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This time in Memphis. In fact, city officials are so fired up that they’ve filed a lawsuit charging the mortgage-loan giant with discrimination. The New York

Here’s an interesting story from The Washington Post about what key Obama administration officials and would-be officials make of potential openings to Iran,

There will be no cloture vote on a $245 billion proposal to prevent pay cuts to Medicare doctors, according to the office of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who

Another ad from Crossroads GPS, a conservative group affiliated with Karl Rove, has hit the Florida airwaves — this one directed at Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. The ad is part of a $20 million campaign launched by Crossroads, which includes attack ads in several states. The group spent $15 million on attack ads during the 2010 election cycle.

Republican Party chairmen from the four early nomination states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — joined forces to condemn the efforts by any state to violate national party rules by moving their nomination contests outside of the existing nomination calendar. The prepared statements issued by each are as follows: Matt Strawn, Iowa — “The four santioned, early states have been very clear that we will move together, if necessary, to ensure order as outlined in RNC rules

Jeremy Jacobs reports that rumors of Gen. David Petraeus going to Iowa to drum up support for a Republican presidential campaign are greatly exaggerated. From

State Sen. Judith Zaffirini (D-Laredo), chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee and leading critic of recent higher education reforms, released a

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) In the wake of the federal government’s decision to overrule the FDA’s request to expand access to over-the-counter emergency contraception to women under the age of 17, a new report shows that even some women 17 and older are unable to obtain the morning after pill when they need it. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that about 20 percent of 17-year-olds who called in to a pharmacy to ask for emergency contraception that day were unable to receive it.

Here’s my first stab at what I hope will be an ongoing and ever-improving feature: a sample of stories from conservative media that the Right has been talking

According to the latest Terrorism Focus, a useful compendium of counterterrorism tidbits put together by the Jamestown Foundation, Iraqi jihadis are crediting

A study by the Wisconsin Advertising Project (pdf), released today, details the McCain and Obama campaigns’ ad spending last week. Overall, Sen. Barack Obama

LANSING — A policy directing Michigan health care providers to provide a potentially life saving intervention for people exposed to HIV through consensual or non-consensual sexual activity or drug use has still not been issued by the Michigan Department of Community Health. “We are in the process of finalizing both the n-PEP document and our communication to local health departments regarding ‘client acknowledgment’ forms,” said Kelly Niebel, acting spokesperson for the MDCH. She said the new n-PEP policy should be finalized sometime this month

In Afghanistan, seven minutes after tweeting about a meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) decided to tweet this: Here’s a

Momentum is building for Democrats to try one last time to pass a version of the DISCLOSE Act once Congress resumes, this time without the extraneous (and some

When Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who head the committees charged with writing health reform legislation this year, vowed a few weeks

Plenty of politicians have accused the Obama administration of playing politics with immigration policy. But even within Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

New report says Obama must push harder to negotiate return of almost 100 Gitmo prisoners still held without charge.

Via Angry Bear, here’s Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist, on Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson Jr. celebrating the bailout plan he presented to

It’s amazing the vitriol that the community-organizing group ACORN has inspired among the right in this election cycle. In recent days, the National Review

American Express cards may no longer be used to purchase medical marijuana. The company has given no reason for the prohibition.

The Associated Press just reworked its earlier piece stemming from a morning interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. No longer

Under the current proposal, new construction could consume three times as much funding as public transportation.