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In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, U.S. Rep

So tomorrow Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, will visit the White House, under the shadow of last week’s Israeli raid of a flotilla

The U.S. government has agreed to pay a total of $1.26 million dollars to five men who claim they were illegally detained and mistreated after the Sept. 11,

Once it became clear that failed insurance giant AIG got away with far more than it deserved in negotiations for its government bailout, led by Treasury

Recently, South Carolina Republicans have attracted a fair amount of positive national attention (a welcome change from last summer). Not only have they tapped

Eric Kleefeld and Matthew Yglesias point out something that hasn’t gotten too much attention. There were two-anti tax measures on the ballot yesterday in Maine

Turns out the final language included in the agreed-upon stimulus bill does indeed include protections for employees of government contractors -- like KBR,

One advantage President Obama’s foes have in mounting their domestic agenda of obstruct and obscure is the luxury of the content-free talking points. For

The McCain campaign has kicked into overdrive for its final full day of campaigning before Election Day. While Sen. John McCain maintained a leisurely

It’s not been the greatest year for resupplying the Afghanistan war. The Kyrgyzstan government has been iffy about allowing the U.S. continued access to the

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wants to know why the U.S

Human rights experts say there is a serious risk that some of the Guantanamo detainees cleared for release could face persecution or torture.

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Over the weekend, yet another hapless prisoner stuck at Guantanamo Bay for the last six years was determined to have been wrongly detained, this time by a

At a town hall meeting in Minnesota Tuesday, Rep. Collin Peterson (D), the moderate chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, reportedly urged President

If Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants a glimpse into the life of a newly declared Independent candidate, he need look no further than Massachusetts’ Tim

Auditing the Pentagon often turns up billions in weapons waste and scandalously overpaid private contractors. But the latest Pentagon inspector general report

What Republican Congressman Cory Gardner hopes to do for offshore oil and gas drilling in Alaska , his fellow Colorado GOP House member Mike Coffman is looking to do for onshore drilling on federal lands across the country — strip away perceived environmental regulatory hurdles.

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