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This should bolster the hopes of state lawmakers who want to pass Arizona-style immigration legislation: The Virgina Attorney General ruled police can check

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday night approved an amendment providing tens of millions of dollars to fund abstinence education programs for

An executive from BP will be asked to testify at a July 29 hearing on the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted of organizing the 1988 bombing of

When the Supreme Court tomorrow considers the government’s motion to dismiss the habeas corpus petition of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, it will find itself in

Today, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) -- the first Muslim elected to Congress -- and national security experts discussed the causes of, and solutions to,

When President George W. Bush wrote on February 7, 2002 that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions did not apply to al Qaeda or Taliban detainees, he took the first step down a slippery slope of legal interpretation that he and members of his administration may come to regret.

There are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, many of whom have children in public schools and pay property and sales taxes. They can’t

Some good news from the Department of Labor: initial jobless claims dropped last week, falling from an adjusted 478,000 to 451,000. Still, the number is high,

In a rare victory for torture victims, a federal judge yesterday ruled that detainees who claim they were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

Colleges and alumni associations throughout Texas are making money from banks and credit card companies by selling them the names, addresses, phone numbers and

Karen DeYoung’s Washington Post story today isn’t actually about the 2004 intelligence-community reforms failing to stop the would-be Northwest Airlines Flight

Jim Geraghty takes issue with the president’s Washington Post op-ed, specifically the part criticizing those who think tax cuts alone will solve our

A bill that would have pulled state funding from local governments refusing to participate in the controversial Secure Communities program died in the Senate Monday.

Mother Jones has an interesting article in its latest issue about the Juan Doe problem: What do U.S. officials do with the dead bodies of migrants they find

Tomorrow Adm. Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, is going to give the Senate Armed Services Committee a briefing on the threats facing the

Physics professor David C.

In the House, the appropriations committee is marking up spending bills, which means that rhetoric about earmarks is about to ramp up. Yesterday, the House

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial jobless claims climbed to the highest level in five months, up 2,000 to 484,000, with last

Karl Rove, who is launching his new book today, by way of donations has already taken sides in several 2010 Senate races. Rove’s 2009 contributions

While the new-look Texas Legislature has grabbed the spotlight with an unprecedented attack on state spending, taking place behind the scenes and on smaller

Chances are President Obama will announce a readjusted Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s very likely that strategy