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GUANTANAMO BAY -- Testifying remotely, a young man known to us as Interrogator #1 first said he never threatened a 15-year-old Omar Khadr with rape in the

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) may have made quite the bureaucratic gambit today by calling for an acceleration of the schedule to train Afghan security forces ahead

The timing here isn’t coincidental, nor are the players. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), who head the Senate Ethics Committee,

Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs indicated that President Obama might push for another unemployment extension in November, when the extension

So many awesome signs. (Click to enlarge.) This one was interesting. When I asked her if she was on Medicare, she said no, but she was carrying the sign

Shortly before his appearance alongside Rep. Allen West, potential U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner and others at a “South Florida Tea Party Tax Rally” on Saturday , Donald Trump spoke with The Shark Tank , a conservative Florida blog, about his belief in a conspiracy to cover up the fact that President Obama was not born in the United States.

Ohio voters went to the polls yesterday for the first day of early voting, exercising a right in Ohio that the state’s Republicans had fought hard to

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) asked why the Taliban won’t simply reconstitute itself in the parts of Afghanistan that Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s population-security

An alleged admission by a 51-year-old Comstock Park, Mich., man that he attempted to infect hundreds of people with HIV through unprotected sexual activity and

There’s no official count available on the current number of active immigration PACs, but according to TWI research, there are at least eight immigration PACs

Kate’s last post about Eric Holder brings up something that struck me kind of funny, as Bruce Springsteen would say. Notwithstanding Holder’s language about

Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) wrote to CIA Director Leon Panetta yesterday to claim an inaccuracy in the CIA’s list of briefings held for members of Congress on

Today, the Department of Housing and Urban Development released a new monthly scorecard on the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP -- the Obama

This can’t possibly be good: A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani

One side is playing election-year politics; the other is wrestling with urgent budget policies -- and the source of funding is starting to matter less than whether or not it arrives at all.

Two weeks ago I noted that the U.S. military signed its last checks to the former insurgents known as the Sons of Iraq or the Awakening Councils. The program --

The editors of RedState.com are telling Republican National Committee members that if they can’t support Ken Blackwell, they should re-elect Mike Duncan. In

There’s not much to report in the NY-23 absentee ballot count, where Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman continues to gain votes at a much, much slower

ABC News reports that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will remain on the job in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration for at least a year, quoting a

The Senate on Tuesday night easily passed an amendment to credit card reform legislation that would allow concealed weapons in national parks. The vote was 67

Indiana Republican lawmakers stripped funding from Planned Parenthood last month and in doing so made contraception unaffordable for thousands of Medicaid patients.

A three judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling and granted standing to a coalition of human rights groups suing the government over the 2008 FISA amendments. You can read the full ruling here