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Critics see retrenchment on Obama’s pledge to rebalance the foreign policy apparatus away from the military.

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, appearing on NPR’s Weekend Edition , said that while agrees that the federal government has to cut spending, it also has to raise the debt ceiling to avoid defaulting on its loans. A full transcript of the interview follows

Politico has a double-bylined take-out of the conservative movement’s rebellion against Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican nominated for the

From the Senate majority leader, following President Obama’s meeting this afternoon with congressional leaders of both parties: We had a very productive

Led by chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the Senate Finance Committee has just released its highly anticipated Gang of Six compromise health care reform bill.

Democrats and Republicans can each claim some victories in last month’s fundraising race -- the Democrats’ national and Senate campaign committees outraised

Remember how the Justice Department was supposed to declassify the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on the enhanced interrogation program today? Not going

Leave aside the fact that Blackwater/Paravant employees subcontracted to train Afghan security forces never received authorization from the U.S. military to

In a conference call with reporters immediately after President Obama’s Iraq withdrawal speech, Defense Secretary Bob Gates said that the withdrawal plan has

As I was reporting out today’s piece on the push against State Department legal adviser-nominee Harold Koh, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) was writing this

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), an alumnus of the NBC show Saturday Night Live, criticized the proposed merger of NBC Universal and Comcast during his

This isn’t good. The number of Americans filing initial claims for jobless benefits -- after holding around 450,000 or 460,000 for weeks -- spiked up to 472,000

This morning, the Commerce Department said that the U.S. economy expanded at a 2.4 percent annual rate in the second quarter -- about what economists expected.

Results of a poll commissioned by NPR to analyze 60 House districts that elected Democrats and 10 districts that elected Republicans in 2008 look troubling for

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Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) today is pushing for the Senate to pass a separate provision authorizing the extension of federal unemployment insurance

An Occupy Miami protester (Pic by Ashley Lopez) Occupy Miami garnered public support from local unions today. South Florida Jobs for Justice, together with local labor unions, held a press conference this morning announcing their support for Occupy Miami. Occupy Miami, a local group protesting in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, is currently occupying government center in Miami .

Last month, a federal court judge ordered the Defense Department to release a 47-year-old father of two with a heart condition who the court ruled had been

Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) today is accusing Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the Senate majority leader, of playing politics with the federal extension of

If you heard a loud thud this afternoon, it might have been the sound of countless civil libertarians and human rights lawyers collectively hitting the floor.