grassroots outreach efforts in the state. In September, HLN kicked off its efforts in the Southwest by holding a conference in Albuquerque having as keynote speaker Gov.

The Department of Labor this morning released its much-anticipated employment numbers for March, indicating that the economy created 162,000 new jobs last

Via Jonathan Chait, we see Vietnam War hero Bud Day -- known these days for his support of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his habit of constantly wearing his

Late in 2008, Mike McConnell, then the director of national intelligence, issued a directive instructing CIA officials at overseas outposts directly responsible

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Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, will leave the Obama administration in July, making him the first cabinet-level

After meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the White House today, President Obama issued a directive giving Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

The $700 billion bank bailout was supposed to stabilize banks and get them lending again. However, some of the recipients seem more interested in rallying big