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Tom Friedman may want to think harder about this: Last week, five men from northern Virginia were arrested in Pakistan, where they went, they told Pakistani

This is a bit flashbacky, but in June 2002, John Yoo, then the deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, considered the question of what

Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced last week a record number of arrests of gang-affiliated illegal immigrants in Utah, netting 158 people alleged to

After giving Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre his toughest race in years, Ilario Pantano announced today he is seeking a re-match in 2012 for North Carolina’s

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 11, 2009. Rep. Joe Wilson, the

Congressional Democratic leaders want to give GM, Ford and Chrysler billions of dollars to save them from bankruptcy. But the White House and the GOP are skeptical about throwing more money at an industry that has resisted calls to change. Are car manufacturers too big to fail?

This morning, The Wall Street Journal breaks the unfortunate if unsurprising news that big Wall Street banks routinely lower their debt levels shortly before

Research finds lawful residents and undocumented immigrants held in inhumane conditions.

Senate supporters of the Children’s Health Insurance Program won two years of additional funding for the popular federal-state program under the upper chamber’s

The first week of May was as eventful for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) as any time since the 2008 election.

After an 11th hour deal to patch together competing versions of a school voucher program failed to materialize Wednesday in the Pennsylvania Legislature,

A federal judge on Monday struck down the patent, held jointly by the University of Utah and Myriad Genetics, over BCRA1 and BCRA2, two human genes in which

At this point, following investigators’ lead, it’s probably fair to conclude that the Fort Hood shooting suspect was motivated by religious extremism: U.S.

Criticism hasn’t eased for Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the wake of his statement during a recent debate that the border can’t be secured and defense of his state’s tuition policy for some undocumented immigrants — and a two-day tour in Iowa this week doesn’t look like it will hold solace

After debating Pat Buchanan on Morning Joe earlier in the day about the efficacy of torturing terror suspects, TWI’s Spencer Ackerman returned to MSNBC last

Republicans put some effort into painting presidential candidate Barack Obama as an insufficient friend of American soldiers, with Exhibit A being his decision

The repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell, the U.S. military’s policy of banning openly gay servicemembers, was signed into law late last year. Nevertheless, Rep.

The nine-term Republican from South Florida, who had his first electoral scare in years back during the 2008 election, is retiring. Josh Kraushaar has a good

Wow. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as