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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is hosting a fundraiser today for Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek’s (D) Senate bid. No one has come right out and said it,

Economics reporter Mary Kane reports today on how the $700 billion bailout plan won’t actually help out homeowners facing foreclosure. And, thanks to our

Republicans and Democrats have been sniping about the USA Patriot Act ever since Congress passed the law in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks to try to forestall another such disaster.

A fund called The Michael R. Bloomberg Revocable Trust, of which the principal trustee is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, donated $100,000 to a Baton

As the Senate begins deliberation today on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the outcome of the vote is pretty clear. As the Los Angeles

Crimes that occur on military bases are usually heard in the military justice system. But while that may sound harsher than a civilian court, the sentences

In line with economists’ expectations, the unemployment rate remained at 9.5 percent in July, the Labor Department announced this morning. Overall employment

Now that spring has sprung, Enbridge is beginning to ramp up cleanup efforts on the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek. On July 25, the Enbridge Energy Partners Lakehead Pipeline 6B burst, spewing an estimated one million gallons of thick tar sands crude oil into the two bodies of water, polluting dozens of miles of shoreline, threatening to recontaminate superfund sites, and potential reach Lake Michigan. The EPA and Enbridge were able to stop the flow of oil — both at the pipe and along the river.

At a moment when the country needs our help, it would be a great mistake for the House GOP to turn inward and simply become the party of “no.” - Rep. Eric

If any more proof was needed that CPAC organizers aren’t sweating the stories and photos about fringe conservatives making their way around the conference,

The Pollster.com average of President Obama’s approval rating is 60 percent, with only 33 percent of voters disapproving. Scott Rasmussen’s polls are way out of

As mentioned yesterday, Colin Powell’s former State Department chief of staff, ret. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, posted at The Washington Note that an

The Minnesota gubernatorial primary is today, but the Target Corp. controversy continues. To recap, Target made $150,000 in independent expenditures on behalf

With Republicans opposing the legislation en masse (and some Democrats raising questions too), prospects are dimming for passage of Senate Majority Leader Harry

The Secrecy News Blog, published by the Federation of American Scientists, notes that Attorney General Eric Holder has made some promising statements on the

They came from Colorado and Arizona, the two leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, summoned to Washington Wednesday to explain the panel’s

A new Rand Corporation study takes a crowbar to the Bush Doctrine of preventive war as counterterrorism strategy. At the risk of running afoul of the AP’s

The presidential campaign for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul is reporting that a weekend fundraising push, completed over a 24 hour period, netted $1.6 million in small, individual donations

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As I wrote earlier, Harry Reid (D-Nevada), the Senate majority leader, met with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) today about whether Lieberman would stay in the