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It is my country’s duty to ask for the custody of our detainees, like every country would do, the Yemeni official told TWI.

LEESBURG, Va. -- I’m on the idling Palin press bus, getting ready to head out on a swing through the state and then on to Pennsylvania tonight. Sitting here

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, has been playing defense lately. A recent water pollution hearing he sponsored in Orlando has been subject to scrutiny, mainly because he invited a slew of agriculture and industrial interests to testify, and only one environmental advocate (who was invited at the last minute).

House Speaker Ben Luján sent a letter to Democratic and Republican leaders Tuesday outlining plans to form a subcommittee during the special session to investigate allegations against PRC Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., which would ultimately decide whether to recommend impeachment for the full House. The process of impeachment is just like it is at the federal level: It requires a majority vote in the House and a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Meanwhile, Democrat Brad Gallegos announced his candidacy for Block’s seat on the PRC, bringing the total number of announced Democratic challengers against Block to five.

Gov. Rick Snyder, despite facing major protests against his policies and a recall campaign to remove him from office, told the Detroit News that he believes most voters support his policies: About the recall he faces, Snyder said he didn’t think it would succeed

The Department of Labor’s Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for April is out and the news is decidedly mixed.

A new ad from the Pew Environment Group taglined “Don’t Undermine the Grand Canyon” calls on President Barack Obama to extend a one-million-acre mining ban around Grand Canyon National Park for the next 20 years. Robert Redford Running this week in the New York Times (pdf) , the ad is signed by actors Robert Redford and Ed Norton, filmmaker Ken Burns, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Theodore Roosevelt IV, direct descendant of the president who helped found the national park system A moratorium on mining within a million acres of the iconic Grand Canyon was imposed by current Interior Secretary and former Colorado Sen.

Before protestors were placed under arrest and escorted by police through the University of New Mexico, they shouted to their future apprehenders “Cops are the 99 percent!” More than a glib rhetorical device aimed at making their voices heard, the (Un)occupy activists were unwittingly or not using a tactical device employed by previous successful protest movements.

The Department of Transportation is asking for public input on a proposed new set of regulations to govern natural gas pipelines in the United States. Cynthia Quarterman, director of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) released a document called an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking , which invites stakeholders to submit written testimony on the need for new regulations

While the national press bats around the question of whether, or how, Gov. Rick Perry ought to be called a racist, newspapers in Texas have unearthed a few new

Senate candidate Hector Balderas went on the offensive Friday — but in an email against the two top-tier Republican candidates, not his main opponent, fellow Democrat Martin Heinrich. Balderas said that he would vote against the Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., budget. But with the two Republicans, he said, “We just don’t know.” The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that Lt.

While anti-gay slurs may have been part of a Waterloo assault that led to the beating death of a 19-year-old Waterloo man, law enforcement investigating the incident say they do not believe sexual orientation was the focus of hate and violent actions. “These were individuals who were known to each other, and there had been previous incidents,” Lieutenant Michael McNamee of the Waterloo Police Department told The Iowa Independent by phone early Wednesday. “It is possible that there was anti-gay shouts made at the time of the incident early Friday, but the attack did not stem from that

Senators are currently debating Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) Audit the Fed amendment to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. (Watch the

DES MOINES — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney received a rather aggressive Iowa welcome Thursday during his Des Moines Register soapbox appearance at

Government spending in America is out of control and in need of a strong leader to reign it in and reduce debts for future generations, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty told a Des Moines crowd Monday morning, a day after he announced his candidacy for President . “Our country won’t get fixed is we keep going in the same direction,” Pawlenty told a crowd of about 200 people, including about 60 members of the press and some state politicians like Rep.

Poor residents of the state of Michigan who lose a family member will lose an assistance program to help pay funeral costs.

Immigrant rights organizations will join today in a national day of action in six U.S. cities, including Miami, to deliver a report that documents what they see as Secure Communities abuses, demanding that the Obama administration terminate the immigration enforcement program immediately. # Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Secure Communities program allows local law enforcement agencies to check the fingerprints of people they detain and match them up with federal immigration and criminal databases, with the stated goal of deporting criminals

Yucca Mountain, Nevada’s embattled proposed nuclear waste repository, is a not a winning issue in Nevada. Not for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.),

In testimony before Minnesota Senate and House committees last week, religious leaders and representatives from religious right organizations cited single-parent families and a skyrocketing divorce rate as reasons to protect marriage from being redefined to include same-sex couples by “activist judges” and “handfuls of legislators.” And GOP members rebuffed efforts by DFLers to include a ban on divorces in a proposed ban on gay marriage. However, a number of the legislators who say they want to protect marriage appear to have been divorced.

Most of the lawmakers already weighing in on Israel’s deadly raid against an international aid flotilla headed for Gaza have come out squarely in support of

Today’s noon filing deadline to run for U.S. Senate in Indiana came and went. And thanks to Sen. Evan Bayh’s (D-Ind.) last-minute retirement announcement, no