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Julie Bass of Oak Park wanted to save some cash on fresh vegetables, so she started a garden this spring. But now, Oak Park officials are dragging her to court over it. The reason?

Bill Ayers must be having the time of his life. Yep, Shepard Smith has officially gone rogue. Grijalva says over 70 percent of House Dems support a robust

Today is the day. Now we wait for what Gen. David Petraeus described on Wednesday as two weeks of high-level internal strategy and resource debates to find out

Michigan’s Republican-controlled redistricting map has prompted plans by Detroit Reps.

Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he will soon be issuing his opinion regarding whether immigrants in immigration proceedings can challenge adverse

Just as the House Energy and Commerce Committee was passing a not-very-green cash-for-clunkers amendment to the Waxman-Markey bill, three senators introduced a

Retired generals and admirals said that they were encouraged by a meeting yesterday afternoon with Attorney General Eric Holder.

...are candidates for the State Board of Education asked whether they believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together. They both answered no, but the

So says MSNBC, which reports this morning that the anti-abortion Michigan Democrat is simply worn out from all the attention (i.e., criticism) he and his family

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims rose 12,000, to 472,000. Last week’s claims were revised upward, from 456,000

Five top U.S. corporations racked up millions in profits last year and paid no federal taxes.

So an Arkansas state senator calls Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) that Jew, and in the course of explaining away the remark through a folksy defense of

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial jobless claims climbed to the highest level in five months, up 2,000 to 484,000, with last

Chances are President Obama will announce a readjusted Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s very likely that strategy

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s response to the news that a man he granted clemency in 2000 is a suspect in yesterday’s brutal massacre of four police

Karl Rove, who is launching his new book today, by way of donations has already taken sides in several 2010 Senate races. Rove’s 2009 contributions

Physics professor David C.

Karen DeYoung’s Washington Post story today isn’t actually about the 2004 intelligence-community reforms failing to stop the would-be Northwest Airlines Flight

Today, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) -- the first Muslim elected to Congress -- and national security experts discussed the causes of, and solutions to,

Some good news from the Department of Labor: initial jobless claims dropped last week, falling from an adjusted 478,000 to 451,000. Still, the number is high,

Colleges and alumni associations throughout Texas are making money from banks and credit card companies by selling them the names, addresses, phone numbers and