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The state of Arizona cannot require documents proving citizenship for new voter registration, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. The court ruled

People who haven’t voted in six years or have received drivers licenses in other states will be subject to extra scrutiny under a package of Republican election reforms introduced this week. Sen.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) has fired an aide that posted an anti-gay comment on a blog in the run-up to a vote on overturning the military’s don’t ask, don’t

Obama seeks to cultivate ties with groups within the American Jewish and Arab-American communities to support a two-state solution.

It would be a mistake for Napolitano to resign. The GOP tries to score political points off the failed plane bombing. Cheney says Obama pretends we

Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is weathering mounting allegations of sexual harassment linked so far only to his tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association, allegations tied to tens of thousands of dollars in payouts to his accusers. Republican voters, however, are mostly dismissing the story . They’ve filled Cain’s campaign coffers with more than $2 million since the story broke and they booed the CNBC debate moderators who tried to bring up the scandal during last night’s debate in Michigan.

Brian Beutler and Zachary Roth have the background on the man who murdered a security guard at the Holocaust Museum. Von Brunn, apparently a World War II vet,

This afternoon, the Federal Open Markets Committee, the board of the Federal Reserve that determines monetary policy and interest rates, announced it has

Last night voters in Illinois’ heavily Democratic 5th congressional district voted in a primary for candidates to replace former Rep. Rahm Emanuel, now the

Last week, protesters with Occupy Tampa and Occupy Orlando were arrested.

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of

Despite the media and political attention paid to strategic default, we actually don’t know that much about it. The phenomenon is as old as the Great

Speaking to the graduating class of 2010 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, President Obama laid out the broad themes of the National Security Strategy

The Justice Department informed a federal district court Wednesday that it was no longer seeking to rely on coerced and tortured evidence in the habeas corpus

The White House announced Friday that it will nominate Thomas M.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has sent a letter to Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the head of the Banking Committee and the architect of the financial

At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim reports that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Greg Meeks (D-N.Y.) are attempting to insert an insurer-friendly change into

Michael Calderone recaps an amusing spat between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party’s

Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, is aiming to bring it home today. In Canton, Ohio, he will deliver what aides call the campaign’s seminal closing

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVIEW