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A key administration official charged with overseeing the country’s offshore drilling pushed back yesterday against allegations that drilling inspectors in the

Giuliani’s decision not to run for Senate is great news terrible news for Gillibrand. After the brutal health care battle, senators are wary of tackling

In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama laid out a bold initiative to double the United States’ exports in five years, helping create

It’s a rhetorical gambit predicated on a mostly false hypothetical that pretty much assumes its conclusion: There’s a bomb set to go off but you don’t know

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman is filing live updates on the McChrystal-Eikenberry Afghanistan hearings; follow them here. Delegates to the Copenhagen summit will

Rep. Mark Critz (D-Pa.) managed to survive Tuesday’s Republican onslaught to win his first full term in the House. But it may also be his last: His district is likely to be eliminated by the Republican state government.

The U.S.-Mexico border is more secure than it’s ever been, according to current and former top border officials who appeared at a panel hosted by the Center

The former North Carolina senator kept himself in the spotlight as John Kerry’s running mate in 2004 and as a candidate for president in 2008. But his 2008 bid

Exit polls indicate that jobs and the economy were the top issues on the minds of voters on Tuesday when they trotted off to the polls. While climate change and

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their monthly jobs report, which estimated that 80,000 new non-farm jobs were created during October, and

Campaign finance reform advocates are still hoping that Congress will pass a bill that sheds light on the $126 million in undisclosed cash that was spent

<p>Monday kicked off this week’s Trade Show at WIREC 2008, anticipated to be the U.S.’s largest renewable energy expo/business conference yet. The White

As same-sex-marriage friends and foes gear up for another marriage battle in Maine in 2012, a soon-to-be released documentary about a 2009 voter referendum that

Three House members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus -- Reps. John Salazar (D-Colo.), Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas) and Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) -- lost their

Is the battle for millions of missing White House emails over? The Washington Post reports that a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the White House’s Office

UPDATED: 10:40 a.m. This article was amended with a correction* noted below. Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would

E.J. Dionne wonders if Pope Benedict XVI is more liberal than Obama. Pharmaceutical companies are using your dollars to lobby Congress. Calling released

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A pro-Planned Parenthood rally in New York City (Pic by WeNews, via Flickr ) Planned Parenthood has included Florida in its list of “states at risk” for the upcoming election.

According to The News Service of Florida , Gov. Rick Scott is taking inspiration from controversial education changes in Texas, and may be toying with the idea of bringing them to Florida

Texans filled the pews at Mt. Ararat Baptist Church in Houston Friday night, to join religious leaders and activist organizations in opposing “The