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So we don’t know exactly what significant actions CIA Director Leon Panetta has acknowledged to the House intelligence committee were not properly briefed to

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says at the approval of President Obama, armed Predator drones will be used in Libya. Gates and Marine Gen. James

The Leahy-Feinstein substitute bill I discussed in my piece this morning about the USA PATRIOT Act was just approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 13-8,

Updated: 6:15 p.m. EST with a clarified quote*. In the seemingly endless war over abortion rights in America, battles are waged in legislatures, in courts and,

Here are some stark -- if not entirely surprising -- numbers from the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the 2010 Arizona gubernatorial race. Out of four

In his latest column, action star-turned-conservative pundit Chuck Norris has a revolutionary suggestion to battle the enemies within. As 9/12 concluded,

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is focused on Iowa in her campaign for the GOP nomination, her campaign spokeswoman told NBC, a strategy that may have led to all of the campaign’s New Hampshire staff quitting this weekend

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California, has a new Spanish-language ad touting her opposition to the Arizona law, SB 1070, and

The Senate Finance Committee this morning is taking up a much-anticipated amendment, offered by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), to create a public insurance

At Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in Florida, a gay soldier serving in Iraq was booed by the audience because he asked a question about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. None of the candidates on stage came to his defense. After the debate, many moderate Republicans spoke out against the audience’s behavior including Minnesota Republican Rep.

The nicotine and other chemicals found in tobacco products might be addictive, and they might contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States

Guess who wrote this and when: “We are sitting on a time bomb,” the mortgage analyst said — a huge increase in unconventional home loans like balloon

That’s according to a just-released statement from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: The White House has indicated

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is asked by Fox News whether his RNC would support primary challengers to the moderate Republican

Floyd Norris of The New York Times picks up on President George W. Bush’s myopic views of the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,

The Obama administration, under pressure to turn over key memos written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, has asked the federal judge in New

Bowling Green, Ohio We’ve just wrapped up the second Palin campaign event of the day, a Victory in Ohio rally whose highlight -- aside from the rather

A controversial bill that would allow for the concealed carry of guns at Texas public colleges and universities may be dead, says the bill’s author. After a

A statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (aka E-FORCSE) will finally go live on Thursday. For supporters of the program, its implementation has been a long time coming, but is welcome in a state where prescription drug abuse has reached near-epidemic proportions . # Starting Thurs., Sept

The Associated Press reports: The United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama’s

Josh Kraushaar, Mike Allen, and Jim Vandehei get the rumor mill churning with their report that Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), considered a dark horse 2012 candidate