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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a multimillion-dollar ad attacking Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) last night as part of its nationwide effort to spend $75

My colleague notes that the House just passed the Senate extension of federal unemployment benefits, as the Senate did last night. The bill now moves on to

Tomorrow, the federal extension of unemployment benefits held up for two months in the Senate should pass. On a call with reporters this afternoon, Sens. Jack

La Raza announced late Friday that it was calling off its boycott of Arizona which has been in place since SB 1070 became law in May 2010. The organization said the boycott served its purpose of stopping Arizona from passing additional laws, and that it was effective in stopping some other states from passing immigration laws. La Raza said it is now time to focus on national immigration reform.

Pro Publica’s Ben Protess does some digging into the past of former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, who was chosen to fill President-elect Barack

A nervous-looking bureaucrat named Richard Shiffrin -- the former deputy general counsel for intelligence at the Pentagon -- declined any opening statement.

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Here are two quick video examples of something BlueMassGroup blogged yesterday--the Brown campaign busing in support for its People’s Rally and running some

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-Minn.) speech to the Values Voter Summit was tipped as a pivotal moment in his appeal to the GOP’s conservative base. Pawlenty hardly

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Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, is slated to meet with four Senate Democrats today to discuss whether BP played a role in the release of convicted

For all of the frenzy over Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comment that the system worked after the failed bombing on Northwest Airlines Flight

With the construction of a “spaceport” underway in the southern New Mexico town of Upham, NASA has made moves to take advantage of the new flight center by striking a $4.5 million contract agreement with owners Virgin Galactic.

Other White House contenders are all talk, GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlentysaid today during the Ames Straw Poll. The former Governor of Minnesota said

Predictably, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee swiftly denounced Sen. Barack Obama’s decision to be the first presidential candidate to

Leading members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including co-chair Keith Ellison, are urging President Barack Obama to step up job creation efforts to create three million jobs in 2012. “The size of the federal budget deficit is not keeping the American people up at night ; they’re worried about how to pay for groceries

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) hasn’t had much luck getting former White House officials to testify before his panel this year. Former senior

Sangeeta Ghosh, assistant corporate counsel for Kent County, Mich., says should the 51-year-old man charged in two cases of failing to disclose his HIV-positive

Newspapers throughout the state have come out against a Republican bill that proposes a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

Kris Kobach is the Kansas secretary of state and an attorney who is a pivotal player in the anti-immigration movement. He personally helped write much of the