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I’d bet that Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is really mad now. After telling the government last week that it has no

The Obama administration’s move today to install strict new fuel efficiency and emission standards for the nation’s vehicles has left some Michigan Democrats in

The U.S. House of Representative’s move to strip federal funding from any program related in any way to abortion could have wide-reaching consequences

Party strategists hope to harness voter anger at unemployment with anti-spending rhetoric.

The New York Times and CoreLogic examined the data, and found that the rich are more likely to purposefully default on their mortgages -- to strategically

Though Sonia Sotomayor has strong support from Democrats, there’s been some concern that the National Rifle Association, which has opposed Sotomayor and

The Associated Press is reporting that Samantha Power will get a job on the National Security Council staff. (That’s via Laura Rozen and Matthew Yglesias.) It’s

The Brady Campaign, the anti-gun group that had experienced a rather tough run during the Bush administration, is pointing out that three Republican senators

I’ll have a story up soon on today’s testimony from Warren Buffett, the head of investment giant Berkshire Hathaway, to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

The national anti-abortion rights group Personhood USA, whose main efforts are to help states pass so-called “personhood” constitutional amendments, has

Two bills sponsored by Iowa House Republicans could have significant public safety consequences, and perhaps the most unnerving of those potential outcomes would be the justifiable use of deadly force against abortion or family planning providers. When the two pieces of legislation are combined they create a situation where a fertilized egg would be considered a person, and allow for the public execution of those who would threaten such a person. If passed into law, the two bills — House File 7 and House File 153 — would offer an unprecedented defense opportunity to individuals who stand accused of killing such providers, according to a former prosecutor and law professor at the University of Kansas, and are something that might have very well led to a different outcome in the Kansas trail of the man who shot Dr.

Still lethal, if today’s coordinated bombings in Baghdad are any indication. But in the wake of last week’s surprise killings of AQI leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri

At a time when many states are slicing services for people with disabilities across the nation, the federal government has come through with a welcome offering:

Washington is quiet, but that does not mean it is dormant. Staffers on the Hill and in the Treasury Department are working on a plan to restore normalcy to the

Rachel Hartman has a great roundup of what conservatives are saying about the upcoming Supreme Court battle. But it’s not just on the right that Justice John

Roll Call’s Shira Toeplitz reports that former Rep. Chris Chocola (R-Ind.), who went down in the 2006 midterms to Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), is the frontrunner

Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio (R) just agreed to a debate with Gov. Charlie Crist and Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), then immediately said yes to six

The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has released a crack report today called Outside Job: Winning Candidate Enjoyed Advantage in Unregulated Third-Party

First of all, take all the weeks of merger negotiations and throw them out the window: It’s looking more and more like the only way the Democrats can pass