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Yesterday, in the waning hours before the long October recess, during which members of Congress campaign, the Senate confirmed a spate of nominees. Among them

In May, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released an audit revealing that the FBI’s terrorist watchlist -- the list used at border

Suggesting that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leave the room in the debate over end-of-life counseling, conservative Washington Post columnist Charles

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele + conservative radio show = hilarious gaffes. The liberal blog Fired Up! has the audio of Steele rolling

Adam Serwer at TAPPED, reading reports of how White House aide John Brennan is pushing to stop declassifications of torturous CIA interrogations,

It turns out the special ethics committee meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. has, like so many Washington events, been pushed back, at least temporarily. House Ethics

The 2011 legislative special session begins today in Santa Fe to deal with the once-per-decade process of redistricting, but Gov. Susana Martinez has demanded lawmakers repeal driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and end social promotion for third-graders, among other provisions. The legislature will take up the redistricting of congressional and legislative districts.

Remember how I wrote yesterday that the next round of Afghanistan/Pakistan/U.S. trilateral talks would be held in Washington on May 5 to 7? According to a

The anti-czar frenzy has faded a bit, despite two Senate hearings on the extremely flimsy controversy. Today, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) wades back in and makes a

Even as tar balls wash up on Florida Panhandle shores from the April 19 oil spill, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio stands consistently behind

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has distributed a press release stating, if circuitously, that Republicans will agree to start formal debate on

Roland Burris, the scandal-plagued accidental senator from Illinois, will not seek his own term in the Senate. The Chicago Sun-Times has the scoop: The

ProPublica and NPR’s Planet Money are up with a great investigation into how banks sustained demand for risky mortgage-backed securities, even as the housing

I wasn’t able to join yesterday’s briefing with two U.S. officials who commented on James Risen’s big story about geologists’ estimate that Afghanistan

Lest you should think that Sen. Max Baucus’ (D-Mont.) no vote on the Environment and Public Works Committee’s climate bill signaled his opposition to

Somehow, the 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court earlier today in Ricci v. DeStefano has been turned into a 9-0 ruling against Supreme Court nominee Sonia

Republicans won an historic number of Congressional seats in the midterm election just six months ago. Tonight Fox News is hosting the first 2012 GOP presidential primary election debate and it will feature something like the weakest early lineup of candidates in modern memory.

Ben Smith points us to the lawsuit that original Barack Obama Birther Phil Berg has filed against ... well, not everyone in the movement, but pretty close.

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.), who is often mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate for the GOP, spoke yesterday at the Capitol Visitors Center on the