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Although court-watchers were predicting that the Supreme Court would decide yesterday whether to hear the appeal from a group of Chinese Muslim detainees at

Spencer Kornhaber follows up on the story of Orly Taitz seeking ... something from the United Nations as she faces various shadowy threats to her crusade to

These are medieval documents, these Office of Legal Counsel memos. And not just in the sense that torture techniques like the waterboard date back to medieval

A former minister in the reformist government of Mohammed Khatami just posted on Mir Hossein Moussavi’s Website -- which I suppose is unblocked for the moment

I wrote in my earlier post about Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy’s forthcoming Afghanistan speech at the American Enterprise Institute

Muntader al-Zaidi, the 29-year old journalist arrested for throwing his shoes at President Bush this weekend, faced an Iraqi judge today. Via Siun at

We know what John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security thinks about the future of the U.S.-Iraq relationship. What does Samir Sumaida’ie, the Iraqi

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Retiring Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel was once called (R-France) on the cover of National Review for his various conservative unorthodoxies. According to Sam

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who seems to have made a second career in this sort of thing, is accusing the White House of promoting Democratic power lawyer Bob

As more details emerge on workplace safety abuses in Michigan after the Enbridge oil spill, a new report by the Center for Progressive Reform argues the

In advance of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s audience with President Obama tomorrow, Meghan O’Sullivan, the Bush White House’s Iraq director from 2004

Detainees moving through immigration courts lack certain rights that most Americans take for granted, and among them is the right to legal counsel. Although a

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) didn’t mince words today in calling for the repeal of the long-standing ban on gay men donating blood. Not a single piece of

Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University yesterday, President Obama did what environmental advocates have been urging him to do for weeks now: He turned public

CEDAR RAPIDS — For nearly an hour Tuesday evening, former U.S. Sen

Rep. Denny McNamara, R-Hastings, told the South Washington County Bulletin on Monday that he hasn’t yet decided which way he will vote on a proposal that would codify a ban on same-sex marriage into the Minnesota Constitution

Today at TWI, we started running a series of stories on New Orleans five years after Katrina, trying to investigate some of the overlooked, unexpected

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Ah, the tease. By the time the McCain press corps boarded the Straight Talk Boeing 747 we had been worked up in a frenzy worthy of a Hannah

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney plans to forgo the Ames Straw Poll, a political event and Iowa GOP fundraiser that has been previously used to measure grassroots candidate support. During the 2008 presidential contests, the Romney campaign spent in excess of $1 million to claim straw poll victory