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CHICAGO, Ill. - Speaking to reporters on the campaign plane Monday morning, an aide to Sen. Barack Obama placed a bet on Sen. John McCain’s next weak spot:

NASHVILLE -- The closest thing to a controversy at the National Tea Party Convention has been the opening speech by former congressman Tom Tancredo, in which he

Almost 29 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter delivered what is considered one of the worst speeches of his career. Americans were

A concentrated oil burn in the Gulf of Mexico, conducted in May 2010 (Pic by Deepwater Horizon Response, via Flickr) Though the state Department of Agriculture has begun ramping up its campaign to educate Floridians about the safety of gulf seafood, some remain unconvinced that it is as safe for consumption as the Food and Drug Administration has claimed. Just last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonpartisan environmental advocacy group, filed a petition with the FDA, demanding that the agency “recognize the hazards posed by PAHs in seafood and set a health protective standard.” PAHs, or Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, are pollutants that have been shown to cause cancer in both animals and humans

Here’s the OLC memo from May 30, 2005, which states that enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA are consistent with United States

It’s only a few minutes old, this news that the Minnesota Supreme Court, at long last, has ruled Al Franken the winner of last November’s Senate election. But

WASILLA, Alaska -- Earlier today, First Lady Laura Bush urged us to remember Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of her hometown from 1996-2002 when assessing

Ernest Luning -- of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent -- is on the scene in Denver, where President Obama is set to sign the much-anticipated stimulus

Can someone please bring an element of coherence to U.S. policy on civilian casualties in Afghanistan? The New York Times reports that a military inquiry into a

A bill that would have pulled state funding from local governments refusing to participate in the controversial Secure Communities program died in the Senate Monday.

No plans for Labor Day? The coal industry has you covered. At no cost to the public, the heavyweights of the industry are putting on the Friends of America

The core inflation rate is holding steady at 0.9 percent, the lowest rate in 44 years. The United States actually experienced a month of deflation in April.

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair delivered the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment briefing to the Senate intelligence committee today, and

When I started calling around Tuesday to the Departments of State and Defense about the prospective loss of Kyrgyzstan’s Manas air base, the critical facility

Karl Rove gets all the attention, but Politico argues that the guy who’s really pulling the strings behind the Republican-boosting outside spending effort is a

I’ve been buying Michael Barone and Richard E. Cohen’s biannual Almanac of American Politics since 2001, so I’m happy to own the new 2010 edition, even if a

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical ticking bomb case -- OMG there’s a bomb hidden in

Presidential candidate Rick Perry has signed the National Organization for Marriage’s marriage pledge, the group announced on Friday. The Texas governor has a

As I wrote earlier today, it is difficult to see the May jobs numbers as anything but a worrying disappointment. The stall-out in job growth might be temporary

This certainly seems like a prelude to a very long-telegraphed campaign: There’s been a heavy bombardment. They targeted some militant hideouts as well as