For years, the chief punishment for immigrants caught working illegally in the United States was deportation. Now they can face criminal charges such as identity theft,...

For years, the chief punishment for immigrants caught working illegally in the United States was deportation. Now they can face criminal charges such as identity theft,...

Today, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel is holding the first congressional hearings on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t...

USAToday reports: Democrats in Congress hope to ignite a drive to reverse the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy Wednesday with the first hearing on the subject...

In this video (in Spanish) O2B candidate Joe Garcia essentially accuses the right-wing Cuban-American Frank Calzon of the Center for Free Cuba of essentially pilfering...

A military judge ruled yesterday that prosecutors in the trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former driver, “cannot use as evidence some...

The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of State...

WWLRocky flight with Congress members lands safelyCNN - 37 minutes ago(CNN) -- A plane carrying Texas Rep. Ron Paul and six other members of Congress was forced to...

In his weekly radio address, President Bush said, "Next week Congress will return to Washington after its Memorial Day recess. I hope Members of Congress return rested,...

Another cool chart from the Monkey Change which compares the ideological distribution of the electorate to that of the House and Senate. All three curves are bimodal,...

While Congress is struggling to address plummeting home values and mortgage meltdowns, some members of Congress are facing another kind of housing crisis: Questions have...

By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © 2008 Native American Journalists Foundation, Inc. A Paradigm Shift in Indian Country July 20, 2008 There is a paradigm shift in...

Let me get this straight. It's perfectly fair for Barack Obama and his cohorts to repeatedly disparage President Bush's foreign policy as "cowboy diplomacy" but...

The American Optometric Association (AOA) applauds Members of Congress from both parties for voting to override President Bush's veto of legislation passed to stop...

Senator Barak Obama visited Google today and spent about 90 minutes in our cafe talking and answering questions. He was in Silicon Valley to introduce his plan for...

Show Us a Better Way: What Would You Create With Public Onformation? - “The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way...

Asked at Netroots Nation, whether she'll work to end abstinence-only sex ed, she answers "Yes." They are "a poor and a bad policy," and are "dangerous to the health of...

A fun tempest in a teapot is brewing in Congress over whether new rules regarding how Members of Congress and their staffs can communicate on the Internet. TechPresident...

I was invited to testify today at the Subcommittee of Internet and Telecom on Capitol Hill today along with others. I was joined by Dr David Reed from MIT, Robert Dykes,...

NY Times: In House, tweets fly over Web plan. Here's what has happened in response to a Democratic House leader's proposal:The popular conservative blog, Red State,...