The marriage equality bill that’s been creeping up to the starting gate in the New York state senate is going to a vote tonight. The word is it’s going to make it. But nothing official yet. And it ain’t over till it’s over.
Five Russian scientists who worked on the design of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor were among the 44 fatalities on the Tupolev-134 that caught fire and broke apart on an emergency landing near Petrozavodsk on Monday.
Nevada becomes first state to legalize robotic cars.
Documents seized from the bin Laden compound show that in the last months of his life Osama bin Laden believed al Qaeda needed a name change and aggressive rebranding campaign.
We could imagine a future world in which Xe (Blackwater) faced off against Awesome Jihad (al Qaeda).
Dems reveal the tax hike proposals that made Eric Cantor bolt the debt deal negotiations.
Gov. Rick Perry’s effort to reach out to Latino voters with Tequila joke seems to have fallen flat.
Sen. DeMint (R-SC) vows political death for Republicans who vote to increase the debt limit at all. Agreement or no agreement.
What to make of President Obama’s surprising decision to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
One of the original architects of the SPR tells TPM: “I hate to say it because I’m a supporter of the President, but I can’t see it as anything more than a brazen political act to convince people he’s doing something about gas prices.”
Benjy Sarlin has more on the bewildering move.