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Florida’s Republican Senate primary has quickly become a contest between the party’s base and its national leadership.

Time is almost up for the Obama administration’s dual-tracked approach to Iran. As the Islamic Republic keeps rejecting the administration’s diplomatic

Reid Wilson breaks the news: Allison Meyers, director of the RNC’s Young Eagles program, was terminated yesterday after reports that the RNC reimbursed a

If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their unemployment benefits and Medicare doctors will take a 21 percent rate cut.

CNN is reporting that a Western source close to the Afghan leadership is saying talks for next week’s runoff election between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah

The Los Conchas wildifre has burned 43,000 acres since Sunday, forcing residents of Los Alamos to evacuate Monday, reports the Los Alamos Monitor: County officials issued a mandatory evacuation for Los Alamos Town Site and residents left Monday afternoon. Shelters open at this time are the Santa Claran Resort Center, Cities of Gold Casino and Pojoaque High School. A Type I Incident Management has been ordered and in its latest advisory, the Forest Service said, seven Hotshot crews (Type 1 crews), 12 Type 2 Crews, 7 engines, and 20 aircraft (12 air tankers and 8 helicopters)

At a critical juncture in the Senate’s energy and climate negotiations, the president chose not to push a carbon pricing proposal.

I’m heading home now, but the NACA people tell me they’ll be here again until midnight. People who have been waiting all day in various lines look tired and

Dave Camp may represent Michigan in Congress but he apparently has little concern about helping the state avoid more budget cuts and business taxes.

John McCain worked on key legislation with Rep. Rick Renzi, now indicted in connection with the sale of a business associate’s land. Did the senator know about any of it?

There’s been a lot of unnecessary politicization of national security issues,’’ Holder testified.

In advance of this morning’s big Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Blackwater in Afghanistan, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) wrote a diary for the

In the wake of recent damning testimony and reports outlining the tactics used by insurance companies to bolster bottom lines, The New York Times today takes a

Here’s a short video from the gathering of Tea Party activists today in Washington, before they set off to stage a die-in in Senate office buildings to

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Maher Arar may not have been able to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal for redress after U.S. officials rendered him to Syria to be tortured.

The Michigan Messenger’s Eartha Jane Melzer reports that if it comes from Lake Huron, it might be: In its “2008 Michigan Family Fish Consumption Guide: