Breaking News

Politico reporters transcribe, you decide: Cheney was asked if he thinks the Bush administration bears any responsibility for the disintegration of Afghanistan

With less than two weeks remaining before the Republican National Committee votes to select its next chair, the New Year’s holiday weekend saw a number of new

White House: Decision to appoint new social secretary will not affect donors’ access to lawmakers. Liz Cheney’s group attacks lawyers defending Gitmo

There’s no good response to the command Prove you don’t support Hezbollah. Acceding to a bad-faith frame is hopeless. That’s why we consider When did you

Add Iowa’s Democratic Gov. Chet Culver to the growing (and bipartisan) list of governors who have received letters containing a mysterious powder this week,

Congressional Democrats haven’t had much luck with efforts to move stimulus legislation this week. Plans to pump billions of dollars into public works projects

Kerry Picket reports that Marvel Comics is partially apologizing for a storyline that portrays Captain America investigating white supremacists and observing a

The mayhem left defense attorneys scrambling to talk to Omar Khadr. How quick can we get on the road, guys? was the last thing they said before racing out the door.

Marathon Petroleum Co. has announced that it will offer to buy more than 300 homes near the southwest Detroit refinery that is being upgraded to process more Canadian tar sands oil

While Democrats grilled the author of a bill that would authorize state-issued “Choose Life” license plates about the legislation’s political undertones,

The rise of online discounting, layaway programs, the reluctance of stores to haggle and, most important, the economic crisis could make this year’s Black Friday a dismal shopping day. But some analysts say that what has become for many consumers a ritual of the holiday season will keep cash registers busy.

Former Sen. Norm Coleman, chair of a non-profit group that pumped at least $18 million towards conservative candidates or issues in the last election cycle, is joining Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination as a special advisor, Romney’s campaign said Wednesday. “His advice will be critical as I lay out my vision for improving our economy at home and strengthening our partnerships around the world,” a statement on Romney’s campaign website read

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued a strong statement today in response to the release of the CIA inspector general report

In Portland, Maine, San Francisco and New York, measures under consideration would allow non-citizen immigrants to vote in local elections.

In a newly published paper, Ben Lauderdale, a Ph.D. student in Princeton’s Department of Politics, uses a statistical analysis to plot the relative

Affordable housing goals did not spark the economic crisis -- despite what conservatives say. For lenders, the lure of the subprime market was high yields.

While much of the national security establishment’s attention is understandably focused on how the Obama administration handles Afghanistan -- both the increase

Well, so much for last-ditch efforts to retain access to Kyrgyzstan’s massive Manas airbase, a key logistical hub for the Afghanistan war. Danger Room’s Nathan

After announcing Wednesday that the “smoking jalapenno ” had been found on a farm in Mexico, witnesses at a hearing Thursday continued to dance around the

No one likes paying taxes, responds Scott Brown to news of the plane attack on a Texas IRS building. What are Obama’s biggest challenges in 2010? Here’s a