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Documents reveal the CIA was allowed to deny detainees sleep upward of 80 to 180 hours at a time.

Here’s the full text of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s announcement of President Obama’s selection for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize: The Norwegian Nobel

The reaction from Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to the missile defense announcement is too detached from reality to be taken seriously: “This deeply

A new Gallup poll finds, on average, Americans believe 51 cents out of every dollar the federal government spends is wasted, a new high since the question was

Wes Pruden of The Washington Times, a regular weekly contestant for the dual prizes of most gleefully offensive conservative column and most likely to be

Via Rachel Weiner, Joe McGinniss discovers that Sarah Palin is, instead of riding her decked-out book tour bus, cosseted in the luxury of a Gulfstream II

CPAC attendees are filling out ballots that ask their takes on the issues (such as establishing direct U.S. dialogue with countries like Iran and groups like

Democrats actually have a chance of winning a few races in Texas this year, but to do so, they have to be able to vote. In Harris County, a key county where

The Colorado Independent’s Ernest Luning passes along this rather remarkable quote from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), speaking earlier today at an event in

Following deadly mine disasters in the last decade, MSHA’s internal investigators concluded that although the agency made significant mistakes, it was not to blame for the accidents.

The U.S. House Tuesday evening voted 318-97 not to raise the country’s debt limit, setting up a showdown with the White House

When a lawyer who finds a legal avenue for shoving someone into a confinement box with an insect that person might believe is poisonous thinks you’ve crossed

First appeared September 8, 2008 WASILLA, Alaska -- In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church,

Mark Hosenball gets a hold of a report from a northern California-based fusion center of federal, state and local homeland security and law enforcement

You wouldn’t know from the U-N-I-T-Y themes of this year’s AIPAC conference, but a big partisan gap is opening on how Americans view the Israeli-Palestinian

The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood reports some strong statements from Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) in support of a government-run health insurance plan to