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TPMDC’s Brian Beutler reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has announced he plans to vote to send the Senate health care bill to the Senate floor. Senate

Elaine Silvestrini reports that Maj. Stefan F. Cook’s request for a Florida court to force Simtech into giving him his old job back has been dismissed, because

In response to former governor and current attorney general Jerry Brown’s (D-Calif.) positive ad selling his time in office to Californians who might not

At the bottom of Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s deeply reported story about why Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen relieved Gen.

The new book aims to train soldiers for the elements of persistent conflict, the kind the military was not prepared for in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As an addendum to this post, I see Ian Kelly, a spokesman for the State Department, had this exchange with a reporter today over the propriety of the

GOP candidate and U.S. Rep.

Pic by samantha celera, via Flickr This week, reports surfaced of a New Smyrna Beach high school teacher becoming embroiled in possible legal problems because she preregistered high school students to vote.

The US Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari in the case of Rasul v. Rumsfeld, Myers, et al., the first case in which plaintiffs who claim they were

State Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) says he was in on the joke while being interviewed by The Daily Show’s John Oliver. The late-night comedy program

It’s no news that the Obama administration has pushed hard for the creation of a public-plan option to accompany whatever health care reform overhaul the

If there was any question that Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) was enjoying his newfound celebrity, he was back on Sean Hannity’s syndicated radio show today -- his

The Washington Post, this a.m.: President Obama, convening his fifth war council meeting in as many weeks, pressed his senior national security advisers

Following up on my photos earlier, here’s some video from today’s tea party in our nation’s capital. It was a patriotic ceremony all around, and it kicked off

Sunday’s inaugural same-sex marriages in New York were met by thousands of protesters blasting the New York Legislature’s passage of the Marriage Equality

Sen. Ted Stevens, who was found guilty Monday on seven felony charges related to his failure to disclose gifts from an oil services firm, told the Fairbanks

For fourteen years, FAIR has sponsored a mass lobbying campaign they call Hold Their Feet to the Fire. This year’s event, days after the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington, was the biggest yet.

If you weren’t watching MSNBC at around 7 a.m. EST today, you missed some great television. TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on Morning Joe alongside NBC chief

A measure that would override city and county ordinances that help workers cheated out of wages by their employers cleared another hurdle in the state legislature this week. # The Senate Community Affairs committee on Monday approved a bill sponsored by Sen

As Colorado’s state legislature is set to take up the issue of legalizing civil unions , Barbara Bush, daughter of former president George W.

Though Republicans control the U.S. House and Democrats’ hold on the Senate took a hit in the 2010 election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is trying once more to