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In recent years, several states have clamped down on payday lending. But banks that are subject to federal regulation have evaded the limits.

Spin it all you want, but Democrat Ted Deutch was strongly favored last night to win the race to replace Florida’s Robert Wexler. Pennsylvania’s upcoming

The New York Times has the details of the funding program to support Pakistani troops in counterinsurgency that Gen. David Petraeus and Undersecretary of

Spencer Ackerman gives us the run down on the implications for Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s comments to Der Spiegel magazine.

Ever since Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson mused that the Obama administration had the power to detain people acquitted at trial of terrorism charges --

Jim DeMint threatens to halt almost all Senate action. Joe Biden thinks the Democratic base should stop whining. Dmitri Medvedev fires the mayor of

Tom Ricks gets an interview with Gen. David Petraeus that mostly featured Petraeus attempting to avoid making news. But this was funny: : You keep on saying

The Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived in Michigan with encampments in Lansing and Grand Rapids. Since Friday activists in Lansing have camped out in downtown Reutter Park despite a city ordinance that prohibits use of the park after 10 pm without written permission.

Well, if the Republican establishment didn’t have enough problems already with likely presidential nominee John McCain, enter a 40-year-old blond lobbyist named

The group behind the National Tea Party Convention fires off an e-mail to its members, beseeching them to start recall efforts of members who voted aye on

From The Michigan Messenger: Rep. Bart Stupak has reconsidered earlier legislation that would have given several acres of Coast Guard property in Cheboygan

The University of South Florida logo (Pic via cee.eng.usf.edu) The State University System of Florida’s Board of Governors will meet tomorrow at Florida Atlantic University to vote on USF Polytechnic’s request to split off from USF Main, and become an independent campus. In a letter sent to State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan, state Sen. Mike Fasano has asked that the board to not approve the campus at this time.

Here’s some video from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) anti-health care reform tea party on Capitol Hill today. Bachmann distributed copies of the health care

Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) announced Thursday that the Michigan Senate Judiciary would review statute of limitations provisions in Michigan law with an eye towards increasing them. The announcement came after Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III announced a suspect in the 2000 killing of 24-year-old Brandon D’Annunzio could not be charged because of the statute of limitations on manslaughter, reports the State News.

After nearly a year of evasions, Karl Rove has finally-- at least in a written reply to a GOP congressman-- categorically denied involvement in the

Though members of his campaign quit in droves Thursday, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich pledged to keep his presidential bid alive in an address to the Republican Jewish Coalition Sunday night in Los Angeles. Gingrich spoke about foreign policy, specifically about Israel

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory in the Delaware GOP primary, Richard Pildes takes up two questions: Do political primaries fuel polarization and

The Transportation Security Administration’s new post-Northwest Airlines Flight 253 rules, per The Washington Post: All travelers flying to the United States

GQ has some striking new images from the campaign trail, snapped by photographer Jeff Riedel over the past nine months. A GQ staffer tells me they were going

In what The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim calls a big boost for climate change, Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and John McCain (D-Ariz.) today endorsed the