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There’s so much to say about President Obama’s historic speech in Cairo today. But for now, I want to focus on the aspects of it that conservatives insisted

Marc Morano, the communications guru for Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and his fellow Republicans on the Senate Environment Committee, passes along a piece of

Any sanctions would seek to curb Iran’s nuclear program.

Jeb Bush isn’t terribly happy with President Obama’s willingness to blame his brother George for his administration’s challenges: For months now, Jeb Bush has

Another thing that Noah Shachtman got into during his interview Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the military’s newest

As the GOP loses the Senate seat held by Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who announced today that he’s switching allegiances to the Democrats, former Republican Sen.

Washington, D.C.--Occupy DC is moving to Freedom Plaza by the Washington D.C. City Hall today, with turnout projections at 1,000 participants. The event is

President Obama will announce today that the United States will lift its long-standing ban on travel by Cuban-Americans to their homeland, according to The

Not long ago, a Marine colonel named Dale Alford who served in Afghanistan had some blunt criteria for how we’d know if U.S. troops were truly partnered with

Several House Democrats will introduce legislation next week to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that bars the federal government from

This email came to reporters’ inboxes from the office of the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, objecting to this Politico story about Blair’s

The Obama administration is reportedly looking more closely at recess appointments for some nominees who’ve been mowed down by filibusters, with Sen. Richard

I’m going to head over to the Dirksen Senate office building pretty soon to cover the Soufan/Zelikow hearings. But before I go: it looks like Khost

Maybe it’s just me, but if I happened to find myself as, say, the head of a government-sponsored agency that buys mortgages from lenders and packages them into

Noah Shachtman attends a Columbia University address by Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that featured the admiral tamping down

GUANTANAMO BAY -- We’ve just been informed that the recess ordered by Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge, to ensure Omar Khadr will be advised of his

A dangerous bacterial infection that can cause serious disease and death in dogs, and can spread to humans, has been identified in an outbreak in Detroit. MLive.com reports that the disease Leptospirosis has been identified in 20 dogs in Detroit.

U.S. Senate Republicans recently introduced a bill that would require a doctor to notify a minor’s parents, and wait four days, before providing an abortion .