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After starting the week with a final closing argument speech on Monday, Sen. Barack Obama returns to his starting argument today, with an address again

Female members of the U.S. Senate made clear Friday that they have no intention of “throwing women under the bus” by giving in to Republican demands to approve several policy riders attached to a budget bill designed to keep the federal government operational. “Since they (Republicans) don’t know how to create jobs, they’ve changed the topic to their radical approach to the budget,” said U.S.

I’m still trying to figure out just what happened with Peter Galbraith, the possibly-former top American on the United Nations’ Afghanistan team who reportedly

This New York Times piece about a shift in the NATO-Afghan plan to secure Kandahar from Taliban insurgents to a focus on civilian efforts is kind of

A long-awaited filing Thursday in the al-Haramain case presents a dare to the Obama administration.

In an interview with Pakistan’s Dawn-TV, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out some goals for her trip this week to Pakistan. I talk about

I usually ignore partisan Web videos that aren’t backed by real media buys, but this one out today from the Republican National Committee, a sequel to this one,

Mohammed Jawad has been ordered released after a court ruled his confession coerced, but the Department of Justice is now considering criminal charges based on new evidence.

Another major corporation announced on Wednesday that it’s leaving the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity over concerns about the group’s efforts to

The official readout from yesterday’s White House meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy was predictably uninformative. (When it come to decisions as

COLUMBUS – The Hell’s Angels of the 1960s infamously wore patches on their filthy vests embroidered with the inscription “1%-er,” a rebellious response

Fred Grimm at The Miami Herald has a great column today on how the oil spill has not been a driving factor in the midterm elections in Florida and around the

Neither candidate in the Arkansas Democratic Senate primary will finish with a majority of the vote, while Rep. John Boozman (R) may be able to avoid a runoff

With the pressure mounting before the vote on earmarks in tomorrow’s Republican Conference meeting, a growing number of senators are coming out with statements

The Obama campaign says it has passed another organizing milestone. Writing from Chicago on Sen. Barack Obama’s social network, MyBo, Amy Hamblin reports

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart took on Republicans who are attempting to defund Planned Parenthood, and as an example he used Rep.

Just released, from the Secretary of State: Afghanistan has been through a rough and contentious election. The bravery, patience, and resilience of the

Building on this post, Simon Shercliff is the senior defense adviser to the British Embassy in Washington, and he blogs today about recent conversations he’s

After two days of testimony, a pair of anti-abortion rights bills passed key committees in the Minnesota House this week, one to ban abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and another to ban taxpayer funding for abortions. Religious leaders came down on both sides of the issue, while legal and medical experts said the bills were poor policy. In the Senate, yet another bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks was introduced on Thursday bringing the total bills in the legislature to curtail abortion rights to nine so far this session.

The Consumer Advisory Council meets this Thursday in Washington -- and the goings-on are open to the public. If you register online by today, you can

After having to temporarily close its doors to thousands of patients, Planned Parenthood of Indiana can now reopen to Medicaid beneficiaries. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood this past week over Indiana’s new law aimed at defunding the chain of women’s clinics

The Minnesota Family Council, the main voice behind a ballot initiative that if approved by the voters in 2012 would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the state constitution, said Friday that Republicans who oppose the amendment are liberals. On Thursday, a slate of Republican lawmakers and activists came out against the amendment at a press conference. Reps. John Kriesel (R-Cottage Grove) and Rep.