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Aaaaaaaand so much for the Sadrist ceasefire. According to The New York Times, Iraqi and U.S. (!) forces are now battling the Mahdi Army in Baghdad -- and

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech really begins when explains why the Bush administration wasn’t so popular when it came to a close. Our

As you may have seen by now, the North Korean state news agency has announced that psychotic dictator Kim Jong-il will pardon captured American journalists Euna

Via Laura Rozen, Reuters translates a report from Iranian state TV quoting the regime’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency saying talks

The Obama administration has agreed to install solar panels on the White House. The decision comes after environmentalists, led by 350.org, met with White House

Since 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been sending teams of agents around the country to arrest and deport immigrants they could find with

Stephanie Mencimer answers a question that, as an occasional chronicler of the birther movement, I’ve had for some time. When they claim that the White House is

The coming debate in the Colorado House Judiciary Committee on same-sex civil unions bill SB 172 will center on Republican arguments for and against the legislation. The debate scheduled to take place under the Dome in Denver Thursday will underline the dynamics shaping the larger national debate on gay rights– a debate that now pits Republicans against Republicans because Democrats and Independents have already made up their minds on the matter. As expected, Denver Senator Pat Steadman’s bill passed out of the Democratic-controlled Senate late last week.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll on the 2010 Republican primary for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat finds Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) leading former state House Speaker

That’s the message coming from Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.). According to The Hill, the chairman of the Education and Labor Committee told reporters today

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke Tuesday to educators and school administrators charged with running ‘turnaround schools’ at the

From a White House press release: Vice President Biden will travel to Brussels, Belgium next week to meet with the North Atlantic Council, the principal forum

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team confirmed today that former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) has signed on as an adviser to assist with the new

Via Matthew Yglesias, the post-Mumbai climate of increased Indo-Pakistani tensions is causing the Pakistani military to redeploy forces from the northwest

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging Congress to support legislation that would allow the church and others to opt out of providing contraception in health care insurance exchanges created through the Affordable Care Act. # The Florida Catholic Conference has promoted a U.S

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In the wake of the West Virginia disaster, calls for additional safety measures appear to be prophetic.

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