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WRAL reports that Elizabeth Edwards passed away today at her home in Chapel Hill after a long bout with cancer. Elizabeth Edwards, the political wife whose

Speaking of the unclear cost of escalating the Afghanistan war, I see via David Dayen and Tim Fernholz that Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), the chairman of the House

The nation’s public health systems are ill-equipped to deal with a major nuclear emergency according to a 2010 analysis by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security

As the clock ticks on the government shutdown — set to go into effect at midnight tonight — one of the largest battles in Congress is over a series of

Republican lawmakers aren’t about to let this one slide. Following the Climategate scandal, which global warming skeptics say casts doubt on the science

In keeping with my pledge to write about climate science more often, I thought I’d share the latest climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Obama tried to carve out a place in the middle of the immigration debate during a speech at American University’s School of International Service today.

Our colleagues at The Iowa Independent have been all over the race for a state legislative seat that the National Organization for Marriage, the

New Mexico environmental groups are airing a TV ad this week asking Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) to use his position as chairman of a key Senate panel to help

President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) The U.S.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi says his government has forged an unprecedented national consensus to defend a stable, democratic country where terrorism and extremist ideologies have little or no support.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision last month to block nearly $500,000 in state film subsidies to the MTV show Jersey Shore has sparked another round

In a webinar with anti-abortion rights activists Tuesday evening, Rep. Michele Bachmann said that she voted against the continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown because it didn’t defund Planned Parenthood and “Obamacare.” She called abortion the “watershed issue of our time” and said she’s prepared to fight “eyeball-to-eyeball” to defund Planned Parenthood in the next continuing resolution in two weeks.

Sen. Marco Rubio , R-Fla., wants to fight water regulations that limit the amount of waste allowed to be dumped in Florida waters. # Rubio’s plan mirrors a similar measure by Rep.

Last week, conservatives grew annoyed with the way Democrats discussed the threats against them -- it was unfair, said critics of the health care bill, to link

This morning, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky, released his latest quarterly report on the state of the Obama

Reuters is reporting that an Alaska environmentalist is returning to court to force the company responsible for the Exxon Valdez oil spill to pay for its long-term ecological consequences: # Exxon has not paid the bill, and the governments have yet to take the matter to court. # Now an Alaska environmentalist is seeking to persuade a federal judge to compel Exxon to pay the $92 million, plus another $23 million in interest. # At stake is more than money that could be used restore a Prince William Sound still injured by the 11 million gallon spill, said Rick Steiner, the retired University of Alaska marine science professor and longtime Alaska activist who filed the motion to compel the payment