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The tactic has targeted legislation touching issues as varied as credit card reform, unemployment insurance and Indian health care.

It’s a small gesture, but during a press briefing yesterday on coordinating NATO civilian-military planning with Afghan efforts, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, the

PHOENIX -- Sen. John McCain paints himself as a pro-veteran’s veteran, but his voting history tells a different story.

As Matt points out, President George W. Bush announced he wants to see the U.S. start drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and exploring the Arctic National

So says The Hill, which is reporting that the 91-year West Virginia Democrat was released from the hospital Tuesday after more than six weeks of treatment for

Something is definitely happening in the Washington-based Iran debate, because there’s a lot to agree with in this Thomas Jocelyn post at The Weekly Standard.

The Cairo speech has eaten up most of my day, but last night, Bruce Riedel, the chairman of the Obama administration’s strategy review on Afghanistan and

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Roger Simon confirms that the Republican National Committee will vote on, and probably pass, a resolution rebranding Democrats as the ’Democrat Socialist

A source with an environmental group participating in a series of meetings with electric utilities on climate and energy legislation says discussions feel very

The USS Bataan arrived in Port-au-Prince harbor yesterday and by 9 a.m., the Marines on board went ashore to prep the beach for Bataan’s mission to render aid

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- or half of it, more accurately -- has begun its first day of markup of the landmark Kerry-Boxer climate

Police in Oak Park have dropped the case against Julie Bass for having a garden in her front yard. Instead, the city is pursuing criminal charges against her for failing to have her two dogs licensed. Bass made headlines around the world after she went public about the garden fray with Oak Park officials

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on April 16, 2009. These are medieval documents,

The Michigan Messenger’s Minehaha Forman has the details: The FBI has offered Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers a plea deal involving her apparent

A new study by one of the leading auto industry analysis firms concludes that the American domestic automobile market will rebound to a full 16 million vehicles sold by the year 2013, a number that would be near the highest rates of the last decade. The Detroit Free Press reports : New vehicle sales in the U.S

This doesn’t have much actual bearing on the case of Matthew Hoh, the top U.S. civilian official in Zabul Province, resigning from the State Department in

Recent policies put both illegal and legal works at risk.