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LANSING — The Michigan Department of Community Health issued a letter to local health departments Friday which “strongly encourages” those public bodies to cease using Client Acknowledgment forms that are legally inaccurate. The documents are used ostensibly to inform newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons of their legal responsibility under Michigan law to inform sexual partners of their status or face possible felony charges

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Though they have accepted billions in federal bailout funds, banks are not required to ensure foreclosures don’t drag down surrounding communities.

Afghanistan’s defense minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, can return home from this week’s U.S-Afghan-Pakistani meetings in Washington with full swagger. His

Liberals cried betrayal when House Democrats altered how underwater homeowners can seek help in bankruptcy court, but a quiet movement in the Senate could mean much higher hurdles for mortgage holders.

Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury — the phenomenon is an actual fact. All of the industrialized countries, especially

As expected, the U.S. Senate today confirmed David Ogden to be the deputy attorney general of the United States, the second highest-ranking position in the

Republican 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum sat down with Douglas Burns, co-publisher of The Carroll Daily Times Herald and an alum and frequent contributor to The Iowa Independent, to discuss Catholicism in relation to the GOP, rival Michele Bachmann and, of course, some of the social conservative issues well known to those who have seen Santorum on the Iowa stump. Santorum, 53, was elected to the U.S. House in 1990 at age 32, and from 1995 to 2007, served in the Senate.

The end users have been basically used by the major investment banks, says Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

This statement was just released by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele: “I am deeply disappointed in the decision made by the state

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (Pic by Fibonacci Blue, via Wikimedia Commons) As state legislatures prepare for new sessions, anti-abortion groups are getting ready to push state-level bills that would force women to hear a fetal heartbeat before undergoing an abortion. The bills would be a version of U.S. Rep

The Washington Post’s editorial today arguing for prosecution only of those who went well beyond the often-extreme measures authorized by the memos that

On the heels of Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ (R-Ga.) impassioned plea to Defense Secretary Bob Gates to consider production of the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor as part of a

Joe You lie Wilson may have done Obama a big favor. And not just Obama; Wilson’s opponent raised $100,000 overnight. But Erick Erickson calls Wilson a

You would think, given that Congress just passed a nearly $800 billion stimulus bill and there is already talk of a second stimulus bill in the near future,

Add Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) to the roster of Republicans hedging a bit on whether the party can repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Petri

Following up on my earlier post about whether the Obama Justice Department really ought to be representing John Yoo -- the notorious former Office of Legal

You’d think that, granted the bully pulpit, the Obama administration’s secretary of transportation might actually use it when approached by Congress for advice

As we’ve pointed out, passage of the House climate change proposal last month wouldn’t have happened without the liberal sponsors first bowing to the demands of

Flint could become the first city to get taken over by the state since Gov.

You knew it was coming. Marcy Wheeler and Greg Sargent report that Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, will open

There’s a dispute inside the Obama administration about who should have the authority to appoint and direct the chief intelligence officer at oversees outposts.