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Several 2012 GOP candidates have released official statements following this morning’s announcement by former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty that his campaign would be ending on its third place finish at the Ames Straw Poll. “Tim Pawlenty and his entire team ran an honorable campaign,” said former Massachusetts Gov.

Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter today defended his decision to go against the Colorado Democratic Party and vote with the state’s GOP majority in supporting Republican Cory Gardner’s controversial Jobs and Energy Permitting Act (H.R. 2021). Rep.

On Oct. 14, Wells Fargo, which holds the second largest number of bank deposits in the U.S., will begin testing a $3 monthly fee for debit cards in New Mexico and four other states. The fee applies to all cardholders and will be triggered if you use the debit card for online or in-person purchases.

Greg Sargent has obtained the request Dick Cheney filed for CIA documents he claims will prove that torture worked. They’re for two CIA reports: One is dated

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) continues to make the case to the Obama administration that he can deliver the Senate votes to close the detention facility at

The Justice Department has brought charges against a Pennsylvania woman whose internet handle is Jihad Jane. Her actual name is Colleen LaRose, and she’s

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has drawn the ire from sections of the socially conservative base over their decision to allow

Congressman Justin Amash is one of nine members of Congress, and the only Republican, to vote no on a resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as a national motto. The resolution would also encourage the motto to appear on all public federal, state and local buildings.

Never heard of him? Neither had just about anyone, until a hacker leaked some awkward emails written by Jones and his colleagues at the University of East

Baseball’s Jose Canseco is making the news again, this time for the fact that his $2.5 million Encino, Calif. house has been foreclosed on. But some of the

Fox News reported Sunday that based on information from the Department of Homeland Security, local authorities in Arizona were pursuing possible ties between

President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) North Dakota is on its way to becoming the first state in the country to have an operating health insurance exchange program. Each state is required by the Affordable Care Act to have some infrastructure in place by January 2013 for an exchange. Florida remains one of the lone states dragging its feet

One reason that attacks on his master thesis didn’t really damage Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R-Va.) 2009 campaign was that his record as state attorney general was

Hakimullah Mehsud, the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban, gave his inaugural press conference yesterday -- The Associated Press’ Ishtiaq Mehsud reports in an

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) makes the gaffe of the day. Rachel Slajda recaps: Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) argued that insurers must be required to cover basic

A revealing moment from Robert Draper’s entertaining writeup of the GOP gubernatorial primary in Texas comes when Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) makes an offhand

A suit filed last week by state Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Fort Worth) is just one of many in federal courts around Texas now alleging the Texas Legislature’s new map

I missed this over the weekend, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China will not block shipments of rare earth elements to the United

As a few state attorneys general talk about filing lawsuits if health care reform passes, I’m increasingly convinced that passage of the bill will spark some

Every time some economy is screwed up these days, it’s a safe bet Goldman Sachs is involved.

The remaining members of the Iowa Supreme Court have proven they are immoral and “open enemies of God” by choosing Mark Cady as chief justice, and thus, all deserve to be impeached, according to conservative radio host Steve Deace and Republican Party of Iowa central committee member Wes Enos . Three Republican state legislators have begun drafting articles of impeachment for the remaining four members of the Iowa Supreme Court because of its 2009 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

The Iowa 175 bridge over the Missouri River remains in peril due to flooding as state officials continue to monitor and do what they can behind the scenes to limit further damage. Preliminary inspection work, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation, has revealed a deepening of the river channel around the bridge pier by as much as 42 feet, and serious scour and loss of embankment near the bridge abutment on the Iowa side has occurred

Chris Slattery, a former Operation Rescue organizer in the 1980s, said that the inaugural Summer of Mercy, which was held in Wichita, Kan., in 1991 to target

More on the Arab-American Institute’s forthcoming poll about U.S. attitudes toward Israel. I still haven’t seen the full poll, but I’ve gotten one detail of it.