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The Michigan Messenger reports on a state legislature hearing about a proposal to relocate Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Standish, Mich., maximum-security

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims -- or, as Spencer puts it, simply lying -- on the

The New York Daily News was embedded with Meghan McCain, who will soon release a book about life as a Republican, at the White House Correspondents Dinner,

“They flew all the way here just to basically say, ‘We’re going back on our word,’” said an attorney briefed on the Tuesday meeting. “The whole entire thing is kind of a puppet show.”

GUANTANAMO BAY -- The military commission for Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen held here since 2002 and charged with killing a U.S. soldier, doesn’t get

The speed of this campaign, and the slow reaction of Democrats who considered the seat safe until one week ago, have let the Republican candidate blur the details.

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg marked the one-year anniversary of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility by saying the fund has at least looked at 97 percent of the claims it has received. # In other words, he said, the fund is now “current,” and anyone still calling his process slow or delay-ridden ( a common complaint in the fund’s early days ) “just isn’t looking at the statistics.” # To date, the fund has paid out some $5 billion, including slightly more than $2 billion to Florida — more than any other state. # Of some 131,794 Florida claimants in the fund’s post-emergency phase, 72,446 have received final payments and waived their right to sue BP. Only 4,405 remain under review

An ideological battle drives the debate in Congress, despite poll numbers suggesting Americans see the issue through practical eyes.

So, OK, Saudi Arabia has a pretty impressive deradicalization program. But would deradicalization work in Pakistan? Doubtful, says Kenneth Ballen of an

From The Minnesota Independent: No Republican contenders in the 2010 gubernatorial contest — except environmental activist Leslie Davis — believe in global

Modern presidential campaigns don’t just work the refs. They obsess over the media. Gov. Sarah Palin can’t seem to finish a rally without riffing on her

This seems to have flown mostly under the radar, but on Tuesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the sharpest Democratic critics of a public option, told The

McFaul falls well below the radar in terms of staffers, but he holds a portfolio of tremendous importance: the reset button on U.S.-Russian relations. As

ASPEN, Colo.--The climate is an historically awful one for Republicans, Nicolle Wallace said. It’s just terrible. Wallace, the communications

Seemingly taking a page right out of the Mark Udall/Michael Bennet playbook , Montana Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Tester is running for reelection as a moderate who campaigns in cowboy boots and decries the extremism of today’s Congress. Tester will likely get his state’s Democratic votes while ceding most of the Republican votes to his opponent

Congratulations to Michele Flournoy, whom the Senate just confirmed as the new undersecretary of defense for policy; Jeh Charles Johnson, whom the Senate just

That’s the subject of an increasingly heated charge from the Afghan government after a Dec. 27 raid in the eastern province of Kunar left nine men dead. The

While private lenders completed 120,000 permanent modifications monthly in early 2009, only about 10,000 were completed through October under the government initiative.

The Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition, part of a network of groups created by religious right icon Ralph Reed , is hosting a strategy session on the ballot measure to put a ban on marriage for same-sex couples in the Minnesota Constitution . Former gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer will emcee the October event, and Sen

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The Senate has rejected a Republican amendment that would have blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions

Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt

This week, the Third Wave Foundation (TWF), an activist organization that works with young women and transgender youth, released a report (PDF) that

There’s a big international conference in London beginning next Thursday to harmonize allied civilian efforts in Afghanistan. One thing to expect out of it: new