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James Blunt might have prevented World War III. Facebook kills Gmail (maybe) with a new email service. John McCain finds a new reason to oppose repealing

Not even rainy weather could stop Gov. Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) from enjoying an hour-long ceremony that concluded with the signing of H.202, a law that creates a

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The Senate today voted to confirm Thomas E. Perez to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. The

When I talked to Andrew Breitbart for today’s story on the British press, the man behind Big Hollywood talked at length at how, in his view, political liberals

The reconciliation fix addresses issues ranging from funding mechanisms to Medicaid rates.

I don’t have the actual document yet, but here’s the White House’s just-released summary of the executive order on interrogations. Executive Order revokes

The Treasury Department’s report on the progress -- or lack of it -- among servicers doing loan modifications makes it seem like the Obama administration is

The news on Friday that Blackwater Worldwide (now known as Xe Services) participated in clandestine CIA operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that included

Ah, Alberto Gonzales. After the then-Attorney General presented a slippery account to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2007 of, among other subjects, the

Nathan Hodge, in Afghanistan for Danger Room, reported last week that U.S. officials in Kabul don’t like to refer to the planned near-doubling of civilian

The Arkansas governor-cum-TV host’s poem Fancy Nancy gets at how rote the Republican calls for the Speaker of the House to step down are becoming. Huckabee

So hinted Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who told a crowd gathered this week for an annual meeting of the American Hospital Association that the House might

On his last day as head of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, who has historically had a good relationship with the city’s LGBT community, is giving one final token

Two weeks after moving next door to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, Stanton Healthcare, an anti-abortion center for women with unexpected

This one is barometrically significant more than anything else. Marc Lynch has a good rundown of an admittedly obscure tempest: a frequently mistaken

During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Andrea Merkel on Tuesday, President Obama suggested that he would like to explore with Congressional leaders the possibility of extending unemployment benefits again. Some of the steps that we took during the lame duck session, the payroll tax, the extension of unemployment insurance, the investment in — or the tax breaks for business investment in plants and equipment — all those things have helped. And one of the things that I’m going to be interested in exploring with the members of both parties in Congress is how do we continue some of these policies to make sure that we get this recovery up and running in a robust way.

Internet junkies and wonks alike may have jumped the gun in looking forward to the new online transparency hyped by House members.

BP CEO Tony Hayward will receive $930,000 when he steps aside as the head of the company, the BBC reported today. According to the BBC: BP chief executive

An interesting scoop from NRO’s Stephen Spruiell, who reports that the movement to repeal health care reform through federal lawsuits began with GOP Sens. Jim