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Before Bill Clinton secured the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, I made the longshot prediction that the noontime State Department press briefing would be

With the exit of 43 House Democrats who voted for last year’s cap-and-trade bill, environmental progress will be hard to come by.

This morning I got an email from a spokesman for Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, objecting to my characterization of him in my

Civil and immigrant rights groups have expressed outrage about a federal judge’s decision to allow many of the provisions of Alabama’s new immigration

Apropos of Friday’s queries about Gen. Raymond Odierno’s commitment to the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement that guarantees the withdrawal of all U.S.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee finished hearing directly from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan yesterday, after 17 hours of question-and-answer

A state panel in California yesterday approved a proposal to require 33 percent of the state’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Environmentalists

Laura Rozen is at The Hague to report on tomorrow’s United Nations summit on Afghanistan, which the Iranians have agreed to attend. Rozen finds the Iranians

Alan Schram at Seeking Alpha takes some notes at the annual conference of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm run by the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.

I don’t believe it either, but, via Bill Roggio, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says Pakistani intelligence believe it to be so but don’t have any, like,

While President Obama may choose to end the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling a month early, it doesn’t look like we’ll see any new drilling until

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) today issued not one but two press releases responding to the latest batch of Bush-era Office of Legal

In response to guidance from the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Macomb County Health Department has changed the client acknowledgment forms they use — but some advocates say they haven’t gone far enough yet. Dr

On the heels of the Mullah Baradar arrest, Sami Yousafzai and Mark Hosenball report that the Taliban’s shadow governor in Kunduz, Mullah Abdul Salam, has been

Now that it’s more or less official that Republicans will take over the House, key Republicans are working to position themselves to take over the House Energy

State Senator David Robertson (R-Grand Blanc Twp.) has introduced a bill that would require doctors to offer keepsake ultrasound photos to women who are seeking abortions. The bill requires that doctors perform an ultrasound, offer a description of the ultrasound image, an opportunity to listen to the heartbeat of the embryo or fetus, and a hard copy of the image.

Rep. Michele Bachmann has selected high-profile political strategist Ed Rollins to run her presidential campaign, two sources close to Bachmann told CBS

Not since Lt. Governor Bill Halter’s (D-Ark.) primary race and battle for the public option in the health care debate has MoveOn.org looked this

In light of Iraq spokeman Ali al-Dabbagh’s vision of Iraq pushing the Middle East in a European Union-style direction of common markets, it’s striking just how