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Ben Smith has the news about the liberal Jewish group’s big event, which he suggests will reassure skittish Democrats about the conference after Sen. Chuck

Fresh off last week’s news that companies run by the nephew of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the prominent House defense appropriator, have received millions of

Organizations connected to the Service Employees International Union reported spending $759,000 in independent expenditures on the Massachusetts Senate race in

Rasmussen Reports gins up the does President Obama hate America and love Europe controversy — which doesn’t seem to be, er, denting Obama’s improving poll

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) gets his first good news in a while with a Quinnipiac poll that has him recovering a lead over Pat Toomey, the GOP candidate who

Yesterday, when it leaked that President Obama will put forward a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq in 19 months, I figured antiwar activists wouldn’t

From The Associated Press: Spain’s top investigative magistrate has opened an investigation into the Bush administration over alleged torture of terror

I mentioned in April that CIA luminary Phil Mudd was going to become undersecretary of Homeland Security for intelligence, but Jeff Stein scoops the world and

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is smiling: Senate Democratic leaders said Monday that they were prepared to drop a proposed expansion of Medicare and make other

Potential Republican 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman appeared in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “Good Morning America” on

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threatened to hold a midnight vote yesterday to proceed to long-delayed legislation extending unemployment insurance

Parts political reprimand and parts pragmatic entreaty, President Obama on Wednesday urged congressional lawmakers from both parties to put away the partisan

Well, not quite anymore. A new Hays Research poll from Alaska has Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) popularity falling precipitously from the mid-80s to only 54 percent,

I was surprised that Sarah Palin, who has twice passed on chances to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, agreed to keynote the National Tea

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - Supporters are slowly trickling into Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s election night party at the Hotel Saranac, into a small

CNN and The Huffington Post are reporting that President-elect Barack Obama is close to settling on Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his pick for

An interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is slated to air on the NewsHour tonight and, according to an early transcript, here’s what she says

Laura McGann is twittering live from a press conference with Sarah Palin’s successor as mayor of Wasilla, Dianne Keller. First, a little background on Keller:

Barry Ritholtz posts an anonymous critique of Mark Zandi, one of the most frequently cited economists in Washington. The nameless investment banking analyst

Radio Iowa has the report on a survey in the field in the first 2012 caucus state, asking Republicans voters whether they would support Mike Huckabee, Sarah