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The news that President-elect Barack Obama may pick his national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, for secretary of commerce raises a couple of

At the site of the almost three-week long Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Minneapolis, Hennepin County security made a strange discovery Monday: a box filled with rocks and labeled “riot equipment.” Organizers with Occupy Minnesota deny that any protesters were connected to the box, saying it was the action of a “provocateur.” “It seems like the motivation is either to make us look bad, or he doesn’t seem to be entirely like he knows exactly what he’s doing,” Occupy Minnesota spokesperson April Lukes-Streich told the Minnesota Independent. ”We’ve informed the Sheriff’s Department that we know they’re not part of our group, so far they haven’t reacted much to that, and we will be keeping an eye out and we absolutely don’t condone that kind of behavior.” Occupy Minnesota organizers stressed that the movement has been non-violent since its inception. A spokesperson from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department sent out a press release with photos of the box Monday night: ”The Sheriff’s Office is investigating.

A day after the Senate approved sweeping financial reform legislation, White House senior adviser David Axelrod affirmed that President Obama is considering

State Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, says the Legislature will yet again reject home visiting grants from the federal government because the money is still allocated from the Affordable Care Act

As former Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) could tell you, a challenge in your own district is a heck of a thing to deal with while you’re running the NRCC.

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding the announcement made by American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS -- the sister groups that Republican strategists Karl Rove and

The campaign chairman for presidential candidate Ron Paul Tuesday morning was investigating a link between anti-library recorded robocalls bombarding homes and cellphones in Carroll. The calls urge residents to vote against a new library today to send a message to the Carroll City Council for a decision last winter prohibiting firearms on public property.

A women’s health clinic in Pensacola, Fla., closed its doors recently after failing to pay its mortgage.

Later this month, officials with Western Governors University will announce new details about the nonprofit online college’s Texas chapter, a sub-university

Few people focus more on the signature weapon of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars -- the improvised explosive device, or IED -- than Lt. Gen. Michael Oates, who

By any objective measure, the $138 billion in deficit savings the Democrats’ health reform bill would rack up over the next 10 years (while extending coverage

Gov. Rick Snyder has asked the state Supreme Court to rule directly on the constitutionality of the Emergency Manager law, which is being challenged in Ingham Circuit Court

The GOP presidential nominee’s role in the Keating Five scandal raises questions about his fitness to handle Wall Street’s meltdown.

President Obama just acknowledged that the government messed up in not passing along information intelligence agents had about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the

I’m not there, but Twitterborne images of openly gay Lt. Dan Choi, a New York National Guardsman, show him and a comrade leading a group of activists to the

DENVER -- In 2004, I was googling around to find something about Joe Biden for a piece I was writing. What I found was a short-lived blog titled Joe Biden Is

There has been some confusion for years over what exactly waterboarding has meant in practice. Does it induce the sensation of drowning? Or does it actually

Or not. Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) just shot out a statement declaring that he has absolutely no reason to question President Obama’s citizenship. I

A feud between Rep.