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An ongoing attempt to repeal a new California law, Senate Bill 48, which mandates school instruction of history to include the contributions of gay and transgender Americans, people with disabilities and other cultural groups, suffered two major bruises this week, suggesting the new law might not suffer the same fate as 2008’s Proposition 8.

During a conference call with reporters explaining a lawsuit challenging the rapid implementation of Florida’s new election laws , lawyers helping to bring the case for the American Civil Liberties Union said the changes could not be implemented before they are approved by the U.S.

Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v.

The fiscally conservative Club for Growth, which has sunk more than $600,000 into the New York 23rd Congressional District special election, is pushing the

Anthony Mangione, special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigations in Miami, pleaded not guilty today to three child pornography charges. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that Mangione, who, “served as the high-profile leader of U.S.

At least Macroeconomic Advisers says so. Ben Herzon explains: Early in the recovery many forecasters, concerned that the nascent expansion was fueled

New Mexico is one of four states, and the District of Columbia, that cut Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) block grant money, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities . The cuts “will carry a heavy human cost,” the policy organization reports. New Mexico has cut the TANF benefits from $447 per month for a family of three to $380 per month, or 15 percent

In an August 2001 speech given during a border summit, Gov. Rick Perry delivered a stirring endorsement of a law that passed through the Texas Legislature

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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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.

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles. According to a press release from the campaign posted by The Miami Herald : Each member has been an active voice in state politics and an advocate for conservative causes and issue campaigns. The Romney campaign will utilize this coalition to perform voter outreach and coalition building for Get Out the Vote efforts

There have been plenty of headlines generated by President Obama’s apparent criticism of Senate Republicans for blocking legislation to raise the oil spill

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta issued new guidelines last week designed to help health care providers counsel patients and determine if taking powerful antiretroviral medications will be an effective prevention strategy. The new guidelines come just months after a major study found that daily use of tenofovir plus emtricitabine, called Truvada, reduced the potential of infection for high risk men who have sex with men by 44 percent

In late January, just days before her son would win the Florida Republican primary, 96-year-old Roberta McCain—who in another era might have been called a