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Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in ...

A possible speedup in the shutdown plans for General Motors' Janesville plant prompted Sen.

The teachers' union for the nation's largest public school system accused the city on Friday of banning political campaign buttons and sued to reverse the policy, declaring that free speech rights were ...

Options appear to have run out for an Ohio condemned killer who has argued he is too fat to be executed humanely by lethal injection.

If you're a Democrat who needs help getting the votes of rural white folks, the go-to guy is David "Mudcat" Saunders, a central-casting political consultant recently made famous by a parade of magazine writers ...

With federal authorities stepping up immigration enforcement raids across the country, Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey are sponsoring a bill to protect the rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents who get caught up in them.

The Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Raids and Detention Act was introduced on Sept. 25 to push for more stringent legal procedures to be followed by authorities executing immigration-related searches and warrants.

Immigration officials have conducted a series of high-profile workplace raids across the country in recent months, including one earlier this week at a poultry processing plant in Greenville, S.C.

Private markets fail, politicians from both parties jump to their rescue, and taxpayers get stuck with the bill.

The bodies of the brother of two Southern California congresswomen and his girlfriend have been recovered from the waters off Los Angeles, days after the couple disappeared during a boat trip, authorities said ...

Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii says senators have "absolute faith" in Alaska GOP Sen.

Election '08: At an education forum in Venezuela, Bill Ayers showed the real issue is not his terrorist past. It's the socialist revolutionary agenda that he and Barack Obama want to impose on the nation's schools.

Still more evidence of how the media are in the tank for Obama was evident in Tom Brokaw's description of Ayers on Sunday's "Meet The Press."

"School reformer" is how Brokaw identified the co-founder of the Weather Underground, the radical organization that, among other activities, bombed government buildings, banks, police departments and military bases in the early 1970s.

Yeah, right: Ayers is a school reformer in the same sense, as City Journal's Sol Stern put it, as Joe Stalin was an agricultural reformer.

WHEN John Murtagh was 9 years old, Bill Ayers' friends tried to kill him.

"I remember my mother's pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn't leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside," wrote Murtagh recently in City Journal.

It wasn't personal. John's dad was a judge presiding over a trial of some Black Panthers. John still remembers the red graffiti on the sidewalk the next morning: "Free the Panther 21; The Viet Cong Have Won; Kill the Pigs."

As best he recalls, Bernardine Dohrn, who's now Ayers' wife, first claimed credit for bombing John's home in 1970.

Here's how Hillary Clinton can take the oath of office as President of the United States in January 2009:

1. Jerome Corsi gathers compelling evidence that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and is therefore NOT a "natural born American" and NOT eligible to be President of the United States

2. Hillary supporters file lawsuits in several states to replace Obama on the ballot with Hillary.

3. Obama fails to win enough electoral votes on November 4 to be elected president:

4. After the election, Hillary expands law suits to all states won by Obama and asks the courts to rule Obama ineligible.

5. Hillary lobbies Obama electors to switch to Hillary.

6. Electoral college casts votes on December 15. Hillary wins 270 electoral votes

7. Hillary sworn in as president in January 2006

8. Barack Obama appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme court; Michelle Obama appointed Justice of the Supreme Court; Bill Clinton nominated as Secretary General of the United Nations.

Book it.

The Respected Doofinator

In his liberal Colorado district, it's no big deal that Jared Polis is gay. Yet his expected victory Nov.

WASHINGTON - Executives at American International Group Inc. hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released yesterday by a congressional ...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a slim 2-point lead on Republican rival John McCain in a tight White House race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

MAKING THEIR CASE: Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama and Republican nominee Senator John McCain greet each other at the beginning of the presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville.

Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., had denounced Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis as a racially motivated, veiled attack on the poor.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson turned to a familiar source when he picked a director for the government's $700 billion bailout program: his former Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs.

Neel Kashkari, a former Goldman executive who has worked with Paulson at the department since July 2006, was chosen Monday as the interim head of the government's unprecedented effort to unclog the credit markets.

Kashkari, who was a vice president in Goldman's San Francisco office before joining the department, is one of four former executives from the firm now working feverishly to resolve the financial crisis.

Fuld testifies before the House committee on oversight & government reform; Shays: Congress is to blame for the financial meltdown; Analysis by Rep.