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As the GOP loses the Senate seat held by Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), who announced today that he’s switching allegiances to the Democrats, former Republican Sen.

Washington, D.C.--Occupy DC is moving to Freedom Plaza by the Washington D.C. City Hall today, with turnout projections at 1,000 participants. The event is

Not long ago, a Marine colonel named Dale Alford who served in Afghanistan had some blunt criteria for how we’d know if U.S. troops were truly partnered with

This email came to reporters’ inboxes from the office of the director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, objecting to this Politico story about Blair’s

The Obama administration is reportedly looking more closely at recess appointments for some nominees who’ve been mowed down by filibusters, with Sen. Richard

I’m going to head over to the Dirksen Senate office building pretty soon to cover the Soufan/Zelikow hearings. But before I go: it looks like Khost

GUANTANAMO BAY -- We’ve just been informed that the recess ordered by Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge, to ensure Omar Khadr will be advised of his

A dangerous bacterial infection that can cause serious disease and death in dogs, and can spread to humans, has been identified in an outbreak in Detroit. MLive.com reports that the disease Leptospirosis has been identified in 20 dogs in Detroit.

U.S. Senate Republicans recently introduced a bill that would require a doctor to notify a minor’s parents, and wait four days, before providing an abortion .

Greg Sargent has the ad that Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-health care reform 527 run by notorious hospital industry fraudster Rick Scott, will be

A Republican National Committee debate reveals how GOP party leaders aren’t planning on ideological changes.

The New York Times identifies the State Department official who urged Twitter to reschedule a site maintenance -- and risk disrupting the communications of

Citing a new report by the Congressional Budget Office that corn-based ethanol subsidies cost taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)

Illegal immigration is down and Department of Homeland Security officials say the Arizona-Mexico border is more secure than ever. But many people still attempt

Former Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton told a congressional panel today that the department, under her tenure, saw its relationship with the oil

Daphne Eviatar is guest-blogging for Glenn Greenwald today. The following is cross-posted at Salon. If, as the latest reports indicate, Attorney General Eric

The sailing is suddenly much smoother for Leon Panetta’s reported nomination to head the CIA, as California senator and prior Panetta critic Diane Feinstein --

Today on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) took to the chamber floor and asked for unanimous consent to pass his much-discussed bill to raise the

The story out of Colorado is that the Tea Party’s favored Republicans will face the Democrats’ chosen candidates in November, while Connecticut Republican

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, just delivered a floor speech that is deeply

After being repudiated by pillars of the GOP legal establishment over a video that calls Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees the