Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales  —  In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world's largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France.

Cain wins straw poll at GOP women's forum  —  GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain won this weekend's straw poll at the National Federation of Republican Women's Convention reports NBC News.  —  Cain received 48.9 percent of the vote, well ahead of the second place finisher Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 14.1 percent.

Why business despairs of Obama  —  Take a deep breath.  The industrialised world, America included, seems stuck in one of those horror movies, where the monster, thought to be slain, morphs into something even more scary.  The fear is that a double-dip, or worse, is now upon us.

Warren, Brown in dead heat: UMass Lowell/Herald poll  —  Joe K, Deval would do better  —  Democrat Elizabeth Warren's meteoric ascent in Massachusetts politics has landed her in a virtual dead heat with Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, while two Democrats who passed on the race …

What if the NFL Played by Teachers' Rules?  —  Imagine a league where players who make it through three seasons could never be cut from the roster.  —  Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality.  Each player's salary is based on how long he's been in the league.

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New State Laws Are Limiting Access for Voters  —  Since Republicans won control of many statehouses last November, more than a dozen states have passed laws requiring voters to show photo identification at polls, cutting back early voting periods or imposing new restrictions on voter registration drives.

ABC News, Yahoo! News Announce Online Alliance  —  Yahoo!, the premier digital media company, and ABC News today announced they will join forces to launch a strategic online news alliance that will deliver content to more than 100 million U.S. users each month.

Holding China to Account  —  The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of many players.  Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldn't stop us from holding individual bad actors to account.  —  And that's what Senate leaders will be doing this week …

Why Did the New York Times Change Their Brooklyn Bridge Arrests Story?  —  ​The above photo of juxtaposed screenshots from the New York Times website has been making the rounds on Facebook, and it shows two very different takes for the same story on yesterday's Brooklyn Bridge arrests.

A U.S.-Backed Geothermal Plant Struggles  —  WASHINGTON — In a remote desert spot in northern Nevada, there is a geothermal plant run by a politically connected clean energy start-up that has relied heavily on an Obama administration loan guarantee and is now facing financial turmoil.

Eric Cantor's America  —  The House majority leader is trying to stop the U.S. government in its tracks.  And so far, he's doing a pretty effective job.  —  On a stormy evening in early September, a couple of hours before Barack Obama would present his new jobs plan to a joint session of Congress …

Hill Poll delivers mixed message for Obama  —  A plurality of likely voters think President Obama and congressional Democrats will be more effective in reducing unemployment than congressional Republicans.  —  But this week's The Hill Poll also has bad news for the president.

Michele Bachmann's campaign is sputtering in Iowa  —  Representatives say her campaign is unfolding as planned.  But Bachmann has dropped in the polls and asked supporters for ‘emergency’ funding.  Some top Republicans say she's squandered opportunities.  —  Reporting from Des Moines …

Wamp's son to challenge Fleischmann  —  Weston Wamp knows he's not old enough to be a congressman today.  —  Doesn't matter.  On Election Day 2012, the day that will matter, he'll have been 25 for a little more than seven months.  And for the U.S. House of Representatives, 25 is all the Constitution requires.