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House Republicans late Thursday were able to corral enough votes to defeat a bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to those sickened by toxins resulting from the 9/11 attacks.
"President Obama waded into the national race debate in an unlikely setting and with an unusual choice of words: telling daytime talk show hosts that African-Americans are 'sort of a mongrel people.'"
Dozens of protesters were arrested after confronting police in riot gear in Phoenix today. The protesters waved the Mexican flag and a flag with Communist Che Guevara as they protested Arizona's recent crackdown on illegal immigration.
Sarah Palin just endorsed two Republican congressional candidates in New York. That may hurt them more than it helps them.
Hey, when you can't govern competently, it's always a good idea to use Saul Alinsky tactics to change the subject and demonize the opposition.
Most Americans think a GOP Congress would be better at running the economy, but few can tell you just what that means.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — New Prime Minister Julia Gillard assured Australia's Christian majority on Thursday that her atheism would not affect government funding to church-run schools if she is re-elected. Gillard, who was sworn in last month and promptly called elections, was the first prime minister in the federation's 109-year history to...
Inside the Glenn Beck Goldline scheme
A House investigatory panel is alleging 13 violations of congressional ethics and federal law statutes by veteran New York Representative Charles Rangel.
Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week. Sherrod made the announcement Thursday in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention.
Today, President Obama wades in to a controversy that threatens to split one of the Democratic Party's most generous source of donations and activists, the teacher unions, from the whole.
Porn downloaded by city workers, on city time. Just when you thought the ongoing porn scandal within the city's planning department couldn't grow any more bizarre, along come a nude man, a chainsaw, and a hula hoop.
Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to complain about the media's "heart of darkness" as evidenced by e-mail exchanged on an ostensibly private listserv called JournoList concerning a conspiracy theory about her son Trig. "There is a sickness and darkness in today's liberal media," Palin writes.
A group called 'Stop Islamization of America' is promoting ads on major city public transportation that urge people to leave the Muslim faith. The anti-Islamic campaign is sparking thought about the religion's place in American society.
Arizona sheriffJoe Arpaio says he'll put immigration protesters in jail. The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he's "not going to put up with any civil disobedience" when the state's new immigration law takes effect.
Fox News breaks down the ruling by District Judge Susan Bolton to explain which parts of the law was struck down, or enjoined, and which parts are still going to take effect on Thursday.
Massachusetts is poised to become the sixth state to approve a law intended to bypass the Electoral College and elect the president of the United States by popular vote.
Pothead Power, people. California's Proposition 19, which would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for adults 21 and older, is currently leading by a wide margin among state voters, according to a new poll. The measure is supported by 52 percent of voters, and opposed by only 36 percent.
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A federal judge "has" blocked controversial sections of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect.
The Iowa Republican Party wants to resurrect a long-forgotten attempt to amend the Constitution in order to criticize President Obama. It is not about slavery, but about Mr. Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
U.S. consumer confidence fell in July to the lowest level since February, weighed mostly by worries about the job market, according to a private sector report released Tuesday.The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes fell to 50.4 in July from a revised 54.3 in June.
Military investigators are checking computers used by Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking classified information, to see if he is the source of thousands of documents published by WikiLeaks.
If there were only some rock and roll to go with the sex and drugs, this would be a perfect story. Prop 19, California's initiative to legalize marijuana, has a wealthy donor: the president of Adam & Eve, a mail order firm selling sex toys and porn.
In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers.
President Barack Obama, who rocketed to the White House promising "change you can believe in," is now telling voters they shouldn't change a thing.
Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck has talked himself into some trouble by calling certain tea-party activists "dumbasses" for questioning the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate.
Thousands of mentally disabled immigrants are entangled in deportation proceedings each year with little or no legal help, leaving them distraught, defenseless and detained as their fates are decided. Their plight is detailed in a report issued Sunday by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Vladimir Putin has told of singing patriotic songs with the Russian spies expelled from the US in his most revealing comments on the case so far.
The mainstream media and the Obama administration must stop cowering before a right wing that has persistently forced its propaganda to be accepted as news by convincing traditional journalists that "fairness" requires treating extremist rants as "one side of the story."
With a $13 trillion debt, why is the Department of Justice spending money on parties and rollercoaster rides rather than investigating crime, drug cartels, prosecuting terrorists? Questionable Spending at the Department of Justice is Poorly Monitored. Many of the grants are earmarked by Congress without the normal public review. Justice Department
A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.
