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A recent report released by Family Health International, the Guttmacher Institute and the University of New Mexico shows that the United States has seen in a rise in the number of women who use an intrauterine device (IUD) as a method of birth control in the past few years.

Two weeks after receiving a standing ovation from a largely Latino crowd at an anti-abortion rally in Los Angeles, Perry was met with a “tepid” and

It was announced Wednesday that Colorado is one nine states to be eligible to apply for the third round of Race to the Top funds to augment state local funding for Colorado schools. “Today’s announcement is good news – potentially even very good news – for Colorado,” Gov

This will shock only those who’ve never had to haggle with an insurance company, but a former employee of an insurance giant gave damning testimony yesterday

As a member of the U.S. House Armed Services committee, Colorado Republican Rep

The Interior Department just sent over its statement reacting to a judge’s decision today to uphold a Bush-era rule making it easier for mining companies to

The Minnesota Independent covered a variety of issues this week, from in-depth looks at U.S.

A recent surge in pharmacy applications in the state of Florida could spell trouble for the state’s notorious prescription drug problem.

An HIV-positive 30-year-old resident of Minnesota has been convicted by a jury of attempted first degree assault for allegedly failing to use a condom during sex. United Press International reports that while the jury believed the man had disclosed his HIV-positive status to his partner, it was obligated to find him guilty of the attempted assault charge. The man’s attorney has said he will challenge the guilty verdict.

On national security issues, Kagan is something of a blank slate -- but her stance on executive power offers a window into her views.

<p>Remember all that stuff about benchmarks in Iraq? And how&mdash;huzzah!&mdash;the Iraqi government had spent nearly 25 percent of its 2007

Yesterday Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) unveiled an early version of a bill to reauthorize the Early and Secondary Education Act, currently known as No Child Left

Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether

Education and immigrant advocacy organizations are calling on President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to stop the deportation of young undocumented immigrants who would be eligible for the DREAM Act. # The act, which was reintroduced in Congress this week , would grant unauthorized immigrants who entered the U.S.

The Republican National Committee has made available two lengthy voter surveys conducted in New Jersey and Virginia as Republican candidates were winning

The Food Research and Action Center released a report (pdf) Thursday on rates of food hardship over the year 2010, finding that 28.3 percent of New Mexico

For House Democrats, who left Washington last week without acting on legislation to expand White House spying powers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has a

It used to be that answering a question posed by one of Iowa’s lesser known publications following a small town event held little danger of negative national attention. Tim Pawlenty is learning that is no longer the case. On Wednesday, The Iowa Independent highlighted an brief exchange in the town of Boone between Pawlenty and Douglas Burns of the Carroll Daily Times Herald .