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A federal judge this morning ordered five detainees freed from Guantanamo Bay, according to the New York Times. Following closed-door hearings in which the

In an interview with Pennsylvania’s Wayne Independent this morning, second-term Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) officially threw his name in the ring to take on Sen.

President Barack Obama is expected to create a new advisory council Thursday that will focus on quality of life and economic issues facing rural America. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor, will likely lead the effort. An unnamed White House official told the Associated Press that Obama will sign an executive order to establish the Rural Council, and that the advisory group will give recommendations to the administration on a wide variety of interests and issues facing the millions of Americans who live in rural areas, beginning with economic development and job creation

Barack Obama birthers are hours away from annoying Chief Justice John Roberts with a stack of petitions, asking him to hear one of the many junk lawsuits

President Obama’s American Jobs Act would mean tax cuts for businesses, an extension of the payroll tax cut, extended unemployment insurance and thousands of jobs in Iowa, according to Obama for America. Here’s the American Jobs Act’ s impact on Iowa: * 60,000 businesses would see a payroll tax cut on the first $5 million in wages.

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Following up on Spencer’s earlier post about President Obama’s meeting today with numerous members of his national security team, the White House released this

Libertarian Eric Sundwall, who collected twice as many signatures as he needed to make the ballot in the NY-20 special election, might be bounced out of the

Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal looks at President Obama’s efforts to reform defense contracting and is less than impressed: hat goes unanswered is who is

In the wake of his announcement today he is running for President , U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has also established a website to inform and encourage attendance of Iowa’s August straw poll, campaign officials said this afternoon

More on U.S. efforts to aid Pakistanis displaced by the current military efforts against the Taliban. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to know if Blair agrees with harmonizing CIA interrogations with the Geneva-complaint Army Field Manual on interrogations. He

During a brief exchange in Washington, D.C.

The White House wants to see your Facebook friend requests. Michele Bachmann can’t stop talking about impeaching Obama. Crack sentencing will soon be more

My friend Tim Carney took over the 42-year-old Evans-Novak Political Report after its chief author, Robert Novak, fell ill late last year. (Co-founder Rowland

Congress didn’t just agree to keep the government’s lights on through the rest of the fiscal year. It is also ensuring it has the option of doing so with energy-sucking incandescent 100-watt bulbs

I don’t know how seriously to take Republican candidate Jim Tedisco’s ballot challenges in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election when his

In the latest incident of Tea Party infighting, a rally in Orlando saw Tea Partiers alleging that the Florida Tea Party would hurt its election chances.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Navy Commander Brad Fagan, a spokesman for the military command running the detention facility here, told reporters that Omar Khadr is being

Confused about the financial crisis? The rise of mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps? So, it appears, were the credit ratings agencies -- the