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Washington - The Obama administration on Monday proposed the first fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction standards for trucks and buses and said the new program would reduce the nation's …

You can’t turn on the TV news or pick up a paper these days without stumbling across the latest political poll and the pros explaining how to parse it, …

As Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul arrived at the Kentucky senatorial debate on Monday evening, a MoveOn activist attempted to present him with a gag award. The crowd of …

Mexico City - Fourteen teenagers killed at a birthday party Friday. A 19-year-old and 12 others lined up against a wall and shot at a drug rehabilitation center Sunday. …

Extreme anti-choice views don’t do well politically. As Election Day comes ever-closer, and Democrats are looking like they’re going to win elections they would have easily lost if they …

Political donations from nefarious groups are strangling US democracy, and a former Bush adviser is cashing in.

Washington - With a week to go before the elections, independent groups, most of them with sharp partisan leanings, have spent $257.7 million to influence political campaigns, nearly quadrupling …

Washington - A newly released Wikileaks document on Iraq and the new political alignment between Moqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki both provide fresh evidence that Gen. …

Foreclosure fraud is ruffling a lot of feathers on Wall Street, and while the full scope of losses remains unclear, even major banks are now acknowledging that this is …

The United States is not ancient Rome - we are not Romans, and they were not Americans. In an Oct. 2 column in The New York Times, Thomas L. …