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Check out Rachel Maddow going hard on Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) for publicly revealing that the U.S. intelligence community is intercepting the

Initial claims for unemployment insurance climbed to a nine-month high last week, the Department of Labor said today. Economists had expected claims to drop

Apparently Robert Gibbs wasn’t playing. After the House Armed Services Committee expressly forbade the Defense Department from spending any money to purchase

As a general deal, President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regime, I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards. But it might be hard to determine the difference.

A military commission judge has ruled that the types of abusive techniques U.S. interrogators used on a suspected 9-11 conspirator are irrelevant to determining

I have a story today on the ever-confusing opt-out process for Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that shares fingerprints collected by

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Nov. 18, 2009. Well-known Israel expert Sarah

The Washington, D.C. based National Organization for Marriage has proven it has no qualms about spending thousands in Iowa’s Senate District 18 to stir the pot on gay marriage. The group also appears to have no qualms about assigning its own talking points to Republican candidate Cindy Golding

Republicans are announcing that their much touted Contract With America, will be unveiled in Virginia on Thursday and they promise that it will present a

In an interview with TWI yesterday at the Capitol, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said she is confident that Kenneth Feinberg, who has been charged by the White

Massachusetts state representatives are vowing to push for tough immigration laws after an illegal immigrant suspected of killing two people was discovered to

As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s voter protection effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted on Election Day.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan declined today to comment on whether states had the right to determine their own marriage laws, citing the likelihood a case

The oil industry vows to fight President Obama’s budget proposal unveiled yesterday that would raise $32 billion by taxing oil companies that failed to pay

As more states consider copying Arizona’s harsh anti-immigration law, at least one state’s GOP leaders decided against taking a stance on the measure. The

As you probably all know by now, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) conceded last night in her reelection battle for U.S. Senate, paving the way for her opponent,

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Jan. 12, 2009. The classic 1985 film Brewster’s

A caravan that environmentalist and renowned climate-change writer Bill Mckibben calls the “largest collective act of civil disobedience in the history of the climate movement” will roll through Boulder and Denver next week to protest the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Designed to carry oil from the tar sands production fields of Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf Coast, the nearest the pipeline comes to Colorado is Nebraska, but activists point out that tar sands oil already comes into Commerce City by pipeline and is then refined by Suncor Energy and sold as gasoline across Colorado at nearly 270 Shell and Phillips 66 stations.

Though foreign-policy experts worry that U.S. actions targeting Al Qaeda in autonomous tribal areas of Afghan-Pakistan border would destabilize Pakistan, Obama insists terrorists must be hunted down.

CNN covers Henrietta Hughes -- the newly homeless woman who told President Obama that she needed help at a town hall Tuesday in Fort Myers, Fla. -- and it makes

The U.N. must reform, Clinton says. It has to become more transparent, more efficient and we will press for those changes. At the same time the United States