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My own personal view is we ought to increase the aid to Pakistan, Holbrooke said, including to the Pakistani military.

Less than 48 hours after a Republican National Committee chairman candidates’ debate, during which contenders sang the praises of high tech and Twitter, the RNC

As the Wikileaks endless U.S. diplomatic document dump continues, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is battling back calls to resign for a UN espionage scheme , she’s leading the government’s defacto public relations campaign against Wikileaks and she’s battening down the hatches at the State Department . She is, in effect, in a war against the future the internet is promising to deliver as Wikileaks incrementally posts all of the 250,000 State Department cables it is alleged to possess.

Promoters of Canadian tar sands oil have launched a media campaign around the idea that by replacing Saudi oil with Canadian crude the U.S. can reduce payments to a government that oppresses women.

Florida had to settle the date for the state’s 2012 presidential primary by Oct.

As governor of Montana, Schweitzer doesn’t represent one of the most highly populated, high-profile electoral states in the country. But this

Just to be clear, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wants the world to know that a health reform proposal lacking a public option won’t become law because

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a research organization that favors restricting immigration, released a report Wednesday analyzing a set of

Both Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) and the American Civil Liberties Union agree: There needs to be an investigation into Spc.

PART TWO in a Series, PART ONE: Mortgage Crisis Triggers Walk Aways Since the mortgage crisis began, cities have been dealing with the problem of

As a White House press briefing on the New START nuclear-reductions treaty with Russia gets underway, here’s a factsheet the White House sent out about what

Just released by the Department of Justice. He’s calling it a Preliminary Review into the interrogation of certain detainees. Notice that Holder did not

This afternoon, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, released the text of a letter he sent to mortgage servicers in Nevada, asking them to stop

Last week, radical anti-abortion right’s group Operation Rescue told Life News that the Texas Medical Board has continued to investigate the group’s claims that women’s health clinics providing abortions in Texas were violating the law .

House lawmakers are on the floor as we speak debating a bill to provide $2 billion more to what proved to be a tremendously popular cash for clunkers program.

ANCHORAGE -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is seen as a reformer in a state rife with political scandal, and the vice presidential candidate may have her own set of problems.

Some unsurprising comments this morning from Rand Paul, a Republican candidate to replace retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R) in Kentucky. From the halls of

Moving ahead with something that political wags had expected for months, the Club for Growth is backing Marco Rubio against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in the

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- As Sen. John McCain’s motorcade arrived for a rally at Cape Fear Community College, this sign, featuring a photo of Osama bin Laden in