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State Rep. Luis Garcia Jr., D-Miami (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep

The real mystery is why it took so long for someone to buy the audiobook of Bill O’Reilly’s novel Those Who Trespass and turn the most sexually explicit clips

KDKA of Pittsburgh reports that according to local police, the McCain worker who claimed to have been attacked for her political convictions just confessed to

Records from the final months of Bill Richardson’s administration will be unsealed following an opinion from Attorney General Gary King’s office. According to the opinion from King’s office, Richardson’s public records should be subject to requests from the Inspection of Public Records Act.

The House oversight committee has spent the day unloading on Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld -- his $480 million in compensation over the past eight years, his

It’s not just the government that’s considering bailing out the auto industry. Several utilities executives are considering ordering thousands of plug-in

In an exclusive interview with Jake Tapper of ABC News, Lakhdar Boumediene said he was tortured while wrongly imprisoned for seven and a half years at

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wants to know more about the watchlisting standards that Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says that two recent Second Amendment cases are now settled law and that she will follow them if she is confirmed as a

There’s a big coordinated attack underway in Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, far from the tribal areas where the Pakistani military is about to launch

If you were on your way out of town Friday evening, you might have missed TWI economy reporter Annie Lowrey on MSNBC, discussing Republican obstruction of a

Related to the warnings from some economists that the official unemployment rate will likely jump again this year, a Labor Department official today conveyed

As Republican delegates gather in St. Paul this week, two liberal groups are storming their hotels. The Campaign for America’s Future lays out its advertising

Registan’s Josh Foust is at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan -- hopefully he’ll find the Korean BBQ dining facility that I missed -- and he has a fascinating

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Former congressional candidate and Iraq war veteran Adam Kokesh was arrested this weekend after dancing at Jefferson Memorial.

In a last-minute scramble yesterday, Planned Parenthood’s clinic located in Overland Park was granted a license from a Kansas state agency allowing the clinic to continue providing legal abortion services. # The Planned Parenthood clinic was one of the last three clinics operating in the state until a new law went into effect today

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr Union members who have been locked out from American Crystal Sugar plants since the start of August rejected the company’s most recent offer in a vote Tuesday.

I’ve been tracking the progress of Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009, the legislation that would kill the salaries

Alissa J. Rubin has a great story in The New York Times today about a crucial issue in Iraq (which some wags are starting to call the Forgotten War): an

<p>Hello, my name is Allison Silver. I’m the editor of <em>The Washington Independent</em>. I’ve been involved in analysis and commentary in

It goes to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who was asked on a conference call about reports that Smartronix.com will get an $18 million contract to rebuild