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Nancy Youssef at McClatchy reports that Defense Secretary Bob Gates has ordered incoming Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his deputy, Gen.

Media Matter catches Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) on the House floor last night comparing the capture of undocumented aliens to that of exotic grasshoppers. Now it

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget, here’s the showdown you’ve been waiting for: Defense Secretary Bob Gates, who cut er,

Following in the footsteps of Indiana and Kansas, the state of North Carolina has denied Planned Parenthood its state and federal funding. # The chain of women’s health clinics in the state lost three sources of state and federal funds when the state’s legislature voted yesterday to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the budget that included the cuts.

The Connecticut independent’s support for the Iraq war and his tireless campaigning for McCain made a lot of enemies in his former party. But when Democrats are close to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, bygones will be bygones.

A community group in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest organization to take issue with the Obama administration’s rosy assessment of the status of the Gulf oil

The Michigan Department of Treasury has warned 300 tobacco shops that machines they have which roll cigarettes on location may be considered illegal.

Sen. Barack Obama is continuing his strong push to target women voters based on issues, according to a new Obama campaign strategy memo, while Sen. John McCain

Friends of the Earth is reporting that $500 million in loan guarantees coveted by the nuclear industry were stripped from the Obama administration’s stimulus

Tomorrow, the House reconvenes to vote on a $26.1 billion state aid package, providing Medicaid and teachers’ jobs funding to cash-strapped states. And while

Perhaps there’s nothing eye-popping about a small-town mayor rejoicing over a big-time check from Washington, but in the context of Alaska Gov. Sarah

Evangelical college Liberty University on Tuesday resumes an ongoing lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that provisions of the Patient Protection

With the news that Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested today for allegedly peddling power all over the state, who has any interest in an

ThinkProgress has this great catch. During an interview with NBC’s Meredith Vieira on Today this morning, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, appearing

The donation of an anthology of post-9/11 commentary by Professor Noam Chomsky has been rejected from the library at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, reports The

Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign released a video this weekend targeting virtually all of the Republican presidential front-runners for flip-flopping.

Protesters demonstrate against Arizona S.B. 1070 (Pic by ProgressOhio, via Flickr ) A legal challenge to Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement law, known as S.B

Lawmakers, bankers and experts say some problems that brought down the financial system have yet to be solved.

Before going off to the Council on Foreign Relations to give a speech on foreign policy, former Minnesota governor and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning.

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Paul Curry is out of work. His unemployment claim hasn’t yet been ruled on