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American Elect , the non-party online presidential nominating organization, has made it onto the ballot in Colorado, easily hitting the 10,000 resident signatures it needed.

First, as Art points out this afternoon, two recent articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association charge that the pharmaceutical giant withheld

Thirty minutes after she was initially supposed to arrive at the Iowa State Fair for a soapbox appearance, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) kept her message to supporters — and would-be hecklers — short and sweet

The government’s state secrets argument was back in full force yesterday, this time being made by the Justice Department before the Ninth Circuit Court of

The Pentagon general counsel, July 7: Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson suggested to the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the difficulties

Ann Romney, wife of GOP presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, will be in Marion at noon on Wednesday to attend a luncheon at the Linn County GOP Headquarters alongside newly selected Iowa Senate candidate Cindy Golding.

There was little improvement in the unemployment picture this week as the latest Department of Labor report shows new weekly unemployment claims virtually unchanged from last week at 428,000, only slightly less than last week’s 429,000. This was the 12th straight week that new unemployment claims have been over 400,000, leaving the four-week average at 426,250.

The Senate Armed Services Committee might still not have Gen. David Petraeus’s eight-minute statement on the military’s ban on open gay service, but tomorrow

The headlines about stress tests released Thursday seemed sort of reassuring, after all the concern about the banking system going under. Ten banks need more

Just to get an idea of how much money flows through the education industry, a report by the investment banking firm Berkery Noyes calculates that in the first

The Supreme Court returned the case of a Muslim Pakistani immigrant to a lower court, leaving questions about how specific a claim against a government official must be for it to be heard.

Vice Adm. Robert Harward arrived in Afghanistan this fall to take over detention operations for Gen. Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal’s explicit instructions for

Every city has its own variation of political scandal. In Los Angeles, it’s usually about complicated land grabs and water. Many people view

In a move that’s sure to dismay some of President Obama’s faithful, the new administration today stood up in a federal appeals court and reiterated the Bush

If there’s a story whose facts are verifiable, and it generates interest, and it comes from Satan himself, I will take it and I will pay him a reporting fee, Tucker Carlson said.

Rep. Michele Bachmann was grilled by the hosts of several Sunday morning talk shows about her views on gay and lesbian Americans

DENVER--Tammy Duckworth -- Iraq war veteran, Illinois Veterans Affairs director, amputee and netroots favorite -- is smacking John McCain silly. She’s talking

Amid the Democrats’ boostering and the Republicans’ assaults on the final stimulus package, almost no one is focusing on a key part of the bill that will be

By mailing them doctored Hawaiian vacation brochures with Denver pasted over Honolulu, and sending a delegation of Hooters waitresses to Democratic National Committee H.Q. in Washington as Denver goodwill ambassadors, master Republican manipulator Karl Rove allegedly tricked Dem muckety-mucks into choosing the Mile High City as the site of their 2008 convention.