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The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday easily passed a bill that would require the Obama administration to make a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by Nov. 1

Foreclosures were supposed to pause between Thanksgiving and the new year, but for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, like Julio Angulo of suburban Virginia, they still face losing their homes this month.

Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO who’s now running as a Republican for governor of California, donated $4,000 to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in her 2004

The tent cities in Sacramento, Calif., which we described recently, and the increasing number of shanty towns detailed in The New York Times today, are only

Just emailed to reporters: outgoing Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell’s praise for incoming DNI Denny Blair. I am very pleased to learn that

Attorney General Eric Holder this afternoon named Mary Patrice Brown as the new head of the Office of Professional Responsibility, the Justice Department’s

If it’s September in an election year, it’s a Democratic media train wreck. No matter how the Democrats are doing, it seems, their top strategists and party

Former Michigan state Rep. Jack Hoogendyk is likely to announce next week that he will challenge Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) in the GOP primary in

For politicians in the U.S. and abroad, it once seemed like a good idea to hitch their political fates to George W. Bush’s wagon.

For eight years, the United States has observed a policy that few Americans outside the reproductive rights community probably knew about: International groups

The news that Gov. David Paterson (D-N.Y.) won’t seek a full term of his own in the wake of a new scandal reminds me of this TV ad that Paterson and

Jon Michael Turner’s story of serving as a Marine in Iraq was documented here by a team of video journalists on behalf of The Washington Independent. Turner

Losing the people of Afghanistan will cost the United States the war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said before a Senate panel Tuesday.

Public Policy Polling’s ongoing survey of American attitudes about presidential conspiracy theories continues with a fascinating look at the birther and

Great piece from CQ’s Alex Knott. Apparently defense contractors spent $340,000 last year throwing events to honor Defense Secretary Bob Gates: Among them were

Credit card companies back to screwing over its customers while Congress spins its wheels on consumer protection.

Here’s a valuable use of time: A group called the Pray at the Pump Movement will congregate at a Shell gas station in DC this afternoon to -- you guessed it --

The unemployment numbers spell trouble for Dems in the midterms. DeMint dismisses Cornyn’s big tent strategy. And in response to assurances on Honduras,