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President-elect Barack Obama today announced the creation of a new position to work in conjunction with the Office of Management and Budget to increase the

According to McClatchy, six years after the Keating Five scandal, Sen. John McCain pressured U.S. Forest Service employees to approve a potentially lucrative

Bill Kristol speaks to American Jewry: As we recited this on Saturday, I couldn’t help but reflect that a distressingly small number of my fellow Jews seem

The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterday the release of five attack

The FDA has intensified its checks on produce coming into the United States since the Salmonella stpaul outbreak began, and has put 17 firms on notice that they

Another day, another Dianne Feinstein statement that doesn’t express enthusiasm for Panetta: I have been contacted by both President-elect Obama and Vice

The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility released its report on professional misconduct over torture authorized by ex-Justice officials

OK, it’s officially NATO-in-Afghanistan Day at The Streak. Matthew Yglesias notes the hawkishness of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary general, and

The House last night easily passed a compromise automaker bailout negotiated for days between congressional Democrats and the White House. The Democrats -- who

After months of proposals, arguments, hearings and public comments, federal regulators today approved new rules to make credit cards more consumer friendly. The

After three terms representing North Dakota in the upper chamber, Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan, facing a potentially* tough reelection this year, announced

I don’t really feel like getting into an argument about Israel today, but Eli Lake at The Washington Times reports: President Obama has reaffirmed a

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck accused someone, somewhere, of orchestrating phone calls about the conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in

MSNBC and Roll Call are reporting that moments ago on the Senate floor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) read a letter from Vice President-elect Joe

Two reporters who filed a ton of great, context-building coverage of the National Tea Party Convention were Jillian Bandes of Townhall.com and Lydia DePillis of

John Judis at The New Republic joins a growing chorus of voices wondering if President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan goes far enough. We’re talking about a

... Fox News. But, really, was there ever any doubt? Drudge reports that Greta Van Susteren has landed the interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She is

How did Afghanistan become more dangerous than Iraq? Spencer Ackerman reports.

The Bush administration is set to argue to the military commissions appeals court in Washington Tuesday that a confession obtained from a teenager under torture

The man who managed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s successful 2008 Iowa Caucuses campaign has signed on to manage Minnesota U.S. Rep.