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Flouting a federal court order, the CIA refused Wednesday to make public long-secret records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on

Charles “Buddy” Roemer , 67, former Louisiana Republican governor, is expected to make his 2012 presidential campaign official on Thursday in New Hampshire, which is also going to be where he focuses his attention. Buddy Roemer Carlos Sierra, Roemer’s campaign manager, told CNN that his boss will be living in New Hampshire and “campaigning the heck out of the state.” His campaign plans to make the Granite State the primary focus early on; Roemer recently moved into an apartment in Manchester with his son. Sierra said when Roemer campaigned for Sen.

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) added one more a superdelegate before the close of business today. Jaime A. Gonzalez Jr., a Texas Democratic National Committee

As The New York Times reported in a front-page story today, President Obama is slowly coming around to saying he’s thinking that he’s probably going to do

Are there really any “lone wolves” engaging in dangerous terrorist liaisons? That’s what some opponents of section 6001(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act are

Fresh out: The United States and the European Union condemn the continuing human rights violations in Iran since the June 12 election. The large scale

We read lots of emails from the presidential campaigns around here, but sometimes the most interesting ones say nothing at all. Bill Burton, chief

So says the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee -- a group of economists charged with officially determining whether the

Provided South Carolina’s GOP can raise enough money to host the coveted first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary, the state will significantly impact which

The count was 56 to 43 to tweak the large health reform bill signed by President Obama on Tuesday. Because the proposal was moving via the reconciliation

Earlier this week, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) told Fox News that he doesn’t support a tax hike to pay for the Afghanistan war until the nation’s jobless rate

Nathan Hodge reports for Danger Room that the U.S. military has put out a solicitation for a contract worth up to $25 million to build three new detention

A list of billionaire industrialists and conservative magnates that help fund Charles and David Koch’s far-reaching empire was released by Mother Jones magazine

In October, freshman Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas) introduced a resolution honoring James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles for their ACORN sting. Thirty-one Republicans

Cynthia Quarterman, the regulatory agency administrator, worked as legal counsel for Enbridge Energy, the owner of the burst pipeline.

In response to my story this morning on how Gov. Sarah Palin couches her discussion of special-needs children in anti-abortion rights language, several readers