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The Washington Post, this a.m.: President Obama, convening his fifth war council meeting in as many weeks, pressed his senior national security advisers

Though Republicans control the U.S. House and Democrats’ hold on the Senate took a hit in the 2010 election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is trying once more to

Sunday’s inaugural same-sex marriages in New York were met by thousands of protesters blasting the New York Legislature’s passage of the Marriage Equality

A measure that would override city and county ordinances that help workers cheated out of wages by their employers cleared another hurdle in the state legislature this week. # The Senate Community Affairs committee on Monday approved a bill sponsored by Sen

Sen. Ted Stevens, who was found guilty Monday on seven felony charges related to his failure to disclose gifts from an oil services firm, told the Fairbanks

As Colorado’s state legislature is set to take up the issue of legalizing civil unions , Barbara Bush, daughter of former president George W.

For fourteen years, FAIR has sponsored a mass lobbying campaign they call Hold Their Feet to the Fire. This year’s event, days after the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington, was the biggest yet.

We are now eight months into the Obama administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development still doesn’t have an administrator. The vetting process

Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released a survey of 44 economic forecasters. The forecasters -- all economists in the private sector -- see a

Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s GOP primary victory might be old news, but her campaign’s financial improprieties dredged up during the primary

Via Derrick Crowe at The Seminal*, a new CNN poll has found that support for the Afghanistan war has dropped yet again, and now it’s at 39 percent, with 58

The Supreme Court will hear a case this session that could clarify whether states have the right to crack down on illegal immigration. The case, to be heard

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asks how the department will have the culture, the morale and the resources necessary to succeed. Back to Adm. Mullen’s

Just announced from the office of Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the upper chamber will vote this afternoon to bring to the floor a $245 billion

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) -- last seen slandering Justice Department lawyers and then distancing himself from Liz Cheney’s similar slanders -- goes way

American intelligence has a serious problem. But it is not that the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine services, Jose

Following up on our earlier post about senators’ requests for more funding for carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) technology in the Senate bill, we were wondering

Photographs show undocumented workers, who were paid in cash and bused in from Texas, covered in oil and mud while receiving food and water.

Immigration judges are denying fewer requests for asylum than at any other time in the past 25 years, according to a report out today from Syracuse’s