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So the budget is out. But where’s the roughly $150 million needed for the Obama administration to buy the Thomson Correction Center from Illinois? That’s the

The North Korean regime will indict two American journalists from Current TV who had been reporting on North Korean refugees in China. After holding them for

Two polls -- Rasmussen and a private poll by Tony Fabrizo -- show Marco Rubio gaining a double-digit lead on Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the GOP primary for

Wasting no time, the House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to mark up its credit card reform bill next Wednesday, according to a Democratic aide.

While Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has stripped out most provisions of the $85 billion jobs bill proposed yesterday by Finance Committee leaders, the majority

On Sunday, TWI’s David Weigel chatted with The Root’s Dayo Olopade on Bloggingheads.tv, discussing the Super Bowl, snow, New Orleans politics, Tea Parties and

The League of Conservation Voters today released its 2008 National Environmental Scorecard, which rates members of Congress on energy and environmental

Zachary Roth has been all over the story of a Florida Tea Party leader who sent a racist photo of President Obama as a witch doctor to a Tea Party listserv.

After a spate of requests by Democrats and campaign finance groups for an IRS investigation of a number of section 501(c) organizations accused of abusing their

Doing damage control in the wake of Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s “senior moment” during last night’s nationally televised debate, in which he cast about for full minutes in search of a government agency he could vow to slash, Team Perry is spinning the gaffe as a folksy human flub, recalling episodes of high-profile mental drifting by Presidents Obama, Reagan and Ford. Staffers blasted out a fundraising email, asking supporters what department of the federal government they would cut if they were president

Monday’s much-anticipated Palmetto Freedom Forum, held in Columbia, S.C., was an opportunity for the country’s leading anti-gay-marriage group, National

President Obama called on Congress to repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military last night. The path to doing so runs through the Senate Armed

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has taken his case against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the public, explaining why he plans to vote against a nominee

Soon, the House plans to vote on a sweeping child-nutrition bill. The Senate passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a deficit-neutral bill providing $4.5

Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), who apologized shortly after the 2008 election for comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler, is going back to that well. The Athens

According to a survey released by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (known as NACCHO), 55 percent of all local health departments across the country had to trim down or completely eliminate at least one program in their department. Florida’s local health departments, in particular, suffered severe budget cuts this year

If all we’re doing is exporting Guantanamo to Thomson for purposes of military commissions and indefinite detention, said one civil liberties advocate, we’re very strongly opposed to that.

Members of Occupy Detroit have worked with local businesses to secure a multi-story office building, a store front for sign-making, a warehouse, and a renovated 50-unit hotel that will serve as housing for protesters. Occupy Detroit spokesperson Lee Gaddis said the group plans to pack up the Grand Circus Park encampment and move into donated space where it will be able to focus on political work

A majority of people imprisoned by the federal government for felonies in 2011 have been Hispanic, according to a report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The

The U.S. could face a spat with Mexican government officials over a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana, which Mexican President Felipe Calderón

Women should screen for breast cancer less frequently and at a later age, according to new recommendations issued Monday by a well-respected preventative

Describing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tendency to appoint her friends to high-level state jobs, The New York Times wrote last month that The Wasilla High