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AP Photo A sect of hard-right Republicans is celebrating their loss in a New York House race - but that's just the beginning of a plan to purge moderates.

As the dust settled from Tuesday's elections, one of next year's potentially bruising campaigns came into focus on Wednesday as Carly Fiorina , a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a Republican, declared her candidacy for the Senate seat long held by Barbara Boxer , a Democrat.

Democratic candidates in several races came out to meet the voters Thursday at the Aiken County Democratic Party's seventh annual Fish Fry.

The Senate has defeated an amendment that would have kept the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks out of ordinary federal courts - leaving military commissions as the only option for trying the terror suspects.

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept.

In this June 1 photo reviewed by the U.S. military, Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees show a home-made note to visiting members of the media, at Camp Iguana detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

Local and national gay activists are celebrating a new federal hate crimes bill but say South Carolina still needs its own hate crimes law.

Voters in northern York County gave Ralph Norman a political comeback on Tuesday, choosing the Republican real estate developer over Democrat Kathy Cantrell in a state House special election.According to unofficial results, Norman earned 72 percent of the vote to recapture the District 48 seat he held for a term before an unsuccessful 2006 run ...

In the wake of the Senate Finance Committee's October 13 passage of a health care reform bill, the fifth such bill passed out of congressional committees this year, numerous media figures have advanced the claim that the bill and the process of crafting health reform more generally was overly partisan, and have blamed Democrats.

President Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hates Prevention Act during a White House signing ceremony on Wednesday.

I don't know much about economics. What I do know is that so many so-called "experts," including politicians and economists, are wrong far more often than they are right.

The White House said Friday no decisions have been made about transferring detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Navy brig in Charleston or other prisons on the U.S. mainland.

In a victory for gay rights activists, crimes targeting people because of their sexual orientation are now federal hate crimes, but many are still speaking out against the new measure.

Try this: "H-Y-P-O-C-O-N-G-R-E-S-S." The hypocongress consists of those Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats who have risen up on their hind legs in recent weeks to snarl and howl at any mention of a government role in meeting America's health care needs.

Rachel Maddow talks to Steve Benen about the Republican infighting going on in the New York 23rd District's special election.

President Barack Obama signed into law a historic and contentious defense spending bill Wednesday that includes a broad expansion of hate-crimes legislation to include crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation.

Tonight Keith Olbermann awarded conservative columnist George Will the medal for "World's Best Person" for his revelation that controversial Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was once the nanny of Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson.

WASHINGTON a ' Members of both the House and Senate are going on the record to commend WND for its dramatic "pink slips" campaign notifying members of Congress that they will be permanently "pink-slipped" in 2010 if they vote for bigger and more intrusive government.

On September 23, two days after deposed President Mel Zelaya's return, Honduran riot police stand ready to disperse a peaceful protest march in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital.

Two Republican chairmen in South Carolina have apologized for an op-ed article that made a clumsy comment about wealthy Jews being fiscally prudent.