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Fresh from his stunning victory in Tuesday’s special election to represent South Carolina’s First Congressional District, Mark Sanford (R-SC) is poised to emerge as a thorn in the side to the members of the Washington Republican establishment who abandoned him.

On Monday, Jon Carson, Executive Director of Organizing For America, told a small group of supporters at a New York City fundraising event what everyone in the political world already knew: OFA will stop pretending it’s a 501(c)(4) over the next

The wide open, no-holds-barred race for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia took a bare-knuckle turn this past week when a controversy exploded over a pair of anonymous internet campaign videos that attacked one of the seven declared

Congressman Peter King (R-NY) told CNN’s Candy Crowley Sunday that the FBI should be able to speak directly to Muslim clerics who operate mosques which may be attended by radicalized Islamists.  “My concern,” King told Crowley, “is that when the

PPP, the left leaning polling organization, released a poll on Friday that showed Democratic nominee Ed Markey clinging to a 44% to 40% lead over Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez in the Massachusetts special election to select a new Senator to

Two days after the Massachusetts primary election in which Ed Markey won the Democratic nomination and Gabriel Gomez won the Republican nomination, the Emerson College Polling Society released a poll that shows Markey has only a 42% to 36% lead over

On Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNN that the three University of Massachusetts Dartmouth college students arrested Wednesday on charges related to the Boston Marathon bombings should also be charged as accessories to the murder of

On Thursday, CBS reporter Elaine Quijano told CBS This Morning that “sources tell CBS news the laptop [belonging to Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev] has been recovered.” Investigators will be scouring through the contents of the laptop to determine if it

The Boston Globe reported on Wednesday that “three college students have been arrested by federal authorities in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.” The Globe cited “a law enforcement official familiar with the case,” as their source. Wednesday morning the

Gabriel Gomez, a 47 year old former Navy Seal turned business investor, won a convincing upset victory in Tuesday’s Republican primary in the Massachusetts special election to replace Secretary of State John Kerry in the United States Senate. On the

The Boston Herald reported on Monday that the Massachusetts State House Post Audit and Oversight Committee has now received 500 pages of Tsarnaev family welfare records from the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance.  State Representative David Linsky (D), the committee

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that “[i]nvestigators have found female DNA on at least one of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon attacks.” It is unknown at this time whose DNA it may be “or whether that

On Thursday Fred Smith, CEO of FedEx, a company that consumes “over 1.5 billion gallons” of gasoline per year, told a gathering at the libertarian oriented Cato Institute that “oil has become a geopolitical weapon of choice, both for U.S. interests and against U.S.

Deceased Boston bombing “Suspect 1” Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s American born wife and young daughter were on food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children in Massachusetts during the six months he traveled to and stayed in Russia in early 2012.  The Boston

On Wednesday, the Cambridge Massachusetts District Court made records of the assault case brought against now-deceased suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev public. Earlier in the week, the Committee for Public Council Services, the Massachusetts public defender’s office, had filed

CNN reported on Friday that Zubeidat Tsarnaev, the mother of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was placed on the federal government’s terror watch list in 2011.  According to CNN, Tsarnaev was added to the list in response to warnings

In a letter to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) claimed that passing the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill will improve the national security of the United States.  According to Reid, “[t]he bipartisan immigration reform

Numerous phone calls and email requests by Breitbart News to the Department of Homeland Security to obtain information on the citizenship status of Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, 45, mother of Boston bombing ‘Suspect 1,’ the now deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and ‘Suspect 2,’

As law enforcement and media continues to explore the reportedly religious motivations of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the respectively slain and captive suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, the fundamentalist faith of their mother provides extra insight into their religious

The lawyer for Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, the widow of Boston bombing ‘Suspect 1’ Tamerlan Tsarnaev, issued a statement Tuesday on her behalf. It said, in part, that “she is doing everything she can to assist with the investigation.” The statement was

On Friday, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, announced the RNC raised $18.02 million during the first quarter of 2013, 27% less than the $25.2 million in receipts the RNC reported in the first quarter of 2009. Both reports were filed to

On Tuesday, Massachusetts Health and Human Services spokesperson Alec Loftus confirmed to the Boston Herald that deceased Boston bombing ‘Suspect 1’ Tamerlan Tsarnaev received welfare benefits from the state until 2012: State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in

Breitbart News has learned that a motion to impound the records of the assault case against now deceased Boston bombing “Suspect 1,” Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Docket Number 0952CR001848), has been filed in the Massachusetts District Court where a judge dismissed the