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TransCanada was forced by another pumping station leak to shut down the first phase of the Keystone pipeline over the weekend, making it an even dozen times the pipeline has had to be shut down due to a leak in only its first year of operation. TransCanada Corp. has shut down its massive Keystone oil pipeline for the second time in less than a month after detecting a small leak at a pumping station in Kansas, the energy and pipeline giant said

In the abstract, this sounds like a terrible idea, but in this particular case, it might be worthy. Subscription-only Inside The Pentagon reports that Defense

Last month, TWI’s Mary Kane reported that mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were quietly slipping requirements into loan modification agreements that

U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack joined a bipartisan group of 16 members of Congress Thursday who are demanding an open and transparent process when a recently formed “super committee” on government spending begins meeting and negotiating.

To flesh something out about how Defense Secretary Bob Gates wants the services to stay in line during the upcoming budget battle on the Hill, in response to a

Though the Albuquerque teacher who surveyed his high school students on sexual experiences violated district policy on requesting sensitive information, he sought to address an issue that affects more New Mexican youth than those in most other states. New Mexico, together with states like Arkansas, Texas, and Mississippi, lead the country in teen pregnancy

After voters felled Ohio Governor John Kasich’s signature anti-collective-bargaining law yesterday, he responded with an assurance that the state wasn’t

First, Capt. Richard Phillips, the captured commander of the Maersk Alabama, is the bravest man in the world right now, having tried -- sadly unsuccessfully --

Robert Gates seeks a more humane way to apply Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Supreme Court is likely to move further to the right in the Obama era. Former

If they can stop the recovery from occurring, if they can create as much pain as possible, people will be angry and will not vote at all or will vote against those in the majority, Stabenow said. This is a very cynical political strategy.

Here’s The New York Times’ contribution to the what-in-the-world-was-this-series-of-CIA-’significant-actions’-disclosed-and-stopped-by Director-Leon-Panetta

The hearings are back underway ... Here’s Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), back in full effect. He wants to know about prosecutions for interrogators, which CIA

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at the press briefing today that Republicans pushing for hearings on the citizenship of American-born children are

In a post for the conservative blog True North , U.S. Rep

It’s difficult not to be skeptical here, but the Iranian regime is announcing that it’s reached a deal, brokered by Brazil, to send the majority of its uranium

The Justice Department has sworn in 23 new immigration judges, increasing the number of judges by about 10 percent in one day, according to a post Tuesday on

In a hilarious exchange between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a group a school kids at the Capitol today, we have this gem: Kid: On a

As a new administration comes to power, the lobbying landscape is changing in Washington. Politico has compiled a valuable field guide to the lobby shops that

David Lazarus at The Los Angeles Times asks a question I’ve been wondering about myself: What are some credit card companies thinking? Lazarus points

A group of prominent economists and historians -- including Nobel Prize-winner Joe Stiglitz and Laura Tyson, the head of the Council of Economic Advisers in the

Midday on Wednesday Nov. 25, one of the busiest travel times of the year, and journalists stuck in check-in lines at the airport frustratingly checking their