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With Judge Timothy Black of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio expected to deliver a ruling on the Susan B. Anthony List’s request for a

Oh, man. I could be missing something. But I can’t remember a White House response to a GOP legislator as straight-up harsh as what spokesman Nick Shapiro told

Hillary Clinton’s never looked better, writes essayist and friend-of-the-site Anne Taylor Fleming. But is perseverance always a good thing?

Playing off of our story today on yesterday’s TARP oversight hearing, here’s a fascinating exchange between Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the highest ranking

Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) is raising money for a legal defense fund to fight the numerous ethics charges against him. In his appeal he blames Citizens for

DHS passes along the talking points from the in-progress meeting between Secretary Janet Napolitano and the American Legion, which was called in response to the

Legislators may have concerns about the use of chemical dispersants to break apart oil in the Gulf, but testing from the Environmental Protection Agency

Obama’s executive order strengthening the Freedom of Information Act, issued on his second day in office, signaled his intent to open up the federal government to greater public accountability. The harder part will come in delivering results, especially at the CIA.

In 2009, ICE imprisoned 369,483 immigrant detainees -- more than twice the number it held in 1999.

Despite assurances from government officials that the recession is gradually loosening its grip on the U.S., statistics released today by Zillow, Inc. paint a

Former Minnesota governor and Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, who has taken some heat in the past for his seeming unwillingness to criticize his Republican rivals, changed tack this week, openly attacking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Pawlenty has trailed in polls in early voting states

Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) tweets: Pres Obama says only government that can break...cycle where lost jobs lead to...less spending. They are leading us

Annual event hosts conservatives not looking for change.

Greg Sargent has the scoop: Senator Harry Reid’s office says that if a final decision is made to pass health reform via reconciliation, the Majority Leader

Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is slated to deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s first address to Congress. If I remember it

President Barack Obama is giving a speech on his jobs program right now at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver. It’s a hot day and helicopters are circling and people in the crowd are reportedly passing out from exhaustion

This is probably the result of Website neglect, but still. The Defense Department’s official tally of U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan (PDF) lists