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Today marks the deadline for Capitol Hill lawmakers to file their third-quarter campaign finance disclosures with the Federal Election Commission, but don’t

That’s a shocking account about Steve Kappes, then the powerful associate deputy CIA director for operations, provided by The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein in a

Rep. Ed Whitfield (R), who represents Webster County, Ky., where two miners were killed in a roof collapse Wednesday, has posted a statement reacting to the

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) challenged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today to release details of bonuses given to executives of companies that have

The National Automobile Dealers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed a lawsuit challenging California’s right to set higher automobile

It looks unlikely that the next president will prosecute Bush administration officials for potential war crimes, to the frustration of some critics.

It’s hard to imagine now, but it wasn’t all that long ago when it could be hard to find average folks who knew or cared that much about Fannie Mae and Freddie

A new study out today from the University of North Carolina Center for Community Capital provides more evidence that deregulatory zealots have a lot to answer

It turns out residents of Mattoon, Ill., aren’t too happy with the Department of Energy’s plans to can the embattled FutureGen project and replace it with a

Politico has the details of the ongoing meetings between environmentalists and electric utilities. And the prospects for a compromise don’t look good. So far,

A marijuana plant (Pic by LancerenoK, via Fotopedia) State Rep. Jeff Clemens , D-Lake Worth, filed a joint resolution last week that would allow Floridians to vote on whether they want to legalize medical marijuana in the state during the 2012 election

Somehow I missed the forest of President Obama’s Iraq visit for the trees. Peter Juul corrects: At the end of his European trip yesterday, President Barack

Excellent rundown from James Besser in the Jewish Week about the coterie of Christian and Jewish peace-process rejectionists ready to support Benjamin

In a recession, can President Obama make the case for immigration?

Last night, the U.S. Senate attempted to move on the House’s version of a war-funding bill, providing much-needed funds to the Pentagon for Afghanistan and Iraq

Some Mexican politicians are not happy with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments yesterday comparing Mexico’s drug cartel problem to an insurgency and

Other judges will not be bound by the decision, but there are reasons for advocates to be hopeful.

When Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office declined to rule out a 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for president , religious right leaders responded with glee at what they say could be the next Ronald Reagan — except “swap boots for pumps.” Bachmann has long had a strong relationship with the religious right, and one of the first Iowa Republican caucus polls to include Bachmann show her taking away from two traditional religious right favorites: Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee.

The recent news that the Obama administration is considering sending some Guantanamo detainees to a maximum-security prison in Michigan, plus all the attention

The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee, which makes key interest-rate decisions, announced it plans to take no action this go-around. The pace of

Personhood USA co-founder Keith Mason (Pic via personhoodusa.com) Undaunted by the failure of similar initiatives across the country, Virginia legislator Bob Marshall has introduced a bill that would define life as beginning at the moment of conception.