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Yesterday I highlighted the departure of Gen. William Wallace from the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine command as an example of the end of the Rumsfeld era --

Could America be colorblind in 2028? Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-Wis.) okay with CIA assassinations, not okay with being kept in the dark. With a little more

Republicans on the Wake County School Board hired retired Army Brigadier Gen. Anthony Tata to be the district’s superintendent, in part for his military

From Dexter Filkins’ New York Times Magazine profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, which you really ought to read in its entirety: I asked General Flynn to

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) says BP’s CEO will be spliced and diced during a House committee hearing today. A GOP candidate vying to challenge Rep. Brad

A group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate have written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that the State Department extend their review of the Keystone XL pipeline project. Andrew Restuccia, our former AINN colleague, reports at The Hill : The lawmakers, in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, raised concerns about TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, pointing to recent leaks at the company’s existing Keystone pipeline and a recent oil spill at an Exxon Mobil Corp

The Detroit Free Press reports that hospitals in Michigan are taking on a project that helps reduce the number of medically unnecessary C-sections in the state. The project “considered a national model is helping women avoid medically unnecessary C-sections and contributing to healthier outcomes for their babies, project organizers report,” according to the Free Press .

Immigrants rights groups have shifted their immigration organizing efforts to smaller bills, such as the DREAM Act for undocumented students, as comprehensive

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) A federal report released Thursday finds that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., an advocate for controversial immigration enforcement and detention measures, has committed a “wide range of civil rights violations.” The Associated Press reports : The federal government issued a scathing report Thursday that outlines how Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office has committed a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos, including a pattern of racial profiling and discrimination and carrying out heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged citizen complaints. The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its release, is a result of the U.S.

Fresh off the latest revelation that the CIA contracted Blackwater for an assassination effort, here’s Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater’s most dogged pursuer,

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- I don’t blog everything that Sarah Palin writes on Facebook, but her response to Vice President Joe Biden’s jab at her energy policy -- made

New HUD program allows first-time homebuyers to borrow against an $8,000 tax credit for downpayments, raising questions about what was learned from the housing crisis.

BOSTON -- Snow is falling in the Bay State, from western Massachusetts to heavily Democratic downtown Boston. In a campaign full of lucky breaks for Republican

The FDIC’s attempt at mass restructurings of mortgages comes with risks -- and insiders are divided on the wisdom of the plan.

With abortion now topic-of-the-moment amid the health reform debate, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) weighed in last night with a prediction certain to please

With Thursday’s presidential election in Afghanistan proving difficult to forecast, some analysts in and outside the Obama administration are considering U.S. options if the next government is viewed as illegitimate.

At the bottom of Ann Scott Tyson’s Washington Post piece about Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s assessment of the Afghanistan war is a bit of contradiction-heightening

When I asked earlier today where the outrage was from Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) over the fact that his worst nightmare -- the imprisonment of terrorists in

WorldNetDaily has put out a news release on its, uh, scoop about the forged Kenyan birth certificate that Orly Taitz has filed in court as proof of the

According to a study of 2010 U.S. Census data by UCLA’s Williams Institute , among large U.S. cities, Minneapolis has the fourth highest rate of same-sex couples living within its borders

Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign saw a major shakeup on Monday as her campaign manager and deputy campaign manager quit. Ed Rollins, who said he was leaving the campaign for health reasons, and David Polyansky both wished the campaign well in several media appearances Monday evening. The shakeup comes at an unfortunate time for Bachmann, whose campaign has been pushed to the middle of the Republican pack by Texas Gov.

Not much news yet, but militants detonated a bomb at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar. At least five people are dead and another 25 are injured. Dawn

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