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With the election 10 days out, the Republican National Committee and RNC chair Michael Steele brought in one of the GOP's biggest names, former veep contender/Alaska governor Sarah Palin, to rally a full slate of state Republican candidates, at the...

By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau Governor-elect Rick Scott and other newly elected Florida Republicans on Friday urged the EPA to delay new water standards designed to clean up the state’s rivers, streams and lakes. They joined a chorus of...

By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — A dozen Florida Republicans led by Congressman Tom Rooney pressured Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson on Wednesday to vote for big spending cutbacks to rein in the federal deficit. They were talking...

The liberal group Organize Now plans to protest a Republican plan to change Medicare by rallying outside select GOP congressional offices — including U.S. Rep. Dan Webster's — while dressed as zombies. The group is encouraging members to...

By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON  — Like the rest of the House, Central Florida members of Congress divided along party lines on the 245-to-189 vote Wednesday to repeal the new health care law.  The region’s Republica...

Remember when a crusading president, acting on dubious intelligence, insufficient information and exaggerated fears, took the nation into a Middle Eastern war of choice? That was George W. Bush in 2003, invading Iraq. But it's also Barack Obama in 2011,...

Not so long ago, the way to convey that something was extreme was to simply call it extreme ("X" for short.) There were extreme sports (think bungee jumping), extreme tourism (think traveling in order to bungee jump) and, of course, the "Extreme Makeover"...

by Mark Silva Hillary Rodham Clinton, "chief diplomat for the United States of America,'' maintains that North Korea's provocative missile launches demand "very strong action,'' and says flatly that the United States would be forced to respond if Iran...

by Mike Dorning Kenneth Feinberg, the latest Obama administration official the news media have anointed "czar," hardly has the kind of power that would impress Ivan the Terrible or Peter the Great. Feinberg, widely described as the White House's "pay........

by Mark Silva David Axelrod, making the rounds of news shows tonight to polish the administration's messages coming out of President Barack Obama's news conference today, talked about the talk the administration is having about Iran and North Korea. The.....

by Mark Silva No hot potatoes here. One former Republican vice president may be giving the Obama administration a hard time lately, but another is offering a measured assessment of the new regime. Dan Quayle, former vice president of the......

by Mark Silva and updated It's 3 a.m. The telephone is ringing in the White House. Wrong number. The national security line has been set on call-forwarding to the Naval Observatory, the vice president's domain. The crisis hot-lines are ringing......