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Though Senate Democrats say there won’t be much time in the lame-duck session to pass significant energy legislation, environmentalists know it could be their

The Michigan Messenger caught up today with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who lives at the C Street house made famous of late by several current and former

A new investigation of the Justice Dept. is now gaining traction. The scandal stems from the department’s decision to distribute millions of dollars in

A host of U.S. officials, led by Vice President Joe Biden, traveled to Munich for a prestigious annual security conference over the weekend, where they’re

Michigan workers who are hurt on the job could face reduced workers’ compensation benefits if legislation passed by the state House becomes law.

Over at The New Mexico Independent, Matthew Reichbach reports on a disturbing series of Twitter messages advocating violence against members of left-leaning

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is already planning a trip back out on the campaign trail. TPM Election Central’s Eric Kleefeld reports the Alaska governor is heading

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.

Lawmakers have only hinted at reforms to the nation’s mine safety laws in the wake of April’s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch in West Virginia. But

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