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Both Eli Lake and Greg Miller report that President Obama personally asked Steve Kappes last year to remain the CIA’s deputy director. Kappes’ boss, Leon

In a stark departure from the current White House, the president-elect warns of hard choices ahead as U.S. seeks to pull back from financial disaster. After short-term spending to right the economy, Obama looks to long-term spending cuts.

Sen. Julianne Ortman of Chanhassen earned praise for the Log Cabin Republicans on Friday after she was the lone Republican to vote to table a bill that adds a constitutional ban on gay marriage to the 2012 ballot

The Washington Post’s Perry Bacon Jr. reports today that, unsurprisingly, Sen. Hillary Clinton is putting everything on the line to win North Carolina’s May 6

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

This is a very big deal. The Obama administration has been pressing Pakistan to expand its military successes against the Taliban in the Swat Valley for months.

More than 200,000 people gathered on the National Mall today to participate in March for America, a rally advocating comprehensive immigration

When it rains, it pours, and when a reporter finds a good story, they don’t let go. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow seems to have found a good story in Colorado. This week, she ran her third segment on Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s efforts to stop county clerks from mailing ballots to inactive voters

Maj. Stefan F. Cook, the reservist whose clever scheme to back out of his voluntary deployment by suing for proof of President Obama’s citizenship ended with

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.)

It’s all credit cards, all day long. And Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee went on MSNBC, this afternoon to reiterate his

News out of the conference committee splitting the differences between the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform: The Consumer Financial

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

U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack became the first House Democrat Friday to co-sponsor proposed legislation that would set the age at which members of Congress are eligible to draw from their pension to the age of retirement under the Social Security Act.

Just released from the Senate Armed Services Committee: This afternoon, June 26, 2008, the committee was able to establish a quorum and voted, by voice

This didn’t fit into my piece yesterday, but at his parley with the Council on Foreign Relations, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the Pakistani foreign minister, said

With so much speculation on whether Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) will support the health reform bill finalized by the Senate Finance Committee last week, the