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Flint could become the first city to get taken over by the state since Gov.

You knew it was coming. Marcy Wheeler and Greg Sargent report that Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, will open

There’s a dispute inside the Obama administration about who should have the authority to appoint and direct the chief intelligence officer at oversees outposts.

When he was confronted by Mike Stark, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) gave perhaps the clearest statement of any Republican member of Congress on the persistent

My colleague Rachel Hartman reminds me that the Young Eagles’ plans for 2010 were spelled out in the infamous RNC fundraising memo obtained this month (yes, two

At the Center for a New American Security’s annual conference yesterday, the respected former ambassador to Iraq and Pakistan, Ryan Crocker, made a point of

After introducing his family -- all of whom seem to be there, I guess this is a big deal or something -- Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder began his opening

I’m at the Brookings Institution, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is presenting the Obama administration’s agenda for next week’s United

Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security, a critic of the CIA’s Predator drone program in the Pakistani tribal areas, writes: I worry that the CIA

My friend Siobhan Gorman at the Wall Street Journal -- who, for my money, is the best intelligence reporter in the business -- breaks a big story this morning:

Feminist outrage is making headlines today as women’s groups react to President Obama’s last-minute move to to eliminate a portion of the stimulus package that

This story that ran Sunday in The Los Angeles Times, Obama Preserves Rendition as Counter-Terrorism Tool, has caused quite a stir. Swirling ’round the

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign is still trying to raise money to pay off old debts. James Carville, the Democratic

<p>Remember Donald Rumsfeld? He seems like a bad dream. And yet here he is, popping up in Washington to talk about how the U.S. needs a Ministry of

LONGMONT– The right and left protesters and counter-protesters gathered here off a sprawling suburban four-lane road and around a wall-less field house at the Boulder County Fairgrounds agreed on at least two things: that the group hosting the gathering, Americans for Prosperity , is suffering an image problem and that government subsidies to oil and gas companies have got to end.

Reports that the Obama administration will appoint the assistant secretary of state for European affairs under the Bush administration, Daniel Fried, as a

With a good number of reservations, the American Medical Association, the country’s largest doctors lobby, today put its significant weight behind the health

From @PersianKiwi just now, a terrifying escalation in the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress the protests: Baseej shooting in Azadi sq - army standing by

Secretary of State Ruth Johnson took home a load of campaign cash last week from a fundraiser held by Linda Orlans, owner of Orlans Associates Law Firm, which has been implicated in robo-signing fraud in Michigan and Massachusetts.