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CampaignUSA 2012: Mitt Flip-Flops on 'Tax,' Walsh vs. Duckworth, Much More! | The Nation

A North Carolina state representative says she voted mistakenly to override the governor's veto of a bill to allow the shale gas exploration called "fracking" but was told she couldn't change it because this would have altered the outcome. Democratic Rep.

CampaignUSA 2012: New Polls, Primary Results, Predictions and More | The Nation

CampaignUSA 2012: Obama's New Dashboard, 'Daily Show' Heckling, More! | The Nation

CampaignUSA 2012: 'Limitless' Millions from Adelson for Romney, Much More! | The Nation

CampaignUSA 2012: Dems Hold Giffords' Seat, Daily Show On Vote Purge, More! | The Nation

CampaignUSA 2012 for June 12: New Daily Blog Launched Today! | The Nation

Before Wisconsin: When Big 'Outside' Money First Dominated a Key Political Campaign | The Nation

Bradley Manning Marks Two Years in Custody as Trial Nears | The Nation

Today, the Obama administration announced that it has finalized regulations implementing the Prison Rape Elimination Act. According to an executive summary provided to members of the media and a conference call held with reporters, the regulations include provisions relating to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and gender nonconforming inmates" -- a development a leading LGBT advocate calls one of the most important LGBT advancements in the administration.

MESFIN FEKADU Published: 10 minutes ago FILE - In this Jan. 12, 1979 file photo, singer Donna Summer poses with three awards she won at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Calif. Summer, the Queen of Disco who ruled the dance floors with anthems like "Last Dance," "Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girl," has died.

Richard Kim's article on an underemployed puppeteer with student loan debt has been widely mocked. Alex Tabbarok uses the story as further evidence that the young are picking degrees unwisely: What astounds me is not that someone could amass $35,000 in student loans pursuing a dream of puppetry, everyone has their dreams and I do not fault Joe for his.

One of my first assignments as a college student journalist for the Brown Daily Herald was covering the suicide of a sophomore, who killed herself while home for October break. I remember feeling sick to my stomach as I walked to the girl's dormitory to interview her shocked, grieving friends.

Obama's backing for Super Pac funding was controversial, but it's grassroots donors' best way to influence the 2012 election When Obama's re-election campaign announced that it would begin to play nice with Super Pacs - independent groups that can raise unlimited cash in support of a political candidate - many of Obama's progressive supporters cried foul.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List plans to endorse Rick Santorum for president. The group is announcing Friday it will back the former Pennsylvania senator over Mitt Romney and the other Republican hopefuls. It's the first time the group has endorsed in a presidential primary.

Tomgram: Ari Berman, The Politics of the Super Rich Posted by Ari Berman at 9:46am, February 16, 2012. America has a serious air pollution problem. Kathleen Hall Jamieson is hell-bent on fixing it. "Air pollution," in this case, doesn't mean CO2, methane, or anything else in the poisonous cocktail of gases helping warm our planet.

Jeremy Lin will soon have to learn to play with Carmelo Anthony, as well as one of Anthony's former Denver Nuggets teammate. The Knicks are closing in on a deal to sign free agent shooting guard J.R. Smith, the Daily News has learned.

text size: T T Innovation February 14, 2012, 11:47 PM EST When Yao Ming retired from the National Basketball Assn. last July, followers of Chinese basketball lamented that none of his countrymen were ready to take his place.

Her origins were grimly ordinary. Born in 1879, the sixth child of eleven, Margaret Higgins saw her middle-aged mother die in 1899, debilitated by childbearing and the struggles of caring for a large family on the meager income of an irresponsible husband.