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I just got off the phone with David Brian Brown, the St. Louis, Mo., lawyer who has appeared with Kenneth Gladney, the black man who claims he was beaten up by

The major investigation of the Fort Hood shooting is a joint law-enforcement effort led by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and supported by the FBI.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a survey by the Georgia Restaurant Association revealed widespread worker shortages in the state’s $14.1 billion

Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, has always been a hapless sort, prone to getting rolled by the Bush

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President-elect Barack Obama took a question on his team of rivals at a press conference in Chicago this morning, where, as Matt DeLong notes, Obama

Wow -- things are moving quickly in this brave new post-election world. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform

Alabama’s new immigration law has been called the most far-reaching of the state-level efforts at cracking down on undocumented immigrants. But of all the

The Washington Pos t recently reported that some Republicans in the U.S. Senate are vowing to hold up legislation until the chamber finds a way to seriously cut spending and overhaul the budget. One of them is Marco Rubio , who is making the fight about President Barack Obama and drawing cheers from the conservative gallery. # “You cannot solve issues of this magnitude without presidential leadership,” he told conservative radio jockey Mark Levin during a discussion of the national debt.

The word of the moment on righty blogs is rude. Liberals on the National Mall were rude for booing and then singing Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye to

Among the many subjects President Obama addressed at his news conference last night, he gave a brief nod to the increasingly controversial problem of his

BOSTON -- Sarah Palin delivered a scathing indictment of the Obama administration at a rally for the Tea Party Express today on the Boston Common. But some in

Today, the Senate is debating the tax extenders’ package, also known as the jobs bill or H.R. 4213. The beleaguered legislation has been cut by more than $100

As of yesterday, banks need to ask customers whether they would like to be allowed to overdraw their checking accounts for a fee, usually $35. About 70 percent

Would you like some irony with that baggie of medical marijuana? Well, like it or not, you’re getting some

Friday saw the end of the first act in Texas’ fight over new district maps drawn by the State Legislature earlier this year. Today, the U.S. Department of

A Senate aide says lawmakers are working on an agreement that could clear the way for an initial procedural vote on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request to declassify certain documents that he said will show the effectiveness of Bush administration interrogation

When the news broke last week that the United States had tried to prevent Binyam Mohamed from suing the U.S. government -- or even talking about his treatment

Despite the Obama administration’s surprisingly vigorous arguments that the case had to be dismissed to prevent disclosure of state secrets, the U.S. Court of

The State Judicial Nominating Commission will begin interviews to fill a vacancy on the Iowa Court of Appeals at 1 p.m. today.