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GUANTANAMO BAY -- There were doubts, after yesterday’s late-breaking release of the Manual for military commissions, whether this morning’s pre-trial hearing to

As Congress delves into its much anticipated health care reform debate, the discussion thus far has been framed as a black vs. white clash between those (mostly

Newspaper presidential-endorsement season is well underway. The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune announced

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), the disgraced resigning congressman, is going down swinging and taking the news cycle with him. His weekly radio show -- and, likely,

When Merrill Lynch snuck in $4 billion in executive bonuses just before its sale to Bank of America, nearly everyone I spoke with said that while the move was

America’s mayor talks to the Dallas Morning News about whether he’ll run for president in 2012. I’m keeping my options open is how I put it – meaning

Washington is buzzing with the various testimonies and commissions ongoing today. Watch Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other speakers at the National Commission

The Huffington Post’s Shahien Nasiripour, a great financial reporter, has a good piece on a top executive at J.P. Morgan Chase trashing Sen. Carl Levin

Before Eric Massa appeared on Glenn Beck’s show, there was a short war of words between the Fox News host and blogger/columnist Michelle Malkin. Beck likened

A Massachusetts county clerk says a forensic examination of documents filed by Troy-based Orlans Associates, one of the largest foreclosure firms in Michigan, shows that the company has engaged in illegal robo-signing.

This morning’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contained much bad news.

Several independent experts believe the facility is most likely being constructed to support a nuclear weapons program, though the White House’s explanation should be assessed carefully.

President Obama is expected at 10 a.m. today to announce his nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Kagan, the former dean of

(Via Politico’s Ben Smith) Carly Fiorina, a senior McCain campaign adviser and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, told a St. Louis radio station earlier today

ANCHORAGE -- We’re still going through documents from the time Sarah Palin served as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla, that I picked up from the clerk’s office on

The Obama administration doesn’t want to fight with Afghan President Hamid Karzai anymore. Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the special representative to Afghanistan and

So the ACLU doesn’t really like FBI Director Robert S. Mueller’s proposed new guidelines for investigations, fearing that the relaxed rules could open the door

Tomorrow afternoon, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will meet to examine the country’s mine safety policies -- the first such

The Energy Information Administration last week released its monthly report on the short-term energy outlook for the U.S., in which it found that the bad

Via Salon, the Gold’s Gym controversy -- sparked by a massive donation from the Robert Rowling, the owner of Gold’s parent company, TRT Holdings, to