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Nancy Youssef at McClatchy reports that Defense Secretary Bob Gates has ordered incoming Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his deputy, Gen.

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget, here’s the showdown you’ve been waiting for: Defense Secretary Bob Gates, who cut er,

Following in the footsteps of Indiana and Kansas, the state of North Carolina has denied Planned Parenthood its state and federal funding. # The chain of women’s health clinics in the state lost three sources of state and federal funds when the state’s legislature voted yesterday to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the budget that included the cuts.

A community group in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest organization to take issue with the Obama administration’s rosy assessment of the status of the Gulf oil

Tomorrow, the House reconvenes to vote on a $26.1 billion state aid package, providing Medicaid and teachers’ jobs funding to cash-strapped states. And while

Perhaps there’s nothing eye-popping about a small-town mayor rejoicing over a big-time check from Washington, but in the context of Alaska Gov. Sarah

Lawmakers, bankers and experts say some problems that brought down the financial system have yet to be solved.

Protesters demonstrate against Arizona S.B. 1070 (Pic by ProgressOhio, via Flickr ) A legal challenge to Arizona’s controversial immigration enforcement law, known as S.B

This is the English-language website of Ahrar, a secularist Iraqi political party contesting the March 7 parliamentary elections that used to be somewhat

As the extensive NATO/Afghan campaign to take the Helmand Province regions in and around Marja -- home to an estimated 75,000 Afghans-- away from the Taliban

Paul Curry is out of work. His unemployment claim hasn’t yet been ruled on

After I wrote my story this morning on the National Tea Party Convention and the troubles the movement’s been having as it moves into the political big time, I

So says Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), head of the Environment and Public Works Committee, who announced this afternoon that the panel will hold hearings on

Buried in that New York Times story I mentioned earlier about Obama’s quest for a CIA director comes this weird quote from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that

The debate over how to modernize the nation’s international spying laws in the midst of its so-called war on terror was stepped up a notch last Friday,

Starting in January, the maximum number of weeks someone can receive state unemployment benefits in Florida will fall from 26 weeks to 23.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) might be hating on Leon Panetta, but Rep. Rush Holt, the progressive New Jersey congressman who chairs the House Select

Here’s the letter from Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asking Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to

Via The Hill, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee later this month to testify on his role

In a coup for offshore wind advocates, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed today the first ever lease for an offshore wind project in the United

At The Washington Post, Lori Montgomery has details on a possible White House stimulus plan comprised entirely of tax cuts: Among the options are a temporary