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A St. Louis Public Schools student has been selected as one in five students in the nation to attend the Characters Unite National Town Hall.

The number of organizations that can offer their donors a tax break in the name of charity has grown more than 60 percent in the United States, to 1.1 million, in just a decade.

I write about trade so I feel that I should say something about the trade ministers' meeting that concluded yesterday in Geneva.

USA Network and Tom Brokaw are co-hosting the first ever Characters Unite National Town Hall on healing divisions in America.

The Social Security Administration has made headway in reducing backlogs in disability claims but still has work to do, witnesses told a House panel on Thursday.

DWP has a new theory on water main breaks, Xavier Becerra in trouble with the Speaker, a book deal for Andrew Breitbart and more after the jump.

California Democrat Xavier Becerra has learned a lesson about calling out Nancy Pelosi.

NBC News' Tom Brokaw and the USA Network are teaming for "Characters Unite National Town Hall" -- the first- time-ever panel discussion about American diversity and the complex social issues facing the populace.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, speaks as others, including Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., left, and Rep.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conjured up plenty of old ghosts since launching the health care fight back in July, invoking Democrats who laid the foundation for this yeara TMs push a ' like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

DAN STEIN is president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform . Contact: comments@ fairus.org * October 31, 2009 In less than six months the decennial census will determine the apportionment of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives for the next 10 years.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says new health care legislation will make affordable, quality health care available to nearly all Americans and represents a historic step.

October 24, 2009---Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet welcomed United States Congressman Xavier Becerra to the City of Palm Springs during an event hosted by The Desert Foundation For Democracy at Hotel Zoso.

Rep. Alan Grayson netted $114,108 in the first day after he became a liberal sensation last month by using the House floor to deride GOP health care plans as amounting to a prescription for Americans to 'die quickly.' Rep.

The National Museum of the American Latino moved one step closer to reality Tuesday with a kickoff event at the U.S. Capitol for the museum's commission featuring Hollywood actress Eva Longoria Parker and music producer Emilio Estefan.

Talking to Simon Johnson of the Atlantic Monthly , he explained that one of the most alarming truths laid bare by the economic crash was that the finance industry had effectively captured the thinking of government.

The calendar kept by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shows he talked to the biggest names in banking at least 80 in his first seven months in office, a review by the Associated Press reveals .

On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will join bipartisan members of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission, activist/actor Eva Longoria-Parker, producer Emilio Estefan, Chairman of the Latino Commission Henry R. Munoz III and bipartisan Members of Congress to announce the leadership of the Commission ...

Enterprising work by the Associated Press's Matt Apuzzo and Daniel Wagner reveals Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner's appointment calendar for the year.

A small group of Republicans and Democrats in the House met Wednesday night to talk health care reform, the first signs of a thaw on the contentious issue in the ultra-partisan chamber.