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So Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged would-be bomber of Northwest Airlines Flight 253, is being detained and questioned in a federal prison in Michigan.

Following up on Spencer’s post, The Los Angeles Times today makes much of the fact that Solicitor General nominee Elena Kagan Tuesday told senators that she

The Senate just voted 62-30 to allow a $15 billion jobs bill to go to the floor for a final up-or-down vote. Five Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for the

Florida provides the lede for ProPublica’s latest : # Florida is a state of stark contrasts. Travel a few miles from the opulent mansions of Miami Beach and you reach desperately poor neighborhoods

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman interviews an engineering student in Tehran on recent developments in the country.

More on Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.). While he might be the darling of Sarah Palin and Tea Party groups in today’s Kansas GOP Senate primary, they can’t be

Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have introduced an energy tax incentives bill that they are urging the Senate to pass before the end of

The thought of Vice President Dick Cheney in a form-fitting bat costume might be too much for most people to bear. But the concepts of security and danger

Looks like he was for him before he was against him. Billionaire Jeff Greene, who will reportedly announce his Democratic candidacy for Florida U.S. Senate

For some reason MSNBC just had Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) on to talk about the fringe House Republican demands for Homeland Security Secretary Janet

Here’s a little fuel to the rumors that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is looking at a return to politics, including a possible 2012 run for president. The

The 15 banking CEOs who met with President Obama today in Washington head financial institutions that spent at least $45 million on lobbying in 2008, and gave

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The Obama administration is considering stripping the Securities and Exchange Commission of some its oversight powers, and shifting that responsibility to the

I can’t be the only person to have winced a little at this color in Joseph Curl’s ultra-sarcastic write-up of a speech by Vice President Joe Biden. Mr. Biden

In the course of a piece I’m proud of about David Kilcullen’s forthcoming strategy-level counterinsurgency handbook, I included a profanity-laden quote from him

The Washington Post reports this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin frequently billed the state a per diem -- meant to cover travel expenses on official

Georgia’s immigration-enforcement law H.B. 87, effective today, is being met with protests in Atlanta, while protests against new immigrant detention centers will take place in Miami and other U.S. cities

With the expected announcement of the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, a Republican-driven hysteria is virtually

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a long-time abortion rights advocate, is predicting that a controversial amendment restricting abortion coverage that passed the