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President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) The National Organization for Women (NOW) , the largest organization of feminist activists in the U.S., has joined reproductive rights advocates in asking President Obama to not cave in to pressure from the Catholic leaders asking that he strike a recent decision that increases access to birth control for women. A couple months ago, a federal health agency announced it would require health insurance companies to cover contraception as preventive care — which would remove co-payments.

Following a quick ascendance to the front of the race for the Republican presidential nomination last month, recent polls show U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann steadily losing support.

As the fight over gay domestic partnerships rages on in New Mexico, TWI’s sister site, The New Mexico Independent, reports that the battle is drawing the

Daphne? Can you help me understand something? I thought from President Obama’s answer to Sam Stein’s question at his press conference last month that he was

After meeting with immigration enforcement officials, the county of Arlington, Va., is giving up on its push to remove itself from Secure Communities, a program

There’s so much to say about President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo today. But for now, I want to focus on the aspects of it that conservatives insisted

In an accident reminiscent of last year’s massive oil spill in Calhoun County, a natural gas hydrofracking operation in Pennsylvania suffered an explosion Tuesday evening and spewed huge quantities of chemicals into the surrounding area. Bradford County’s director of public safety said a Chesapeake well went out of control late Tuesday night. That means the well blew near the surface, spilling thousands and thousands of gallons of frack fluid over containment walls, through fields, personal property and farms, even where cattle continue to graze.

Jeb Bush isn’t terribly happy with President Obama’s willingness to blame his brother George for his administration’s challenges: For months now, Jeb Bush has

Any sanctions would seek to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

Another thing that Noah Shachtman got into during his interview Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the military’s newest

President Obama will announce today that the United States will lift its long-standing ban on travel by Cuban-Americans to their homeland, according to The

This email came to reporters’ inboxes from the office of the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, objecting to this Politico story about Blair’s

The Obama administration is reportedly looking more closely at recess appointments for some nominees who’ve been mowed down by filibusters, with Sen. Richard

I’m going to head over to the Dirksen Senate office building pretty soon to cover the Soufan/Zelikow hearings. But before I go: it looks like Khost

GUANTANAMO BAY -- We’ve just been informed that the recess ordered by Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge, to ensure Omar Khadr will be advised of his

U.S. Senate Republicans recently introduced a bill that would require a doctor to notify a minor’s parents, and wait four days, before providing an abortion .

Greg Sargent has the ad that Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-health care reform 527 run by notorious hospital industry fraudster Rick Scott, will be

The New York Times identifies the State Department official who urged Twitter to reschedule a site maintenance -- and risk disrupting the communications of

Citing a new report by the Congressional Budget Office that corn-based ethanol subsidies cost taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)

Here are some photos from the two-day conservative conference. Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, poses for photos. In the background: