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Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, a Democrat, has refused to file an anti-health care mandate lawsuit, and called other AGs’ decisions to do so

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, just released the following statement: Recently disclosed legal memoranda from the former

ANCHORAGE -- While I was working on a piece about Gov. Sarah Palin’s energy policies, one local pointed me to the story of a town of about 300 residents on the

Yesterday, Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) accused banking giant JPMorgan Chase of violating a confidentiality agreement with one its customers, Susan Wones, who had

The Occupy Wall Street protests that started in New York and have now spread to cities including Chicago, Boston and San Francisco (and coming soon to Texas),

On Monday, the federal government filed a lawsuit seeking to block H.B. 56, Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law. In doing so, the Obama administration is

Here’s the latest research on just where all of the oil that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the BP oil spill went. According to

The announcement is the result of an Obama administration task force’s proposal -- first reported by The Washington Independent.

Photo: Chisholm’s Iron Man Statue; Source: Flickr, jimmywayne Minnesota’s Executive Council voted Wednesday for a six month delay on the lease of mineral rights on privately-held land in northeast Minnesota. A handful of non-ferrous mining companies are seeking the 77 leases , but landowners, some of whom attended Wednesday’s meeting, are unhappy with the process and the prospect of pollution by non-ferrous mining.

The 2010 budget outline unveiled by President Obama this morning projects $646 billion in revenue from a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions by 2019.

Hmm, so it appears that Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special envoy to Af-Pak, is going to be the first administration figure to explore the

Environmental groups battling to get the Cotter Mill uranium processing facility near Cañon City properly cleaned up applauded a decision late last week by a district court judge in Denver that allows their lawsuit to go forward.

In an interesting chain of events last week, “uterus” became a four-letter word on the Florida House floor. A group of pro-uterus insurrectionists have now leaped to the defense of the now-defenseless “uterus” via the Internet

Via Sara Murray of The Wall Street Journal, the American Bankruptcy Institute says that bankruptcies declined slightly between March and April ... but remain 15

Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress empowered to require Americans to buy health insurance, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) charged today. “I am seriously

Given that President Obama’s recently announced mortgage assistance program is only 2 percent of what he gave to banks for the mostly unsuccessful mortgage

The good news: Officially the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent in January, down from 10 percent in December. The bad news: That figure ignores

Although he’s not calling it torture anymore, according to Greg Sargent at The Plum Line, President Obama on Tuesday said that he is not opposed to a