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Marine scientists at the University of Georgia are taking issue with a report released last week by the Obama administration that said much of the oil from the

Just released from the Vice President’s office: “Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave

McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay was with the Marines in Gangjal, a village in southern Afghanistan, when they walked into a killing zone of relentless gunfire and

Despite the best efforts of some environmentalists to argue that a fire on an offshore oil platform last week should cause the Obama administration to extend

Consumer advocates for years have warned that the payday loan industry preys on low-income borrowers who become reliant on one loan to pay off another -- with

In language that may or not have been cleverly chosen, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the newest member of the Democratic party, told reporters moments ago

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had strong words for Iowans on the state of education, but a stronger word of warning to the Legislature: keep politics out of education. U.S

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is overjoyed now that President Obama has signed into law a bill authorizing summer and year-round activities at ski areas on national forest land.

At a hearing this morning with executives from five leading oil companies, House Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) lambasted the

The U.S. State Department has announced the next stages in the process of approving or rejecting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of America

Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney

Following up on Spencer’s post, Human Rights Watch isn’t the only voice expressing concerns that the Obama administration’s new Cuba travel policy doesn’t go

Eight years after Katherine Boo wrote “The Marriage Cure” for The New Yorker -- which explored the idea promulgated by the George W. Bush administration

According to the latest numbers from Florida’s new welfare drug testing requirements, the state is currently spending more money on drug testing welfare applicants than it is saving money by denying benefits to those applicants who fail the test. The New York Times reports : The law in Florida, where the average recipient receives $253 a month for less than five months, is more expansive.

Maybe blasts was the wrong verb for my old headline on the White House’s response to Israel’s expansion of settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem. The

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Today’s hearing introduces us to a young SERE clinical psychologist named Jerald Ogrissig. A retired Air Force major, Ogrissig, who appears before the Senate

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The jobs bill, which includes an extension to unemployment benefits among other provisions, could be passed if Democrats would be willing to pay for it with

Michigan’s largest business organization has announced support for the New International Trade Crossing — a new publicly-owned but privately-financed and built bridge that would connect Detroit and Windsor south of the Ambassador Bridge. The Detroit News reports that the Chamber endorsement gives a big boost for the coalition of business and labor groups that back the project and further isolates Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Maroun, who has spent millions campaigning against the project. [Gov.