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This just released from the NATO command in Afghanistan: Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helicopters were involved in what was believed to

The news that Mohammed Jawad plans to sue the U.S. government for his unlawful detention and torture raises the question of whether he can get beyond the

It may not feel that way, but yes, there are other things happening today outside of the realm of Supreme Court nominations. For instance, a coalition

“If we wander away from science,” Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) said during an Energy and Commerce health subcommittee hearing to examine the guidelines, “then it will be a march to folly.”

Who said cronyism was dead? Delaware’s governor today tapped a long-time adviser to Joe Biden to fill the Senate seat being vacated by the vice

The CIA said techniques like sleep deprivation worked better when a detainee’s resistance was weakened from hunger.

Have you ever lived somewhere with really lousy cell phone service? If so, you’ve probably wondered if there was anything you could do about it. As it turns

This week Mother Jones released a story linking anti-abortion rights group Americans United for Life with the three similarly-worded justifiable homicide

For the anti-abortion rights groups protesting in front of Dr. LeRoy Carhart’s clinic in Germantown, Md., this week, the objective is twofold: 1) End Carhart’s

It looks like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) is taking a break from embarrassing himself to do something seemingly valuable. At noon, he and Sen. Carl Levin

While all the attention in Colorado seems to go to Occupy Denver, it is not the only occupation in the state. People have been occupying Acacia Park in Colorado Springs for more than two weeks now, so far without an arrest. “They’ve issued warnings about tents, and we have had private property offered to us, but so far we’ve decided to stay here,” one woman told The Colorado Independent.

Despite faulty science and misleading characterizations of sex, a sex education program delivered by an Austin crisis pregnancy center remains in use in 13

Since 1988, the U.S. has banned federal funding for needle exchange programs. But with a president who pledges to lift the ban, why is the United States opposing UN efforts to promote them?

I had some technical problems during my livebloggery this morning and our content-management system erased my capture of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham

A new study points to income inequality (the gap between those making most of the income and those making the least) as one of the main culprits for a country’s lagging economy. The United States’ income inequality is currently very high — and yet, some states are faring worse than others. Florida ranks “as the fifth-worst state in the nation on a measure of income inequality,” the Gini Index, according to the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy . Mother Jones reports that “equality” in income remains one of the most important “economic drivers” in an economy: “Countries where income was more equally distributed tended to have longer growth spells,” says economist Andrew Berg, whose study appears in the current issue of Finance & Development , the quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund.

A memo written this week by U.S.

Last month, when Detroit’s Big Three automakers stormed Capitol Hill in search of $25 billion in emergency loans, a number of lawmakers wondered aloud where

The Campaign to Defeat Obama , a political action committee with ties to the Republican Party and the Tea Party Express, has launched a campaign linking Democratic Party lawmakers and President Obama to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is depicted by the organization as “violent mobs.” “Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheerleaders,” writes the campaign’s chief and right-wing political consultant Joe Wierzbicki in a release announcing a new campaign ad. ”The new poll finds that support for the violent Occupy Wall Street mobs has fallen further, and since Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheerleaders, it spells trouble for him as well.” The mainstream media hasn’t spent much time highlighting this vulnerability for Obama, but that is where you come in.

Change.org links to a good summary of the 874-page comprehensive immigration reform bill Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced

One of the biggest accusations promulgated to support why Planned Parenthood is “evil” and should be stripped of all federal funding is that the health care

Republican candidates for president are not spending much of their campaign war chests in Iowa, an analysis from The Huffington Post shows. Reporter Sam Stein analyzed federal election data to see how much GOP presidential hopefuls spent on staff, office space, campaign stops and other items in the Hawkeye State.

In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today