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An Amherst Special Town Meeting approved a resolution last night welcoming one or two cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees to Amherst, Mass. -- once Congress agrees

Environmental groups battling to get the Cotter Mill uranium processing facility near Cañon City properly cleaned up applauded a decision late last week by a district court judge in Denver that allows their lawsuit to go forward.

It should come as little surprise that the energy industry appreciates its right to pollute for free, and that it’s lobbying furiously to retain that privilege

Via Sara Murray of The Wall Street Journal, the American Bankruptcy Institute says that bankruptcies declined slightly between March and April ... but remain 15

Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress empowered to require Americans to buy health insurance, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) charged today. “I am seriously

Merle Wertman, now 62, was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera five years ago. He had no idea what Polycythemia Vera was. That isn’t surprising, considering

Amanda Terkel of ThinkProgress has a blow-by-blow timeline of an ambush by Jesse Watters, a producer for Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor who asks accusatory,

Let the games begin. Following yesterday’s high-profile health reform summit at the White House, the Senate Finance Committee announced today that Peter

The New Mexico pension fund will continue to invest in billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson for now, the fund’s chief investment officer said Wednesday. Paulson gained national attention when he bet against the sub-prime bubble, but his firm is now experiencing huge losses

While state Republicans are spearheading the contentious move to put a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage on the ballot next year, not all conservatives are behind them. In recent weeks, a number of conservatives — ranging from small-government and libertarian groups to gay Republicans — have spoken out against codification of marriage laws within the Minnesota Constitution.

When the House last week passed legislation to renew a controversial domestic wiretapping program, the groans from the Democratic-Party faithful did little to

It has been 22 days since some unemployment insurance recipients stopped receiving benefits, as the extenders bill -- also known as the jobs bill or H.R. 4213

Congressman Ed Perlmutter today issued a scathing statement criticizing the House of Representatives for passing a spending bill that could put nearly a million federal employees out of work. The Colorado delegation voted strictly on party lines, with all four Republicans voting in favor of the bill and the three Democrats voting in opposition. Perlmutter’s statement: “My number one priority is to get people back to work because that’s the best thing we can do to pay our debt and move forward toward economic stability

As the energy debate continues to bubble around the country, it appears more and more Democrats are abandoning their opposition to expanded offshore drilling

MoveOn.org, the progressive grassroots action group with five million members, today emailed their supporters to urge them to host a screening of Brave New

Well, if there were any doubts that Fox News would provide Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin an opportunity for a do-over on those annoying questions asked by CBS’

Senate Democratic leadership is pulling together a small-bore jobs bill, giving payroll tax breaks to businesses that repatriate jobs from overseas. Here is the