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Here’s some interesting green news coming out of Beijing: the city’s Olympic Village has become the first to win a green building certification. The

President Barack Obama vowed to protect and extend veterans support services at a speech to 5,000 members of the American Legion Tuesday in Minneapolis. While the president spoke inside the Minneapolis Convention Center, protesters outside were concerned with issues ranging from the environment to the war in Afghanistan

Of all the talking points emerging from the conservative side about the 9/11 trials, the prospect of attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed getting set free in

Despite Hasan’s reported contacts with an al-Qaeda-connected cleric in Yemen, the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and FBI will handle the probe.

Sportsmen aren’t necessarily opposing an anti-wilderness bill co-sponsored by three Colorado Republicans because they’re enamored with the Colorado Roadless Rule, which would likely be derailed by the bill after six long years of negotiation. They just want the ability to keep trying to improve the Colorado rule

Anti-Lowe’s protesters at Saturday’s rally A Saturday demonstration outside of a Lowe’s home improvement store in a Detroit suburb brought out more than 150 local residents and religious leaders and even one state representative — all of whom were protesting the chain’s decision to pull its ads from the TLC reality show All-American Muslim after receiving numerous calls to do so by the Florida Family Association. The group demonstrated outside of the Lowe’s in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb adjacent to the city where All-American Muslim is filmed

Michelle Rhee — former Washington, D.C., public school chancellor; supporter of the tough-on-teachers brand of school reform; founder and CEO of Students First ; and informal adviser to Gov. Rick Scott — supports the DREAM Act. # Rhee wrote this weekend: # One of the reasons I started StudentsFirst is because for too long our educational policies have focused on adults, not kids

The Minnesota Independent’s Andy Birkey has the details: Days after Rep. Michele Bachmann launched a petition against the Association of Community

Tar Sands Action, the group that organized the massive protests at the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests, has announced the third phase of their protest plans against the project. The second phase, protests at events at which President Obama is speaking, is still ongoing. Phase three is slated for Nov

Laura Rozen reports: Days after Obama delivered a Nobel speech that struck a new emphasis on human rights, saying freedom movements have history and us on

We wrote last week at the Independent about the tendency of presidential candidates to put on a blue collar persona when they campaign in states like Ohio.

On a conference call just now, senior administration officials provided some details about their plan for detaining Guantanamo detainees at Illinois’ Thomson

The financial bailout bill failed in the House when no one -- not the president, congressional leader or vote counter -- had the influence to save it. What would LBJ have done?

Unhappy with all the recent tweaks to the Senate’s health care reform legislation, three top Republicans are asking the Congressional Budget Office to re-score

Joe Klein sat down with Mir Hossein Moussavi and got a couple answers directly salient for a U.S. audience. They confirm some of the impressions left by

Conservative activist Gary Bauer pens an interesting column for Human Events that casts Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) feud with David Letterman (remember that?

Sen. John McCain, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were left off the conservative conference’s speakers list this weekend.

With so much focus on West Virginia’s coal mines following April’s deadly blast at the Upper Big Branch, The Washington Post today has a good reminder that the

Craig Shirley, the Republican political strategist who wrote a fine book about Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign, is probably the most red meat