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The political wrangling over where Guantanamo Bay detainees are going to go is only getting more complicated -- and stranger -- as the president’s deadline for

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) plans to announce his pick for a temporary successor to late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) sometime between Friday and Sunday. In

We need to be buying more oil from Canada. That’s what Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) told a Canadian newspaper this weekend on a trip to the country to observe

With the Senate race in West Virginia between sitting Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and businessman John Raese in a virtual dead heat going into the final week,

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared at a forum on Republicans and the Hispanic vote at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, getting a standing

In a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the health insurance lobby reiterated today that it won’t be supporting the $894 billion reform

The explosive inspectors general report released on Friday makes one thing increasingly clear: the Bush White House knew that it was probably breaking the

Blogger Jordan Carmon catches Marco Rubio’s upstart Senate campaign putting together an ad against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) -- his opponent in the 2010 GOP

A test case for climate change litigation was dismissed by a federal appeals court on Friday in a little-noticed afternoon ruling, leaving the door open for a

Based on Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ call last summer for a truce on social issues, for some, it came as a surprise that he wasted no time

I didn’t have it when I put my piece to bed last night, but here it is. It’s short and straightforward. Repeal only takes effect after the Pentagon working

Newsweek has intelligently re-posted the transcript of an interview Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar -- the captured Taliban leader -- granted the magazine late last

The ongoing vaccines-cause-autism debate has taken a new turn recently. There’s really little left to be debated, since the scientific evidence has

Give this to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.): He wasn’t lying when he said he wasn’t a good fit in President Obama’s cabinet. Gregg, of course, withdrew his

Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this morning that he’d met with Vice President Joe Biden, who was in Phoenix fundraising for Democratic

Rahm Emanuel could face a serious challenge from Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of the most vocal supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress,

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Predictably, it depends on whom you ask. The major corporate players in the spill were BP, which leased the well, Transocean, which operated the rig, and

No surprise that President Obama’s top economic adviser Larry Summers was among those gathered at today’s White House meeting with credit card executives. But

Fox News continues its drumbeat on the rampant, largely ignored and troubling issue of voter fraud with a story about Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick

Teenagers who live in politically conservative parts of the country are more depressed and suicidal than teens who live in politically progressive parts of the country, according to a study by Columbia University psychologist Mark Hatzenbuehler published this week.