Can $250,000 buy a senator?
By Michael BeckeliWatch NewsIn the aftermath of Tuesday's Republican U.S. Senate primary in Nebraska, campaign finance watchdogs are concerned about...
By Michael BeckeliWatch NewsIn the aftermath of Tuesday's Republican U.S. Senate primary in Nebraska, campaign finance watchdogs are concerned about...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.16.2012
Pro-pot groups have reason to celebrate: Ellen Rosenblum, a retired appellate court judge who's been vocal in her support for Oregon's medical marijua...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.09.2012
Medical marijuana has become the defining issue of the race to decide Oregon's next attorney general. Dwight Holton, a former federal prosecutor, will...
David Fagin | Posted 04.06.2012
What he said: "The president's remarks were fully consistent with the principles described herein." What he meant: "Back off. Barack's my boy. If you come at him, you come at me, and everyone else in this joint!"
AP | Posted 05.27.2012
LANSING, Mich. — A state hearing officer has upheld the 2010 firing of an assistant attorney general who was accused of harassing the gay studen...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.26.2012
By Susan Ferriss, iWatch NewsIn 2004, the National Rifle Association honored Republican Florida state legislator Dennis Baxley with a plum endorseme...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 03.12.2012
The massive settlement among states, the federal government and five of the biggest banks landed on Monday, at last, in a Washington, D.C., federal di...
Posted 03.09.2012
Councilman Peter Vallone took to his Facebook page on Thursday evening to respond to Attorney General Eric Holder's criticism of the NYPD's surveillan...
Abigail Caplovitz Field | Posted 04.15.2012
What are "Agreements in Principle"? Everyone in the know knows there's no deal yet, just promises from the ever-so-trustworthy bankers and the Feds that cater to them.
Dennis M. Kelleher | Posted 04.11.2012
It's like saying rather than drowning in a lake 50 feet deep, you get to drown in a lake that is only 30 feet deep. And, people are taking victory laps? You don't believe any of that and still think what the politicians said about punishing the banks was true?
HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 02.04.2012
As states gear up to finalize a national mortgage servicing settlement, some are looking to avoid the painful lessons of a 2008 mortgage deal that fai...
HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.30.2012
As the Obama administration, state attorneys general and the nation's biggest banks close in on a settlement over allegations of widespread mortgage f...
HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.12.2012
New Yorkers struggling to keep their homes are about to get additional help. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has approved $1 million in fundi...
Don McNay | Posted 02.29.2012
-I hope this letter finds it way to you. -R. Dean Taylor (Indiana Wants Me ) I had a health scare over the past several weeks, which included a co...
Patrick Murphy | Posted 02.20.2012
We deserve a good faith effort on behalf of the banks to make their victims, the American people, whole again. As it stands, the proposed settlement does none of these things.
The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.12.2011
An outspoken critic of big banks and their mortgage practices leading up to the financial crisis may be tasked with making sure they comply with a lon...
Posted 11.30.2011
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is launching an investigation into possibly illegal foreclosures on homes owned by members of the military...
HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 11.23.2011
As state attorneys general continue to pursue a national settlement with mortgage companies to resolve claims of improper handling of foreclosure proc...
Rep. Maxine Waters | Posted 01.17.2012
The banks hope that we'll see all the zeros and think that they've actually given us something. But California Attorney General Kamala Harris is not buying it. Instead of pressuring Harris to go with the flow, the rest of the attorneys general should follow her lead.
Jane Buckingham | Posted 01.17.2012
I am a fan of technology for my children, and I love their iTouches and that they can FaceTime with grandparents in England, discover new music, do educational games, and yes, even entertain themselves sometimes. But KIKing. Kiking is killing me.
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.28.2011
As the Occupy Wall Street movement enters its seventh week of protest against income inequality, some Midwestern Occupiers are zeroing in on housing i...
Posted 12.21.2011
As it does every year, pink is popping up all around for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Clothing labels, your morning caffeine dose, and make...
Aggie R. Hoffman | Posted 12.19.2011
If you have been deceived or suffered injury, take advantage of the law that was enacted for your benefit. Not only will you be helping yourself, but your actions will assist law enforcement to punish and put the offender out of business.
Posted 12.04.2011
House Republicans have asked the White House to appoint a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied during his testimony ...
Dory Rand | Posted 11.07.2011
Widespread reckless practices, not just related to the robo-signing scandal, caused the ongoing financial and foreclosure crisis, and these practices deserve careful consideration. There should be further, close investigations on this front.
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012