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RELATED: Video from Torture Hearing If last week’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on torture represented a watershed of disclosure, today’s

A rare joint talk Thursday exposed some differences their countries have with the Obama administration’s new strategy to confront extremism in South Asia, as well as with each other.

Since its inception, the health insurance industry has fought doctors over payments, dropped patients when they’ve gotten sick and denied coverage for those

Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator of the Gulf oil spill compensation fund, questioned today whether his model used for massive compensation

The death of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) means that Congress has lost a longtime fixture and the military community has lost a prominent voice in the House, but

A new ad hits Lou Dobbs for flirting with birtherism. Corporate PACs have an outsize influence among small-state senators. Want to pass health care

The Charleston Daily Mail had a long sit-down interview with Don Blankenship, the head of Virginia-based Massey Energy, which owns the Upper Big Branch Mine

The conservative reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize address is not universally positive, but it’s close. Kathleen Parker, whose conservative but

Anyone who thinks that the only thing better than one Democratic governor embroiled in a pay-to-play scandal is two Democratic governors embroiled in

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, the group behind a federal lawsuit against Perry for his involvement in a controversial Aug. 6 prayer rally, is revving up

In the confusion that followed Friday’s attacks in Oslo, Norway, some observers in America — including one Florida congressman — were quick to point to preliminary reports, which turned out to be inaccurate, that the perpetrator was an Islamic terrorist.

Wednesday’s protests at the Capitol were many times larger than those on Tuesday, with teachers, laborers, nurses, firefighters, police officers and senior citizens filling up the entire front lawn to hear calls to action from political leaders. Here are some images from the rally.

With a cloture vote to open formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill scheduled for 5 p.m. this evening, Senate Democrats

The Senate passed an extension of unemployment benefits through November last night; now the House has just done the same. Next stop: President Obama’s

NASHVILLE -- The woman dubbed by the Orange County Register as queen of the birthers arrived at the National Tea Party Convention today and did what she

Despite a courts-driven redistricting plan that could drastically reshape Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District, candidates are lining up to challenge freshman Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack. Swept into Congress in the 2010 Republican tidal wave, Cravaack is widely viewed as vulnerable, and a slate of accomplished candidates from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party attests to that perceived weakness.

Matt touched on this, but, seriously. There was a lot of talk from Obama about how his national-security team understands the integrated challenges of 21st

Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, was asked