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A Nashville judge has dismissed a misdemeanor domestic violence charge against gospel singer BeBe Winans after determining he had seen a counselor as required by prosecutors.

Sarah Palin says the United States should rededicate itself to seeking God's will, arguing a humble spirit could help leaders get more answers on issues such as health care, energy and national security.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Gov. Tim Pawlenty can't see Russia from his house. Neither could former Alaska Gov.

USA Track and Field has proposed a budget of $21 million for next year, a 40 percent increase over 2009 thanks largely to a new marketing deal with Nike.

Hundreds of supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal - the political prisoner who has been held on Pennsylvania's death-row for 28 years, accused of murdering a Philadelphia police officer - marched to the U.S. Department of Justice to deliver thousands of petitions to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a civil rights investigation of his case.

This weekend, the U.S. Secret Service interviewed the Virginia couple who somehow made their way into last week's White House state dinner.

Let's see. I seem to remember a declarative, emphatic promise from candidate Barack Obama, something about "a new transparency in government." Yes, and a resounding, fervent promise by the newly elected President Obama: "My administration will bring a new transparency in our governance." That sounded so good, didn't it? Over the last several ...

Click to enlargeA group calling itself the Alaska Wild Salmon Protection, Inc. recently ran full-page advertisements in Politico against development of the Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska.

November 23, 2009 4:31 pm ET - On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh mentioned Sen. Al Franken and the "senator who replaced Ted Stevens" -- Sen.

A bill signed by President Obama three weeks ago includes a requirement that sole-source federal contracts can not be awarded for more than $20 million unless they are justified in writing and in public.

By now, nearly everyone with a television has seen the teases for former Alaska Gov.

A $1 million BP donation to the University of Alaska Fairbanks will allow the Rasmuson Library to catalog and process more than 4,500 boxes of papers and media from the congressional career of former U.S. Sen.

In a visit to the southern Kenai Peninsula this week, Senate President Gary Stevens reminded a Homer Chamber of Commerce audience of Alaskans' dichotomous nature.

A lawyer for a former state lawmaker argued Tuesday that his client's corruption conviction should be thrown out because the same federal prosecutors in former U.S. Sen.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee.

U.S. military defense lawyers for accused 9/11 conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh cannot learn what interrogation techniques CIA agents used on the Yemeni before he was moved to Guantanamo to be tried as a terrorist, an Army judge has ruled.

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd again makes history this week. On Wednesday Byrd, D-W.Va, becomes the longest-serving member ever in the U.S. Congress.

The primary ethical and legal duty of a criminal prosecutor is to serve the interests of justice-not their personal interests of winning at any costs as is too often the case with a many prosecutors.

Health legislation? Environmental legislation? How about more capital project money for local needs? This is your chance to tell us and Sen.

Shepard Fairey has a new legal team and new questions he must answer. The street artist known for his Barack Obama "HOPE" image will be permitted to switch attorneys in his copyright fight against The Associated Press, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.