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Really too disgusting for words: ABC reports that two women have come forward to accuse the CIA’s Algeria station chief of drugging and raping them. (Via

The investigation into the oil spill BP released today is already causing waves. In the report, BP spread the blame for the spill among multiple companies,

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee is targeting newly sworn-in Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for voting today to keep Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in his

Weeks after Gov. Terry Branstad issued a line-item veto to close 36 Iowa Workforce Development field offices statewide, Republicans are sending a message to their Democratic counterparts who wanted to hold a special session to override the veto. No thanks, they’re saying

There were 564 amendments filed to the enormous health reform bill being considered this week in the Senate Finance Committee. This morning -- 26 hours after

The Minnesota Catholic Conference, the policy wing of Minnesota’s Catholic bishops, and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) have registered political action funds (PACs) with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board. The two funds join the Minnesota Family Council Marriage Protection Fund in hopes of raising money to convince voters to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The PACs will allow the groups to raise money for political activity surrounding the 2012 ballot initiative.

Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, has a charming op-ed in USA Today about why reporters don’t deserve a federal shield law: The Senate

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has a lot to gain but also a lot to prove in Iowa between now and the Jan. 3 caucuses, political observers say. Cain has surged in the polls in recent days, moving in closely on perceived frontrunner Mitt Romney while other candidates have fallen behind.

Newt Gingrich, the former GOP Speaker of the House is worth following on Twitter tonight. Example: Nobody messes with joe and the smiles and nancy handshake

Mostly via the blogging of Jim Geraghty, I’d become intrigued by Fred Tausch, a wealthy conservative in New Hampshire who has spent $400,000 on advertisements

A Detroit non-profit has created an interactive guide to 13,000 tax delinquent city properties that will be offered for sale by Wayne County at an online auction scheduled for later this month.

A friend passes on this high-quality video of Rand Paul’s closing statement at a candidate forum for Kentucky U.S. Senate candidates. If you’ve watched enough

The Republican National Committee has a new website making appeals for its Get Out the Vote Program, and the message is entirely designed to play into the

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Testifying remotely, a young man known to us as Interrogator #1 first said he never threatened a 15-year-old Omar Khadr with rape in the

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) may have made quite the bureaucratic gambit today by calling for an acceleration of the schedule to train Afghan security forces ahead

The timing here isn’t coincidental, nor are the players. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), who head the Senate Ethics Committee,

Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs indicated that President Obama might push for another unemployment extension in November, when the extension

The Troubled Asset Relief Program’s inspector general, Neil Barofsky is out with a scathing report today, contending the program already is marred by tax and

Classified for years -- and still heavily redacted -- here is former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s 2004 report into the CIA’s Bush-era interrogations

Feeding into right-wing hysteria, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Ginigrich told a tea party audience in Orlando this month that if he were elected president, one of his very first executive orders would be cutting funding to the United Nations’ Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is a 19-year-old initiative launched by the United Nations to promote sustainable development in communities all over the world. The initiative is a non-binding program that provides local communities that seek to grow in a manner that is kind to the environment with resources such as grant and conference announcements.