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After the provision won a major vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this evening, the House voted tonight to include an amendment overturning

Four Democratic senators are calling on BP to suspend all drilling operations in Libya so the State Department can conduct an investigation into allegations

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich -- who bounded onto the CPAC stage to the strains of Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger -- predicted that the GOP will

The magnitude of the hypocrisy of the McCain campaign’s attacks last week against Sen. Barack Obama for his campaign’s ties to Fannie Mae is only now coming to

I’ve been writing a lot about this lately, but there are just so many interesting facets to the trials and tribulations of Sen. John McCain as he tries to court

He should, anyway. The conspiracy-minded attorney responds to the magazine’s measured denunciation of the birther movement with a 3,700-word rant about how

Data from Obama’s press communications reveal a plethora of attacks on his Republican opponents. The campaign tried many tacks to shift the tide.

The White House quickly shot down Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s proposal to tax mileage, but the debate over the idea continues.

This morning as I tried to draw up plays for the anemic Bengals offense -- the worst since Coach Marvin Lewis offered a glimmer of hope when he took over six

The budget recently approved by Congress to keep the federal government running through the 2011 fiscal year includes a series of cuts to major federal immigration agencies that will impact immigrants and immigration programs over the next year. # According to the American Immigration Council : # The bar on spending for immigrant integration programs, present in the initial budget passed by the House (H.R. 1), was not present in the final 2011 budget (H.R

Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) hasn’t even been sworn in as a U.S. senator, but he’s already making waves. First, his colleague-to-be announced that he’d be voting for

This ad from Tea Party Express is the hardest punch yet from a conservative coalition trying to poison the well for Scott Ashjian, the businessman running as

The defense secretary did not indicate a higher likelihood of war, which would threaten Obama’s consensus-building approach.

In the interest of obsessive Kremlinology, something else worth noting from the Washington Post’s timeline of Obama’s decision to declassify last week’s torture

Sean Duffy, the leading Republican candidate challenging Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), will report a fundraising total of $140,000, with $120,000 cash on hand, for

It’s gotten much less attention than his unilateral revision of Afghanistan’s electoral law, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scaling back a milestone for

Ernest Luning -- of TWI’s sister site, The Colorado Independent -- is on the scene in Denver, where President Obama is set to sign the much-anticipated stimulus

The 2012 hopes of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty have received a major boost with the acquisition of Nick Ayers , 28, a well-respected conservative who formerly led the Republican Governors Association