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A senior Senate source emails with this preview of what to expect in the chamber’s energy bill, which is expected to take shape in the coming weeks. The

Weekly initial jobless claims fell to 460,000, down 14,000 from the prior week, the Labor Department announced this morning. Economists had expected

According to Eason Jordan at subscription-only IraqSlogger, the Maliki government is charging shoe-throwing journalist Muntader al-Zaidi with insulting the

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news. President Obama will deliver his major health care speech to Congress at 8 p.m. tonight -- and the

GOP presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen

A slew of big-name conservatives will appear at the first ever regional Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando on Sept. 23. Confirmed speakers include Mitt Romney, Ann Coulter, Marco Rubio, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul .

President Obama has arrived in Saudi Arabia for the first leg of of his outreach to what-we-maybe-shouldn’t-call-the Muslim world and, unsurprisingly, Osama bin

You know what Tom Donnelly, an American Enterprise Institute defense analyst, didn’t like about President Obama’s Iraq speech? Well, the substance of

As of Sunday evening, the number of Tomahawk missiles dropped by NATO forces -- mainly from the U.S. thus far -- on Libya stands at 124, according to Vice Adm.

The National Organization for Marriage-backed Vota Tus Valores campaign, which previously launched a bus tour around the state of California urging Latinos to

Pic via WikiHow On Monday, the newly reconstituted Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council met for the first time in Tallahassee, to discuss Florida’s prescription drug crisis. Among the Council’s members are state surgeon general Dr

Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist whose visibility has been on the way up since relocating his operation to Washington, is launching another

The implementation of a case by case review of at least 300,000 deportation proceedings, announced by the Department of Homeland Security last week, has left room for questions among immigrant advocate groups.

Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, puts out a flag-waving statement on the GOP candidate’s surprising, 11th-hour

The state of New York is currently considering lifting its ban on hydrofracking and adopting a set of regulations that allows the practice in some parts of the state but not others. ProPublica reports that the latest version of those regulations could directly affect water supplies in the nation’s largest city

This morning, Goldman Sachs, among the most lucrative of the Wall Street firms, released an eight-page shareholder note, a preface to its 2009 annual report,

Via Justin Elliott, I wonder if Muslim Mafia author Dave Gaubatz is causing any heartburn for the four Republican members of Congress who endorsed his book

A trio of groups were behind the successful push to place a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage, as well as civil unions and domestic