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WASHINGTON — Roland Burris isn’t the only would-be U.S. senator whose arrival in D.C. will be…

WASHINGTON - The man who called gay marriage “morally equivalent to allowing brothers and sisters to marry,” is going to deliver a religious invocation at President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in. He described abortion as a “holocaust.”

He’s Rick Warren, the pastor at 20,000-member…

WASHINGTON - Some of the most generous contributors to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation are world leaders that his wife, Secretary of State-designee Hillary Clinton, will engage as the nation’s top diplomat.

According to a list of donors released on Clinton’s Web…

Will Tom Vilsack represent more than Iowa in Washington?

WASHINGTON — At first blush, Barack Obama’s selection today of Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary seems no great gift to reformers.

After all, Vilsack was governor of Iowa, where farmers received $3.76 billion (with a “b”) in federal…

WASHINGTON - A turnout rise among African Americans and college-educated youth propelled Barack Obama to a presidential victory and the country to its highest voter turnout since 1960, according to a report released today by voter guru Curt Gans, the head of the…

WASHINGTON - Actor Robert Redford lent his celebrity to a coalition of environmental groups Wednesday that announced a lawsuit against the Interior Department to prevent the Bush Administration from auctioning off 110,000 acres of Utah wilderness.

“What you keep getting shocked about is how…

Ex-Speaker and GOP tactician Newt Gingrich says his party should lighten up on Barack Obama.

WASHINGTON — Should national Republicans be fixated on the relationship, if any, between Barack Obama and Gov. Rod Blagojevich?

By some accounts, it’s about the best holiday gift that the GOP…

WASHINGTON — That’s what Barack Obama was told when he asked the White House to let his family move early into Blair House so his daughters could start school on Jan. 5.

So reports the New York Times this afternoon, adding the White…

WASHINGTON - The contest is in overtime and challenger Al Franken appears to be on the offensive in his race against Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican, following a pair of rulings by the Minnesota Canvassing Board.

The board recommended the inclusion…

WASHINGTON - What did we learn about presidential politics at the conclusion of a nearly two-year race that culminated in the election of Barack Obama? Don’t irritate David Letterman, at least that was the lesson learned by Rick Davis, who…