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It appears that the the latest round of negotiations between American Crystal Sugar and roughly 1,300 locked-out union workers have not produced an agreement.

In his most forceful comments on health care reform since he arrived at the White House, President Obama today made his case for including a government-backed

After a grueling back and forth between a handful of state legislators, the state of Florida will finally accept the home visiting grants allocated through the Affordable Care Act. During a Joint Legislative Budget Commission meeting today , a small group of state representatives and state senators debated the necessity and overall importance of the grants

Speaking at an Orlando fundraiser dinner for Texas-based Heroic Media, an anti-abortion group that relies heavily on controversial advertising campaigns, Florida resident and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke mostly about the importance of promoting alternatives to abortion

The FDIC’s attempt at mass restructurings of mortgages comes with risks -- and insiders are divided on the wisdom of the plan.

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So much for the most-transparent-administration-ever stuff. Remember the Democrats on the House intelligence committee’s effort to open briefings on covert

It seems strange to point out something that’s above the banner on Drudge, but this statement by Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) is sort of unheard of, post-1936. I

Noting that the Progressive Policy Institute is holding a panel on the defense budget with Rep. John Spratt (D-N.C. S.C.), the chairman of the House Budget

Forgive me if I’m going over ground other people have covered, but as I was going through the 2005 Office of Legal Counsel torture memos for something else, I

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) is scheduled to announce his retirement today, according to multiple media outlets. His decision complicates Democratic efforts to

Glenn Reynolds responds: SORRY, STILL NOT SEEING THE ANEURYSM CONNECTION. Weigel’s snark notwithstanding, it was a weak point. Eh, I’ll grant this. As

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In a recent story on NPR about the Obama administration’s ramped-up enforcement of the FACE Act, Operation Rescue President Troy Newman says the enforcement is really just a “political tool” to shut down abortion protesters. # Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group that aims to shut down women’s health clinics that provide abortions, has been at the center of anti-abortion activism for quite some time. # NPR reports : # The Obama Justice Department has been taking a more aggressive approach against people who block access to abortion clinics, using a 1994 law to bring cases in greater numbers than its predecessor.

It’s been about two weeks since President Obama officially announced that Chris Hill was his choice to become the next ambassador to Iraq. He’ll have a big job,

President-elect Barack Obama’s top appointments shouldn’t be ignored, but here are crucial sub-cabinet jobs critical to the success of his foreign-policy agenda.

One of the goals of the unanimous Republican no vote on the stimulus package Wednesday was producing news analyses like this one, from The New York

The conservative GOP leader from Arizona blurts out that Rush Limbaugh is a television personality. The journalistic ballet, of switching on Limbaugh’s show