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- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), once a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, shot down hopes from advocates that he’d again push for the cause.

President Barack Obama just gave a brief address after his first meeting with his bipartisan commission to investigate the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the

The House might create a new border security bill to address jurisdictional issues over the $600 million border security bill passed by the Senate last week,

Good deal, says Wall Street. Here’s The Associated Press, reporting yesterday on insurance company stock prices after the Senate bill cleared its first

After former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s speech to the Values Voter Summit, he held a short press conference where I asked him to expand on something from his

It comes in this Washington Post story about the aforementioned CIA significant actions: Why would you cancel it? asked Sen. Christopher S. Bond (Mo.),

On the Fence Likely Supporters Likely Opponents 17 38 45 Likely Supporters Senator Stance on Public

Some good news for the estimated 25,000 undocumented students who receive in-state tuition in California: The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously in

A couple weeks ago, a dispatch from The Associated Press reported that Afghan President Hamid Karzai had delivered an 11-point plan to U.S. and NATO officials

More on the question of Gen. Stanley McChrystal testifying to Congress, as the GOP leadership, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) and now Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) all

Has anyone written an essay about the misery that deja vu yields? Because: Four U.S. contractors affiliated with the company formerly known as Blackwater

An anonymous administration official runs an idea up David Ignatius’ flagpole: Frustrated with the poor-to-intransigent pace of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks,

UPDATED: 11:32 p.m. I cannot deny a person, a human being, a worker ... people across this state ... the same rights I have with my wife, said New York Sen.

It’s not totally clear that the Obama administration is going to do this, but just in case the administration is planning on releasing its completed

PART ONE One of the country’s most affluent majority black districts has a foreclosure rate nearing the worst in the country, with the rate of foreclosure fraud spiking along with it.

The effort may provide a test as to how deep American support is for an Afghanistan war.