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One of ten Democrats chosen by a Karl Rove-affiliated national conservative group as a target for a $1.4 million ad buy is U.S.

The Senate Armed Services Committee just announced a hearing next Tuesday morning to get a status update on Afghanistan war strategy. Testifying will be two of

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At all curious how much money goes into running a whole school, or dozens of schools broken down by type, like charter, middle school and high

At 3:30 ET today, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board is expected to declare Al Franken the winner of his U.S. Senate race against incumbent GOP Sen. Norm

The Detroit News on Friday published a commentary by Jay Ambrose of the Scripps Howard News Service about hydrofracking that contained a couple of easily falsified claims. Addressing the issue of contamination by fracking liquids he writes: For that to happen, as you can learn from several articles, much-diluted chemicals used in tiny amounts would have to rise thousands of feet and pass through solid rock without the benefit of fracking to reach the aquifers above.

<p>Without much notice, something strange has happened to the intelligence community during the second term of President George W. Bush. The leaders of

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After last month’s marathon Afghanistan-Pakistan Congressional hearings with Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, I noted an unanswered

One of the major tenets of the Bush administration’s border security plan was the Secure Border Initiative Network, or SBInet, a system of high-tech radars,

An Austin-based anti-abortion group’s controversial New York City billboard has been taken down, according to reports from various media outlets. Heroic Media

Of the many reasons to oppose health care reform, this is probably the worst. From today’s Washington Post: Former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich said

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Walking through Sen. Barack Obama’s national headquarters last night, it was striking to see how quiet things were on election eve. The

Can Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) make two improbable comebacks in one election season? Some internal polls released last week indicated that he was closing the gap

Which 501(c)(4) groups are pushing it when it comes to making election activities their primary mission? Groups wishing to maintain their tax-exempt status

Curtis Hertel Jr., Register of Deeds for Ingham County, says that a discovery he made involving alleged fraudulent mortgage documents is now being investigated by both the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI. “Yes, this is, in my opinion, fraud,” Hertel said.

New Mexico House Democrats reintroduced a compromise bill tightening requirements for foreign nationals applying for driver’s licenses Friday, but Gov. Martinez called it a “partisan gimmick.” The bill, almost identical to the one passed in the Senate during the regular session, would require driver’s licenses for those without a Social Security number to be renewed every two years — instead of every four to eight — and additional documentation proving New Mexico residency. Some of the notices sent out to foreign nationals asking them to prove state residency were sent back because the license-holders never lived at the address, the address did not exist or they simply moved out-of-state.

It’s only been a few hours since the Senate Finance Committee killed two separate proposals to create a public insurance plan as part of the year’s health

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed today that Secure Communities, a program that provides federal immigration officials with

National anti-abortion-rights policy group Americans United for Life emailed supporters Monday announcing a new strategy in the form of a video to try “once

The Conservative Party’s candidate is pushing this news today: a one-day $116,000 fundraising surge on Thursday, which is impressive when you realize that Sarah