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More than 120 people, including delegations from 20 states, participated in a national summit on the ongoing AIDS Drug Assistance Program crisis held this week in Washington, D.C. The theme of the gathering was: “When will Washington come to the rescue?” # The delegations included Florida and Georgia , the states that have the first- and second-longest Drug Assistance Program waiting lists, respectively, in the U.S. The Drug Assistance Programs supply life-saving drugs to HIV/AIDS patients who are uninsured and/or unable to afford their medications.

The CIA has already copped to destroying videotapes in 2005 that detail brutal interrogations. All in all, as the American Civil Liberties Union forced the CIA

It was a bill so uncontroversial that it sailed through both the House and Senate without a single objection before George W. Bush made it law with the stroke

Great profile of Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the Christian Science Monitor. I’ve been writing for months now that Gates is the key swing vote in the

Voter photo identification proposals in 32 states, including Colorado, are the product of a coordinated effort by conservatives to reduce polling place turnout by minority groups, who turned out in unprecedented numbers during the 2008 presidential election, a progressive civil rights organization alleges in a new report .

More bad economic news is out today already, with a jobs report showing unemployment leaping to a 14-year high of 6.5 percent -- much worse than expected. That

Thirty minutes after she was initially supposed to arrive at the Iowa State Fair for a soapbox appearance, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) kept her message to supporters — and would-be hecklers — short and sweet

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Gov. Rick Scott sparked a debate when he released the salary data on dozens of professors at Florida’s public universities

Florida Senate Majority Leader Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando (left) and state Sen. Joe Negron, R-Palm City (Pic via flsenate.gov) In a committee meeting today, state Sen. Joe Negron made clear that he wants legislators to take a hard look at social services in order to determine whether the state will continue funding them

President Obama has not acknowledged tensions between efforts to reach out to the Muslim world and new air travel screening rules.

Lots of attendees at a Tea Party on Saturday in Alamagordo, N.M., that’s who.

He promised to do so on the campaign trail, and now he’s done it: President Obama has approved a troop increase to Afghanistan. His just-released statement is

TPM caught a poor word choice in Howard Kurtz’s Monday column: The Boston Globe has an interesting piece from Obama’s native country on attempts to cash

The Pentagon general counsel, July 7: Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson suggested to the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the difficulties

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health report a genetically engineered bacteria common to the vagina can cut HIV infections by 63 percent. The blog IRMA – Rectal Microbicide Advocacy reports on the study: Dean Hamer of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues engineered naturally occurring vaginal bacteria to produce the anti-HIV protein cyanovirin-N

American Independent News Network reporters Todd Heywood, of The Michigan Messenger, and Marcos Restrepo, of The Florida Independent, have both reported

President Barack Obama’s proposed cuts to federal heating assistance could impact more than 615,000 low income households in Michigan, advocates warn. Obama

The eight undocumented youth who have been protesting in Atlanta were arrested late this afternoon. Samantha Nawrocki, a spokesperson for One Michigan, said the youth were arrested shortly before 4 p.m. They were protesting a Georgia law which bans undocumented youth from attending state universities.

Erick Erickson of RedState, whose stature in the conservative movement has risen with the Doug Hoffman insurrection, blasts out an announcement of a second

Remember last month, when a Website called Preserve Raptor Jobs began warning that 95,000 jobs would get cut if the Pentagon scrapped the problematic Air Force