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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

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.

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,

I’m in the air right now, on my way to Sen. John McCain’s first stop of the day in Tampa, Fla. Next comes Blountville, TN. Then we’re off to Moon Township, PA.

Starting on Sept. 1, when combat troops depart Iraq and 50,000 training/advisory troops remain, the war once known as Operation Iraqi Freedom will become

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

This ad, sponsored by Gov. Joe Manchin (D) in his suddenly tight Senate race in West Virginia, should most likely put to rest questions raised by his opponent,

The nomination of Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for solicitor general -- the government’s top legal representative in cases before the Supreme Court --

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

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

The Interior Department responded swiftly this morning to a report by its inspector general that said last-minute editing by the White House of a report on the

More than seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a state law criminalizing homosexual conduct, the unconstitutional provision remains on the

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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

COMMENTARY The talking heads pretty much got it wrong. It was an anti-gun ballot measure -- more than his race -- that cost Tom Bradley the California governorship.