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The McCain campaign has kicked into overdrive for its final full day of campaigning before Election Day. While Sen. John McCain maintained a leisurely

Over the weekend, yet another hapless prisoner stuck at Guantanamo Bay for the last six years was determined to have been wrongly detained, this time by a

In a new Federal Reserve policy statement, the Federal Open Market Committee said that the pace of recovery has slowed. Conditions have deteriorated,

Politico’s John Bresnahan has a great piece of reporting today about the hypocrisy of Republican leaders calling for the end of earmarks, not to mention the

Late yesterday, the House passed a war-funding bill. But the $80 billion bill actually includes only $37 billion in war funding; the rest is made up of

When the Latch School, an Arizona special education institution, asked Sen. John McCain in 2003 to help it secure a $288,000 grant from the Federal

The deluge continues. Word comes that in response to pending requests from the American Civil Liberties Union, another tranche of CIA documents about Bush-era

In more explicit terms than he had previously, President-elect Barack Obama today laid out the philosophy behind his cabinet selections and addressed the

The Minnesota Independent, our sister site, just put up an enlightening series of interviews with conservative Minneapolis residents protesting the Democrats’

As Ali Soufan prepares to testify publicly for the first time about the FBI’s role in the torture policies of the Bush administration, some aspects of his testimony are already clear -- others are less so.

I was (mostly) offline yesterday but saw people on Twitter freaking out over blog posts that compared the CIA to the Nazis because of interrogations. So Jane

What with all the death panel talk and senatorial waffling, it’s hard to keep track of the latest developments in the health care reform debate. So we’ll do the

Here’s something that Dennis Blair probably doesn’t want to read now that he’s vacated his job as director of national intelligence. The Atlantic’s Max Fisher

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), suffering from incurable brain cancer, has privately asked Massachusetts officials to alter state law to allow a temporary

President Obama announced today that he plans to nominate John Morton -- a longtime Justice Department official and current acting deputy assistant attorney

Two separate votes. Two high-profile legislative reforms, wrapped together, are on their way to the White House for a signature. The first installs sweeping

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, one of the Obama administration’s most influential officials shaping Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, will

Kenneth Feinberg will take over BP’s claims process for victims of the Gulf oil spill on Aug. 23. As that date fast approaches, Feinberg is rounding out his

In a speech this morning at Atlanta Technical College, Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said that the Federal Reserve will

For the past 82 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- in its reporting of national crime statistics -- has not recognized that men can be raped, that