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As Daphne wrote earlier, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) reportedly told Charlotte Dennett, writing for Consortiumnews.com, that even he thinks his proposed truth

Sudeep Reddy of The Wall Street Journal interviews James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis -- a voting member of the Federal Open

DAVENPORT — The walk to the third floor of the Scott County Courthouse is a study in stark contrasts.

If ever you want a distillation of the differences between Obama’s conception of how to handle the emerging problem of domestic extremism and how his right-wing

Former Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), a candidate for governor who delayed his resignation from the House to vote against health care reform, was also fleeing an

The head of the new consumer financial protection bureau will be one of the most important figures in the financial world. This has led to serious speculation

The news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery yesterday for early-stage pancreatic cancer has already led to much speculation about

California illegal immigrants could face a tuition hike at public universities if the state Supreme Court rules in favor of 42 out-of-state students who claim

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On Wednesday, the Institute of Medicine will announce its recommendations about preventative health-care services for women to help the U.S. Department of

OK, so I’ve now read S.454, the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009, introduced today by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.). And it

Former President Bill Clinton now says that letting Lehman Bros. fail was a mistake that wound up clinching the election for then-candidate Barack Obama,

The primary beneficiary of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a company that wants to refine tar sands oil into diesel and ship it to Europe while avoiding taxes, according to a new report by Oil Change International . TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline would move diluted bitumen — oil from the tar sands region of Northern Alberta, Canada — across the U.S. to refineries in the Houston area at the rate of 700,000 barrels per day

The growing furor over AIG executive bonus payments has President Obama concerned enough that he’s even speaking out against them now, The New York Times

Republicans have been thrilled that Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is looking like a shoo-in for a Senate seat in the traditionally blue state of Delaware. Which

Last week, white nationalist writer Jared Taylor found himself at the center of a controversy when One People’s Project and Max Blumenthal reported on his 2006

Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) renewable energy standard, which is included as part of the broad energy bill the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

A new report shows that the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach metro area has the second highest income inequality in the country; the region is second only to New York City. The new report from the U.S. Census Bureau , which was released on Wednesday, analyzed which cities had the biggest gaps between the rich and the poor

Ever since Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, told a congressional panel two weeks ago that he was cut out of the loop on reading would-be