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In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today, a coalition of renewable energy industry groups, environmentalists and labor unions called

Although the Obama administration’s much-anticipated new policy on the use of the so-called state secrets privilege, announced this morning, has drawn some praise, civil liberties lawyers and other critics of the use of the privilege don’t think it solves the problem.

Power, a journalist covering the Balkan wars of the 1990s, wrote the 2002 groundbreaking book on U.S. indifference to genocide, A Problem From Hell, before

In a major victory for Mohammed Jawad and the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented him, Jawad today returned home to Afghanistan. That means he’s

The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit today against Gov. Rick Perry, questioning the constitutionality of his involvement in The

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today (pdf) that four British men who say they were tortured while imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay have no

Not sitting Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), as Palin made clear in a Facebook message to her supporters this morning that began: Contested primaries are so

President Obama today made official what had been leaked over the weekend: That the viability plans submitted last month by Chrysler and General Motors don’t go

New data show that in just under three decades, the after-tax income for the top one percent of earners rose by 281 percent, compared with 25 percent for the middle quintile and 16 percent for the bottom fifth.

This morning, the outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said that planned payroll cuts were 38,810 in May -- roughly the same level as

WATERTOWN, NY -- The walls of the small event hall were festooned with Don’t Tread On Me and Liberty or Death signs; supporters waved placards that read Save Our Country, Vote Hoffman and THANK YOU: John Rich, Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck.

The unfolding foreclosure fraud crisis isn’t easy to understand, but here it is boiled down. Banks need proper documentation to repossess a home from a family.

At today’s White House press briefing: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was arrested

Sen. Patrick Leahy’s comments on the possibility of an investigation into Bush torture policies offered legitimacy to a debate over how to handle the past.

The proverbial i’s will soon be dotted, the t’s crossed and the Sen. honorific prepended to Al Franken’s name: Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) has announced that

Pic by stu_spivack, via Flickr The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity reports that the state’s unemployment rate for the month of September dipped slightly to 10.6 percent, still well above the 9.1 percent national rate. Florida saw job growth in the accommodation and food service sector, which workers say features low pay and unhealthy working conditions. A report on the “State of Working Florida 2011″ recently issued by the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (aka RISEP) at Florida International University indicates job growth has been concentrated in “lower wage industries,” including accommodation and food services. Today’s Department of Economic Opportunity report (.pdf) shows that the accommodation and food service industries added 7,500 jobs over the last month

Rep. Michele Bachmann is one of 81 cosponsors of a House resolution that would condemn President Obama for his decision to discontinue the federal government’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act

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Alcohol was at the center of perhaps the biggest shutdown-related news since the Minnesota government closed down 14 days ago. Here’s what happened Wednesday, along with a few other shutdown-related headlines: • State officials told the MillerCoors brewing giant it must stop selling its beer in Minnesota because of an expired license. According to the Star Tribune , the Department of Public Safety told the brewer to devise a plan to pull its products from the shelves.

One day after longtime Democratic Rep. David Obey made his surprise retirement announcement, the National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting

Here’s a reason to be relieved if you’re a deployed or deployable member of the U.S. military (though at this point deployable member of the U.S. military is

Ten years ago, Congress dismantled the decades-old Glass-Steagall Act, breaking down the firewalls between commercial banks and securities houses, and helping