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So which reporters seeking to embed with the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan have been profiled by the Rendon Group? Rendon, the CIA-linked communications

Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) is now having own Macaca YouTube moment. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and others wonder what Apple is hiding. Contrary to

An Iowa manufacturing plant recently highlighted by President Obama will take advantage of a state economic development package to launch a $300 million expansion of its rolled aluminum product offerings, creating an estimated 150 permanent jobs. Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of primary and fabricated aluminum, will expand it’s rolled products plant in Bettendorf, known as Alcoa Davenport Works, to coincide with supply demands from the automotive market

Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul calls his controversial Maddow interview a poor political decision. Still, Paul leads Kentucky’s Democratic

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling that the requirement in the federal health care reform law that individuals buy health insurance or face penalties is unconstitutional. It also upheld the lower court’s rejection of an argument by Florida and 25 other states that the law’s expansion of Medicaid is “coercive” to the states. # Today’s ruling holds that the rest of the law can be allowed to stand; the lower court held that the mandate was so integral that the rest of the law should be struck down.

The debate over what caused the mortgage mess and how best to fix it is now taking a sharp turn, as new problems surrounding liar’s loans and payment-option

Since the Wall Street bailout was signed into law last October, critics of the strategy have often been met with a central reassurance from leaders of the

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday signed a bill that makes abortions “based on the sex or race of the fetus” a felony in the state of Arizona

Jonathan Martin has the first look at an email going out to Family Research Council supporters in which Tony Perkins tells conservatives to close their wallets

Well, it didn’t take long for House Republicans to recognize that having Henry Waxman atop the House Energy and Commerce Committee is a greater threat to the

NPR has a story today on the ties between Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, and private prisons that stand to benefit from more illegal immigrants being

Lambda Legal , a New York-based organization committed to winning gay civil rights through the courts, announced in a press release Tuesday that it would challenge New Jersey’s 2006 same sex civil unions law for failing to bring full equality to gay residents of the state. Lambda, which is teaming with New Jersey LGBT group Garden State Equality , will refer to government studies and press investigations that document the way employers have failed to recognize couples entered into a civil union and how civil unions have been ignored or misunderstood by authorities, often in instances involving critical medical decisions. Colorado nearly passed a civil unions bill this spring that its main sponsors, Sen Pat Steadman and Rep Mark Ferrandino, acknowledged fell short of full equality

For the past four years, every time Moqtada Sadr has made this-or-that tactical retrenchment -- standing down from the August 2004 Najaf battle; going to

The Humphrey Institute’s Smart Politics notes that if Rep. Michele Bachmann’s fundraising pace continues — and if she opts not to run for president — she will raise nearly $52 million by November 2012

Glenn Beck-like, I put my head in my hands over the sheer lunacy expressed by the much-disgraced former New York Democratic congressman: • Earlier in the

In Flint, Mich. and some other troubled communities fighting against an onslaught of abandoned and vacant properties, the latest survival tactic is to shrink

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), considered one of the few Republicans to make concrete budget proposals during the current recession, spoke at the Brookings

Global warming skeptics hope SuperFreakonomics will continue to shift attitudes toward their cause.

TWI visits a Reston, Va. town hall event to talk with protesters.

Anyone who thinks they’ll be able to repeal ObamaCare is kidding themselves, said Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. If they want to stop it, they need to stop it now.