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Detainees U.S. Government 32 11 Below is a list of the Guantanamo habeas corpus cases in which the U.S. government won. Information compiled

Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Fla.) waited until today to announce her retirement from Florida’s 5th District, giving potential successors no time to file the

According to the May 30. 2005 Bradbury memo, the CIA has used “enhanced techniques to varying degrees in the interrogations of 28 detainees. The CIA

A new report has renewed the call among gun-control advocates for tighter firearms laws, but such reforms face tough opposition from the powerful gun lobby and its congressional supporters.

A bipartisan federal delegation comprised of both Iowa and Illinois lawmakers wants answers on the rumored relocation of a Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center away from the Rock Island Arsenal as a budget-cutting measure. U.S. Sens

Hamid Karzai went home to Afghanistan last week having reached a modus vivendi with the U.S. on the non-offensive in Kandahar. The Obama administration, the

Following dismissal of his lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for security measures like mandatory pat-downs, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura told reporters Friday that he hasn’t ruled out a run for higher office.

In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will sign into law Monday a bill establishing the Iowa Partnership for Economic Progress, which his administration is calling “a signature piece of Gov.

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Several Democratic senators are staging a media stakeout at the U.S. Capitol today to voice their concerns over the role of complicated finance speculation in

As the debate over deep cuts to the state’s per pupil allowance in education funding continues, Greenhills School in Ann Arbor has released a fundraising video in which school officials say the $20,000 per year tuition per student is not enough to keep the school running. The video features students and faculty from the school, where Gov. Rick Snyder sends his daughter, reading from a script and saying that money raised from an annual auction was necessary to keep the school going.

An interesting revelation from an online reader chat with The Washington Post’s Washington Sketch columnist. My policy in each presidential race is to vote

When people from around the state announced their intention to converge on Benton Harbor during the Blossomtime parade to protest the takeover of that city’s government under the new Emergency Manager law that he’d sponsored, state Rep. Al Pscholka (R-Stevensville) dismissed them as hired guns

Gov. Rick Scott signed his budget this afternoon, but not before wielding his “favorite pen” to strike what he said were $615 million in line-item vetoes

Senate Democrats negotiating health care reforms with Sen. Charles Grassley are finding out the hard way that, while boasting a reputation for reaching across the aisle, he appears hard set on supporting GOP leadership above bipartisan compromise.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) criticized President Obama and the Democrats this afternoon for failing to pass immigration reform, which Obama said he would take up

Last week I wrote about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and how she has changed the model set by the late Clare Boothe Luce, who had set the standard that Republican

An excellent catch from Ben Smith at Politico -- today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a rare comment on the domestic economic situation: The

The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is searching the homes of anti-war activists during terrorism raids: The home of Minneapolis anti-war activists