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Former congressman and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel won the most votes in Tuesday’s Chicago mayoral election, but he failed to receive the degree of support needed from…
The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee was “remarkably open to many aspects of criminal justice reform” during a White House meeting on Tuesday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told…
WASHINGTON — The American electorate is more diverse than ever, which means Republicans will have to attract a record percentage of minorities to win the presidency in 2016, a GOP…
National Republicansintent on fashioning an orderly nominating process after several chaotic cyclesare threatening trigger-happy primary and caucus states with drastic penalties if they attempt to leapfrog the voting line and…
MADISON, Wis. — The capitol dome here filled quickly Tuesday morning with workers in overalls and hard hats, their jackets signifying proud membership in Wisconsin’s blue-collar unions: steelworkers, ironworkers, pipefitters,…
No charges will be filed against three Los Angeles police officers who fatally shot an unarmed, mentally ill man on live television following a high-speed chase, the city’s top prosecutor…
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said earlier this month that members of the Congressional Black Caucus opposed war because they wanted to spend money on food stamps instead. – Listen…
WASHINGTON — It took the Senate Banking Committee about two minutes on Tuesday to unanimously pass a bill honoring those who walked in the historic 1965 civil rights marches in…
At the same time, new Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is making it clear he will not commit quickly to a time table, and wants assurances the Iraqi military is…
In a Tuesday interview with HuffPost Live, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) discussed how the high cost of the war on drugs prevents law enforcement agencies from getting the funds they…
WASHINGTON — Seven medical groups representing most U.S. physicians are seeking to recast gun-related casualties as a public health crisis, pointing to data that blames firearms for 33,000 U.S. deaths…
READ: Jeb Bush’s foreign policy strategy: ‘I am my own man’ His trip to the Palmetto State will follow a scheduled two-day swing through New Hampshire March 13-14, which comes…
READ: Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case “[We] know of no administrative actions that could, and therefore we have no plans that would, undo the massive damage to our…
WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined on Tuesday an invitation to meet with U.S. Senate Democrats during his trip to Washington next week. “Though I…
When Neha Mahajan’s husband got a job transfer from New Delhi to New Jersey, she was excited to come along. But the thrill faded when the television reporter realized there…
Nuclear talks with Iran Lawmakers were particularly keen to question Kerry on the state of nuclear negotiations with Iran, which continued over the weekend in Geneva. Kerry, who flew back…
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Members of a county Republican Party in Idaho are to take up a measure on Tuesday evening that would declare the…
The comment was a hit in the moment, with Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lopez effusing their support. Now, likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and other…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City must offer more sports opportunities for high school girls in order to comply with federal Title IX provisions, federal officials said in a…
READ: Ginsburg and Scalia on parasailing, elephants and not being ‘100% sober’ Like many retailers Abercrombie has a “look policy” aimed to promote what it calls its “classic East Coast…
NEW YORK — In a surprising about-face, a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators against the New York City Police Department over mass…
www.nytimes.com: WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers…
Hillary Clinton lamented the number of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math at a Silicon Valley women’s conference on Tuesday, and called for more action to…
READ: Kashkari rules out California Senate run – CNN’s Kevin Bohn contributed to this report.
The Justice Department decided to not pursue charges against George Zimmerman — Americans with heart conditions are advised to stay away from their Facebook feed for the next few days….
Marijuana is far safer than alcohol, tobacco and multiple other illicit substances, researchers say, and strict, legal regulation of cannabis might be a more reasonable approach than current prohibitions. Those…
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will not run for California’s open Senate seat in 2016, the Democrat told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. – Harris, who was the…
This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C. Not long ago, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt…
The federal government is powerless to prevent millions from losing health insurance if the Supreme Court rules against President Barack Obama in a lawsuit to be argued next week, Health…
Americans care more about keeping the Department of Homeland Security open than about rolling back President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds — but most…