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Republicans continue to pile on calls to hold hearings on 14th Amendment -- Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle said yesterday she thinks Congress should act

Protesters at a Wednesday Minnesotans for a Fair Economy rally outside Wells Fargo’s Minneapolis office donned huge puppet masks showing the faces of U.S.

Social issues might be taking a back seat to health care and the deficit in a number of national races, but not so in California’s Senate race between Sen.

Last night, the Senate, by unanimous consent, passed a bill approving $600 million in emergency funding to increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. After

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Over the past 18 months, anyone proposing any policy for extricating the United States from the Iraqi quagmire has been told by critics that the proposal

It’s not just the filing deadline for unemployment benefits that’s set to arrive at the end of this month. Doctors treating Medicare patients are also scheduled

Following up on President Obama’s Transparency Memoranda signed on his first day in office, the White House today issued two new documents pledging openness: An

Via Nathan Hodge at Danger Room, there are Russian reports that Kyrgyzstan is going to end American access to their Manas Air Base. If true, that’s huge: Manas

Denver Archbishop Chaput asked Notre Dame University Catholics this weekend to press for Church policy that would deny communion to U.S. Catholic politicians who support pro-choice or pro-gay rights positions. The speech comes in the wake of surveys that show most Catholics don’t agree with Chaput on the issues.

Last week, PolitiFact.com announced its Lie of the Year: Sarah Palin’s claim that the health care bill might create death panels that would kill elderly or

The race for Maryland governor is becoming increasingly focused on immigration as Republican candidate Robert Ehrlich, a former governor, criticized Gov. Martin

Senate Democratic leaders have amended their newly released health reform bill to include a contentious provision allowing some workers to receive cash vouchers

Lately I’ve been bashing Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, for his performance in a recent Senate hearing. So let me take this opportunity to

Sirajuddin Haqqani of the infamous Haqqani network -- which, among other aspects of bloody rampage, took New York Times reporter David Rohde hostage -- may have

Elizabeth Warren, the Treasury and White House adviser helping to set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, made her first trip yesterday to meet with

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, in a conference call with reporters today, boldly confronted the big issue on the minds of American voters: Sen. Barack

During last night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University, Sen. John McCain, as he often does on the trail, sang the praises of the stalled Colombian Free

The Department of Justice announced today that Roy Belfast Jr., aka Chuckie Taylor, son of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, has been sentenced to 97

For a one-stop compendium of how the prospects for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City for his role in 9/11 have deteriorated, ProPublica’s Dafna

The Heritage Foundation just wrapped up a panel discussion to that effect, called Where Does the Tea Party Go from Here? Panelists included Billie Tucker,