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Check out this turn of events: JP Morgan Chase is stepping up to offer $400,000 to cover severance pay for the workers staging a sit in at a Chicago factory,

Looks like last month’s massive oil spill will have an impact on drilling provisions in the climate bill after all. The Washington Post reports that the climate

Experts say that age discrimination is severely compounding the jobs crisis for older workers in the recession, although the phenomenon is difficult to quantify or to prove.

Last week, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) invited the public, via Twitter, to join him for a Texas A&M football game in October. The suite was reserved, he said.

The battle over earmarks gets physical. GOPer compares Dem tactics on climate change to Iranian forces of darkness. Mark your calendars: tomorrow’s

Here’s Mairead Maguire, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, blasting today’s surprise announcement that President Obama has been named the newest

Mormons take over the White House. Michele Bachmann is not a fan of the minimum wage increase. For your reading pleasure, here’s the police report on the

Consider this one unverified, but The Australian (h/t Small Wars Journal) is reporting that Capital-T Taliban leader Mullah Omar has reversed his position on

After months of insisting that single-payer health care receive at least a vote on the House floor, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) has decided not to offer the

I’m hearing that Thomas J. Perez, the nominee to run the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, may get a cloture vote tomorrow. Perez has been

Billed as a “counter to the leftwing Netroots Nation Convention” being hosted by Minneapolis in June, RightOnline has announced it’ll also be coming to Minnesota’s largest city this summer. The conference will feature Andrew Breitbart, a blogger whose selective editing of video has generated heated criticism, along with conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck protoge S.E. Cupp, and Minnesota blogger Ed Morrissey

Some perspective on the Labor Department’s latest unemployment figures, from the National Employment Law Project: With January’s unemployment figures, the

The Congressional Budget Office has conducted an analysis of President Obama’s budget proposal and now projects a $1.8 trillion deficit this year, up from a

A proposal to shift the borders of New Mexico’s three congressional districts will be debated by the full state Senate now that two committees, Rules and Judiciary, have approved it. The Associated Press reports : Sen. Linda Lopez, an Albuquerque Democrat and rules committee chairwoman, said the proposal was designed to keep current congressional districts mostly intact and to honor the requests of New Mexico’s tribes and pueblos, which will remain scattered among all three districts.

In 2005, the year that a drug-resistant bacteria known as MRSA killed an estimated 19,000 Americans, Dr. Lance Peterson began an experiment in three

A new report released today by the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, and the law firm of

The Israeli bombardment of Gaza is in its third day, and now the Islamic University in Gaza -- which The New York Times calls a Hamas stronghold and Israel

President Obama will host this morning what’s expected to be his final meeting with his national security team on Afghanistan strategy ahead of a revision

As Adam Liptak wrote in The New York Times on Saturday, the President-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department is going to have to quickly figure out what

High-stakes testing security in New Orleans is undergoing an overhaul this year following recommendations laid out by a task force commissioned by the Recovery

As Cuba celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its revolution on New Year’s Day, political shifts in the United States present Barack Obama with an opportunity to change long-standing policies.

During a press conference this morning in Chicago, ostensibly to officially name former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) as President-elect Barack