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YUMA, Ariz.-- Sen. John McCain’s seemingly contradictory views on immigration reflect his need to make inroads with Latino voters without alienating the GOP base.

Andrew Young’s tell-all biography of John Edwards, hitting shelves next week, is surging in one Amazon.com category in particular. #1 in Conspiracy

Senate aides, in a background briefing today, laid out a number of the provisions that will be included in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy

Seven major civil rights and open government organizations today sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees urging them to pass

Via Ezra Klein, Third Way has a great proposal (PDF) for an itemized receipt to go along with each taxpayers’ return: Third Way writes, An electorate

The old Florida capitol (Pic by Diligent Terrier, via Wikimedia Commons) Among the long list of federal health grants the state has shunned in past year was a small award that would have “reduced the burden of cancer.” A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Health tells The Florida Independent that budget authority was denied for a competitive grant “awarded to Florida beginning October 2010 for $175,000 yearly.” The DP10-1017 “Demonstrating the Capacity of Comprehensive Cancer Control Programs to Implement Policy and Environmental Cancer Control Interventions” grant was a “five-year grant built on strengths of existing statewide Cancer Control and Research Advisory Council (C-CRAB) working with four regional cancer collaboratives to reduce the burden of cancer,” according to the Department of Health. The grant did not require any contributions from the state. The grant was just one of many that has been rejected by the state.

Via Newswire, a study released today shows that immigration laws are not targeting the most dangerous illegal immigrants. The study, conducted by the law

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), questioning Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her role in the case of Ricci v. deStefano, this morning repeated the

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill which left 11 million gallons of black petroleum deposited on a pristine Alaska coastline. The Daily

There was a lot of encouraging rhetoric for defense reformers from President Obama in his press conference tonight. Asked about the politics of cutting defense,

The American Civil Liberties Union will file a brief tomorrow urging the federal court to suppress evidence gathered using torture, which the government wants

Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon drilling site for more than two months now -- but TWI’s video team has done us the favor

Via Jessica Grose, Alexandra Zavis has a frightening story in today’s Los Angeles Times about how the U.S. military is now sponsoring a “Daughters of

Late last year, TWI wrote about a landmark lawsuit in Cleveland, in which housing lawyers were trying to stop banks from dumping their rundown and neglected

Even though things don’t look so good for former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) bid to keep Al Franken from being seated as Minnesota’s junior senator, Coleman’s

The Obama administration is putting a new plan in place at Afghanistan’s Bagram air field detention facility to bring indefinite detentions there -- a practice

McCain says he won’t support Crist if he runs as an independent. And Cantor won’t support him under any circumstances. The IRS is investigating the use of