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The McCain campaign is apparently angry with NBC’s Andrea Mitchell for reporting that the Obama campaign staff suggested Sen. John McCain may have been able

The McCain campaign’s vocal hostility toward the mainstream media may be creating a dangerous environment for reporters covering the Arizona senator’s

“Today’s action doesn’t solve this issue,” Marco Ciavolino, a staffer at the Terry Lakin Action Fund , told the Colorado Independent in response to news that President Obama released an image of his “long-form” birth certificate today.

As the health care debate twists and turns through the Senate, the prospects for a public option remain murky. This scoreboard, updated daily, can serve as your

The Texas House approved Friday an amendment to state budget bill House Bill 1 that restores funding -- albeit at a reduced level -- for a program that pays

Congressional Republicans need to “take Medicare off the table” and deal directly with the nation’s debt-ceiling, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Friday

Laura Rozen goes through the tea leaves: We solved the matter of the settlements with the Americans, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly

As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking

Previous reporting has all indicated to me that the big systemic failure in the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 near-attack concerned the standards for moving

The Congressional Budget Office released its Budget and Economic Outlook for fiscal years through 2021, estimating that unemployment will likely remain high

A search warrant unsealed Friday shows that Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., did not only buy multiple gas fill-ups — within minutes of each other and for other people as well as himself — but he also bought chimichangas, cigarettes and Gatorade.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who formally announced his bid for president over the weekend, will raise money for Cornerstone Action, a family policy council

Josh Rogin of Congressional Quarterly does a great job fleshing out some of the budget-backstory between the Defense Department and the Office of Management and

Voters hoping to learn who’s contributing to their lawmakers this election season will shortly find a gaping hole: Due to antiquated rules requiring

The McCain campaign really hit an Obama nerve today. After Obama announced a few Republican endorsements in a national conference call, the RNC sent out a

If you didn’t get enough reporting and analysis on the Pentagon’s master planning document, the Quadrennial Defense Review, from my preview piece on Friday,

After a British court ruled that the U.K. government has to disclose sensitive information about how the United States tortured a British citizen named Binyam