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Via Rachel Weiner, Joe McGinniss discovers that Sarah Palin is, instead of riding her decked-out book tour bus, cosseted in the luxury of a Gulfstream II

Prosecutors today unexpectedly canceled the first court hearing scheduled for the underpants bomber -- the Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a

The administration will have to reconcile its new goals with the escalated war and unilateral right to assassinate terrorists around the world that it has also pursued.

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Via Mark Knoller, the Treasury Department announced that as of yesterday, the U.S. national debt has crossed the $13 trillion mark. The exact number is now

The movement to extend the school day in the hopes of improving student performance in Chicago’s public school system is off to a slow start, but the effort follows an emerging national trend of policy makers and administrators who believe American school children are not spending enough time in school.

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The key bit of this story on a number of conservative House Republicans howling — sorry, proceeding to the floor of the world’s second-greatest deliberative

Apparently Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) remarks to CNN about waiting until the Afghan election is sorted out before committing more U.S. troops was Obama

Despite petitions from women’s rights groups and emails from customers, department store chain Dillard’s is proceeding with sponsoring a second fundraiser with

Though the contentious 2011 budget process is over and Planned Parenthood will continue receiving federal support, the fight against the organization continues,

The Federal Open Market Committee, the guiding policy committee of the Federal Reserve, is gaining increasing attention from lawmakers and politicians on both

After seven long days of partisan haggling, the Senate Finance Committee early Friday morning wrapped up its debate on the panel’s sweeping health reform

So Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged would-be bomber of Northwest Airlines Flight 253, is being detained and questioned in a federal prison in Michigan.

Following up on Spencer’s post, The Los Angeles Times today makes much of the fact that Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan Tuesday told senators that she

The Senate just voted 62-30 to allow a $15 billion jobs bill to go to the floor for a final up-or-down vote. Five Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for the

Florida provides the lede for ProPublica’s latest : # Florida is a state of stark contrasts. Travel a few miles from the opulent mansions of Miami Beach and you reach desperately poor neighborhoods

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman interviews an engineering student in Tehran on recent developments in the country.

More on Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.). While he might be the darling of Sarah Palin and Tea Party groups in today’s Kansas GOP Senate primary, they can’t be

Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have introduced an energy tax incentives bill that they are urging the Senate to pass before the end of