Breaking News

The Project on Government Oversight has just learned that one of its sources for exposing apparent acts of physical and sexual harassment by a State Department

It has been 44 days since Congress let federally extended unemployment benefits lapse for 300,000 workers per week. Now, more than 2.1 million have lost the

NPR’s Howard Berkes and Frank Langfitt have spent weeks on the ground in southern West Virginia, the site of last month’s deadly blast at Massey’s Upper Big

A U.S. Travel Association commissioned study of the Pure Michigan ad campaign found that tourists from out of state spent $6.4 billion in Michigan last year, creating thousands of jobs. After inconsistent promotion efforts for decades, the Pure Michigan® state promotion campaign began regionally in 2006 and went national in 2009

As Wall Street prepares to dole out billions of dollars in 2009 bonuses, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has his eyes on one particular payment of $2.8 million.

La Crosse, WISC. -- Watching Sen. Barack Obama’s rally here this morning, I noticed that while his surrogates attacked the Republican nominee, Obama largely

Rep. Keith Ellison gave an impassioned speech on the House floor Thursday evening criticizing conservatives for only seeking liberty for some

High school students from Lansing area schools walked out of class this morning and gathered at the Capitol to join the protests against cuts in education funding and anti-union actions by the governor and the legislature. About 150 students were at the Capitol building by noon, apparently responding to a call for a walkout by a student at Lansing Sexton high school who sent an email around earlier this week saying: We are doing this because Governor Rick Snyder plans on cutting at least $500 per student.

Late last month, two young coal miners were killed in western Kentucky when a roof collapsed at the Dotiki coal mine, a non-union operation owned by Tulsa,

Immigration and Customs Enforcement union leaders said Thursday that a policy laid out by the agency is a “law enforcement nightmare” developed by the Obama administration to “win votes at the expense of sound and responsible law enforcement policy.” The union, AFGE National Council 118-ICE , that issued the release “represents approximately 7,600 bargaining unit employees in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement throughout the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, and Guam, with over 2,300 members.” The union is a member of the American Federation of Government Employees , a national affiliate of the AFL-CIO.

In 1966, Thomas Crocker developed the concept of cap-and-trade to reduce pollution through trading on the market. But he thinks it was better suited to acid rain than it would be to global warming.

<p>Asked by Brad Sherman of California if he’ll plan or execute a withdrawal plan in the case of a president elected on an antiwar platform, Petraeus

Deborah Mell, a Chicago Democrat that serves in the Illinois House of Representatives, married her seven-year partner, Christin Baker, during a civil ceremony in Davenport last week. As a legislator, Mell had fought for full civil marriage rights for gays and lesbians in her home state, but the body ultimately only granted civil union benefits. According to reporter Carol Marin of the Chicago Sun-Times , Mell has become the first high-profile elected official in Illinois to publicly enter into a same-sex marriage

We all knew it was coming. It was just a matter of when. After the election, it took all of six days -- a surprisingly long time, actually -- before a

Leading up to the Summer of Mercy 2.0, a nine-day protest against Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s late-term abortion practice in Germantown, Md., which begins Saturday

Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president. Newt Gingrich Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich leveled particularly harsh criticism at Obama, saying he’s personally hurt the economy by attacking job creators.

So, between health care reform and the New START nuclear reduction treaty with Russia, this is kind of a big week for President Obama. And you know who agrees?

Following up on my story this morning, here is the audio of David Koch, the libertarian billionaire who’s also chairman of the board of Americans for

Speaking of businesses making money from the downturn, The New York Times reports today on how the real estate industry is trying to cash in on the glut in

On Thursday, the Republican Party of Iowa announced that the all-important Ames Straw Poll will be held Aug. 13, 2011. The Straw Poll has traditionally been

The Virginia Republican Party has a lot on its shoulders this year — a failure to take back the governor’s mansion will slow the GOP momentum going in to the

The Washington Post previews a speech that top Obama counterterrorism aide John Brennan will give later this morning at the Center for Strategic and