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Laura Rozen -- writing on her personal blog -- publishes a surprising email she got from Iran. Who’s the foreign agent now? The Arab, Israeli, Palestinian

The Wall Street Journal has picked a fight with local Chambers of Commerce in Tennessee over their hesitance to support a state voucher program that recently

In the late 1950’s, the federal government began investigating reports that radiation from uranium ore mines in the Navajo Nation was causing lung cancer

President Obama’s decision today to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, at a cost of $500 million, has fallen

That was fast. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) just announced that the Senate Armed Services Committee, which he chairs, will hold confirmation hearings Thursday for

The Wisconsin supreme court election held yesterday is still too close to call.

The primary beneficiary of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a company that wants to refine tar sands oil into diesel and ship it to Europe while avoiding taxes, according to a new report by Oil Change International . TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline would move diluted bitumen — oil from the tar sands region of Northern Alberta, Canada — across the U.S. to refineries in the Houston area at the rate of 700,000 barrels per day

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The news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery yesterday for early-stage pancreatic cancer has already led to much speculation about

The head of the new consumer financial protection bureau will be one of the most important figures in the financial world. This has led to serious speculation

As Daphne wrote earlier, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) reportedly told Charlotte Dennett, writing for Consortiumnews.com, that even he thinks his proposed truth

The Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative advocacy group whose executive director weighed in on the Supreme Court debate in my piece this morning, has

Sudeep Reddy of The Wall Street Journal interviews James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis -- a voting member of the Federal Open

DAVENPORT — The walk to the third floor of the Scott County Courthouse is a study in stark contrasts.

Former Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), a candidate for governor who delayed his resignation from the House to vote against health care reform, was also fleeing an

The move was cheered by abortion rights advocates, but it may have eroded the support of some moderate Democrats for the underlying bill -- leaving questions about whether another abortion provision will emerge later in the Senate debate.

There’s no sugarcoating this. Israel is looking like a country that is quickly losing its mind. Consider this statement: In an interview Tuesday, Ambassador

A congressional hearing Wednesday by the House oversight committee promised to assess the evidence on abstinence-only sex education. That

Unsatisfied with how Maryland’s religious community campaigned against same-sex-marriage legislation that died in the state House of Delegates in 2011, Del.

Political communicators will seize any tool to reach voters. While email and blogs do heavy lifting on the campaign trail, both parties are experimenting