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Governor Rick Perry today sent a letter to school administrators across the state detailing his efforts to try to access the $830 million in federal funds for Texas schools that Lloyd Doggett's anti-Texas amendment to the federal ...

Summary: Republican brass in Washington and Delaware are stepping up their attack on Christine O'Donnell, who is taking on Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP primary for the Senate seat in Delaware.

Metro editor Jay Ducassi just announced this, Florida's loss but the nation's gain: Beth Reinhard, a Herald veteran whose stellar performance as our political writer for the past four years has earned the respect of her peers nationally ...

A tidbit of information contained in other government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act also suggests politics may be involved. Arpaio's lawyers found a March 11, 2009, e-mail, sent just after the Justice ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who rode voter anger to office in New Jersey last year, is endorsing Mike Castle's bid to win the GOP primary in Delaware and is joining a pack of party leaders trying to block a tea ...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's decision to bypass Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository should give Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a boost in his bid for a fifth term. The action is ...

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA - The people who live in the farther-flung cities of this farthest-flung state take a frontier pride in their physical and cultural distance from the cushy "Lower 48." Many will tell you ...

... is one of the last of the Washington "wise men," figures who ruled Congress, led Cabinet agencies and shaped foreign policy during a less partisan era. The times have changed, as has the tenor of politics — and,

WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is formally opening the first direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in nearly two years, imploring the two sides to make compromises ...

In a recent Washington Post column, Harold Meyerson quotes a member of Working America, a political group founded in 2004 by the AFL-CIO: "When our canvassers call on our members on their doorsteps, they hear Glenn ...

Child welfare officials in Oregon and Washington inked a new agreement Monday that will make it faster and easier to place children who come into foster care with family or close friends on the other side ...

WASHINGTON -- After the news Tuesday that existing home sales fell a dizzying 27 percent in July, talk turned to tax credits. Should the government extend the homebuyer tax credits that had been the main ...

A memo from an adviser to the company that owns the financially struggling The Washington Times says the paper could be sold for $1 to a company affiliated with the Unification Church. The paper was ...

More than $830 million in education funding is at stake today in a meeting between Texas and Washington education officials. Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott is meeting with U.S. Department of ...

according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group. Google spent more than International Business Machines Corp. to become the third- leading Washington lobbying spender among computer ...