With John McCain in Mexico Thursday and Barack Obama polling off the charts in Canada, the Caribbean is also weighing in on the U.S. presidential election, as a slew of Obama-inspired calypso songs are popping up across the islands….

Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff and President Bush’s top political advisor, is refusing to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify on "politicization" within the Justice Dept. Rove had been scheduled to appear next Thursday, …

…and he’s crisscrossing the state of Pennsylvania with former Democratic Senator Harris Wofford. Two years after his reelection defeat, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) is calling on his fellow Pennsylvanians to put partisanship aside and pressure both presidential candidates to …

GOP senators continue to take steps to stop the bleeding following Thursday night’s rejection of a Democratic effort to forestall cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors. Mississippi Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker lashed back at the American Medical …

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) sent the American Medical Association into a tizzy Thursday night by switching his vote and blocking passage of a crucial Medicare bill. The flip came after the White House offered to work with him on …

Barack Obama’s decision to opt out of public financing may have attracted plenty of attention lately, but the presidential election isn’t the only race where campaign finance is a subject of hot debate.

In his race against …

As of yesterday, doctors are technically to be reimbursed 10.6 percent less than they were the day before for treating Medicare patients. To postpone that from happening, the administration can take advantage of some wiggle room in the law regarding when …

In September 2007, the Kurdish Regional Government, which runs the semi-autonomous region of Northern Iraq, announced that it had entered into an oil contract with U.S.-based Hunt Oil. The deal complicated negotiations over a revenue-sharing agreement and the Bush administration …

Democratic House candidate Darcy Burner lost her home yesterday in a fire from which her family narrowly escaped unscathed. It appears that the fire began with a wiring problem in the room of Burner’s five-year-old son Henry, who awakened Burner …

The Houston Chronicle (hat tip propublica.org) is reporting that Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) sought a waiever from federal ethanol mandates after a corporate donor gave $100,000 to the Republican Governors Association, which Perry chairs.

Lonnie ‘Bo’ Pilgrim, of poultry …