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The NY-23 special election has gotten so much attention that a special election in California, for the seat of now-Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher, has

Today, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, kicked off a national advertising campaign. The goal is to explain to regular Americans what it actually

Dave has been following the saga of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who incited a GOP uproar this week after charging that the Republicans’ health reform strategy

Greg Sargent follows up with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who left the impression in a Politico story on birthers that he was sympathetic to their

One more thing about the New America Foundation’s drone-strike report, which found that the drones have only killed Pakistani civilians one-third of the time.

The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood reports: The Standish City Council unanimously approved a resolution targeting President Barack Obama and federal

President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today -- and in doing so, he acknowledged the wars America is fighting and sought to justify his role in

Bob Graham (D-Fla.), the former chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, expands on his account of what the CIA told him about enhanced interrogation

NYPD and the FBI busted an apparent homegrown terror cell in the stages of plotting to blow up two synagogues in the Bronx. As someone who used to occasionally

Palin starts putting together a campaign -- and if the primaries were this year, she’d have a shot. Obama taps a key architect of Bush’s military

The National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday by the House of Representatives, includes a largely overlooked provision that modifies the Military

A controversial Senate bill currently under review in Tallahassee will be revised, according to a spokesman for the Florida Farm Bureau. # State Sen.

Very little is clear in the Iranian election, aside from the fact that the opposition does not credit for a moment the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning

The GOP congressman and candidate for governor of Michigan is quick with his (faint) praise on Twitter:

This is a state that Democrats said was going blue, or least purple, said Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, on Virginia. How do they explain it if they lose?

The health reform blueprint unveiled by President Obama earlier this week is being described everywhere as an amalgamation of the Senate and House bills. When

I had no luck getting members of Congress to talk yesterday about the relationship between Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, and the CIA. But

Rather than taking a fourth cloture vote, the Senate just agreed to start formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill by

Lost in the din over Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to switch parties today was Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Kathleen Sebelius’ confirmation

President Obama is scheduled to deliver remarks in Michigan this afternoon touting the potential for battery technologies to jump-start the electric vehicle

When Gov.

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