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President Barack Obama just gave a brief address after his first meeting with his bipartisan commission to investigate the Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the

The House might create a new border security bill to address jurisdictional issues over the $600 million border security bill passed by the Senate last week,

Good deal, says Wall Street. Here’s The Associated Press, reporting yesterday on insurance company stock prices after the Senate bill cleared its first

A chorus of criticism has responded to Gov. Rick Perry’s alliance with the controversial American Family Association, and one Texas legislator is also

Citing the unlikeliness that the public option could pass on the Senate floor, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) just announced that

Yes, Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s strategy review says that the Afghanistan war needs to be properly resourced. But there are so, so, so many elements within it

The three-term Democrat has been a staunch critic of how the Bush administration runs Interior. Now the Obama transition team is considering him to manage a department marred by scandal and low employee morale. But will Grijalva’s combative nature hurt his chances?

Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) is calling for a government moratorium on new regulations for one year, according to Talking Points Memo, with new regulations only

After a meeting today with the Afghan and Pakistani foreign ministers, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that this week’s trilateral talks between

The Obama administration has led a furious charge to convince Congress to help states meet their budget needs -- so far, to no avail.

The White House just announced the leadership of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board: former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a big Obama supporter, and

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Jesse Watters, the infamous Fox News producer who’s sometimes dispatched to ambush people who’ve said mean things about Bill O’Reilly, made the rounds of the

The AP has obtained a memo written by the non-Hamas wing of the Palestinian national movement: All hopes placed in the new U.S. administration and President

The Omerta Strategy for the defense budget that I outlined in today’s piece comes to an end Monday. According to Julian Barnes of The Los Angeles Times, that’s

Turns out, it depends on whom you ask. Following yesterday’s much-hyped White House meeting between President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders, two

Two House Democrats, including one from Colorado, are seeking to question a pair of investors about solar panel manufacturer Solyndra’s financial flameout in Northern California. U.S. Reps.

Just in time to throw another twist into the health reform debate, the Government Accountability Office reported today that Medicaid is paying to fill

Yesterday at the Heritage Foundation, U.K. Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox spoke about the state of the war in Afghanistan. He argued that effective

The Obama administration has cleared 75 of the remaining 223 Guantanamo prisoners for release as it attempts to move toward closing the detention camp by

While Gov. Rick Perry’s push for legislation banning sanctuary cities won him a cool reception from Texas Latino leaders last month, the bill’s failure has