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President Obama said last night that civilian deaths in Iraq remain very low compared to what was going on last year. McClatchy: But statistics kept

The Obama administration today begins implementation of a new mandate to require all federal contractors to check the legal status of their employees to confirm

Too close to racial profiling, says Michael German, a former FBI counterterrorism agent who’s now the civil liberties organization’s national-security legal

Here’s White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, responding today to questions about Tim Geithner’s role in the New York Fed’s 2008 decision to censor AIG payments to

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Yesterday, I noted that industry groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are saying some not-unflattering things about the climate bill being unveiled

Via Ezra Klein, today the Washington Times gives us a gift-wrapped present for the holidays:

According to Ali Soufan, the battle lines in the internal debate at the CIA facility where Abu Zubaydah was to be tortured broke down this way: FBI and CIA all

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has, for months, bent over backward to piece together a health reform proposal capable of winning at

The U.S. Postal Service is hurting. In April, The American Independent reported that it’s teetering on the brink of financial insolvency, with no obvious

Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine), the only Republican to offer the least bit of support for the Democrats’ health reform legislation this year, said Tuesday that she

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The budget recently approved by Congress to keep the federal government running through the 2011 fiscal year includes a series of cuts to major federal immigration agencies that will impact immigrants and immigration programs over the next year. # According to the American Immigration Council : # The bar on spending for immigrant integration programs, present in the initial budget passed by the House (H.R. 1), was not present in the final 2011 budget (H.R

Data from Obama’s press communications reveal a plethora of attacks on his Republican opponents. The campaign tried many tacks to shift the tide.

The White House quickly shot down Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s proposal to tax mileage, but the debate over the idea continues.

The magnitude of the hypocrisy of the McCain campaign’s attacks last week against Sen. Barack Obama for his campaign’s ties to Fannie Mae is only now coming to

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich -- who bounded onto the CPAC stage to the strains of Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger -- predicted that the GOP will

Attacks launched by the Obama administration and other Democratic-leaning groups against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Crossroads GPS are translating into

In theory, 2009 was a bad year for the former presidential nominee. Sen. Kerry (D-Mass.) aggressively auditioned in 2008 for the position of secretary of state,

Polls show a solidly, if not overwhelmingly, favorable response to the State of the Union. Nate Silver breaks down Obama’s use of buzzwords, finds