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Americans for Prosperity conference drew 2,000 activists from around the country to Washington.

Fox News’ Iowa debate of Republican presidential hopefuls brought frequent clashes between Minnesota’s two candidates. Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty

Andrew Breitbart, who’s been absolutely unbowed by the James O’Keefe controversy -- quickly turning the story into one of media malpractice against

At least 9,000 people in 13 states were on AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists on Aug. 4; more than 3,700 of them live in Florida. # The Drug

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,

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

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.

Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) makes Dennis Blair run a right-wing gamut of questions on torture. Should the intelligence community be on the offense in the war on

Having lost his strongest (theoretical) 2010 GOP Senate primary opponent, former Club for Growth President Pat Toomey blasts out a statement about former

Former Massachusetts Gov.

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, told The Chronicle of Higher

According to a lawyer with the respected British human rights group Reprieve, abuse of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has actually gotten worse

The bleak housing numbers are raising troubling questions about whether lenders and servicers are genuinely willing and able to do loan modifications on a large scale.

Several reports out today detail the bacterial infection behind a string of dolphin deaths that have occurred since last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.