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With midterms a day away and early voting already underway in a number of states, conservatives and anti-illegal immigration groups are claiming that large

BIRMINGHAM, Mich.--At last, a press conference. Late in the afternoon, Sen. John McCain, flanked by his wife Cindy, wearing a sling after a wrist injury

The Department of Justice announced today that Roy Belfast Jr., aka Chuckie Taylor, son of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, has been sentenced to 97

While feminists worried that the economic stimulus package would neglect them, a quiet but concerted pressure campaign to get women’s interests in the bill was underway.

Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm

The state of Alaska filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration yesterday to overturn the federal moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

From the annals of in case you missed it, here’s some news on the energy front from TWI’s broad lame duck preview story this morning. Senate Majority

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Florida Cattlemen’s Association filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s numeric nutrient criteria , a set of standards that would limit the amount of waste in Florida waterways. # An article published in Drovers Cattle Network said that the groups are seeking two specific things from the court: # “First, we ask the court to set aside and hold unlawful the letter and rule because they are arbitrary, capricious, go beyond EPA’s statutory authority and are in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act,” said Thies.

Remember about a month ago, when President-elect Barack Obama announced his foreign policy team, and it looked as if there was going to be a shift of emphasis

Toxin hound Suemedha Sood gets the first in-depth interview with an EPA scientist who was suspiciously removed from a toxin panel after the chemical industry

Spencer Ackerman filed a great book report today on "Architect of Global Jihad." Norwegian terrorism scholar Brynjar Lia outlines what the

The Family Research Council launched radio ads in North Carolina on Thursday in support of a constitutional amendment that would ban marriage rights for

The tax cuts compromise brokered by President Obama and congressional Republicans will cost more than the 2009 economic stimulus, according to estimates from

BP will have to pay royalties on all oil and gas that it captures from the Macondo well, which has been leaking thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) penned an editorial for the Huffington Post Monday that urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to create rules regulating

It’s called walling by the CIA. As described in the International Committee of the Red Cross report obtained by Mark Danner, this technique involves placing

A new Pew Research Center poll gives us a clearer picture of where the country stands on global warming. According to the poll, the country’s stance on global