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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that an Interior Department task force has delivered to him a report that includes 59 recommendations for changes

My story about Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs turning on the more extreme members of the right-wing anti-terrorism blogosphere is prompting

A group of liberal House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would cap credit card rates at 18 percent. This should not to be confused with the push

The vote was 54 to 45 to set the bill aside, with seven Democrats (all men) voting to keep the bill alive, and two Republicans (both women) voting to table the

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced today he plans to bring the DREAM Act to the floor again today so it will be poised and ready to be called as a standalone

NEW YORK -- A new survey of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and CBS found that the McCain campaign’s recent negativity and personal attacks on

Michael Calderone has the story -- next month I’ll be taking my reporting from TWI to The Washington Post. I want to take a moment to point out that the sort of

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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

They told my husband, ’You’ve got a job to do and you’re going to do it,’ said the wife of one Massey miner, referring to funerals he’s missed for friends who died in the blast.

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I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities,” President Obama said this winter.

One of the biggest fears surrounding contentious new breast-cancer screening guidelines, which were unveiled last month by the U.S. Preventive Services Task

From The Minnesota Independent: Allen Quist, a Republican who is seeking to defeat Rep. Tim Walz in southern Minnesota’s First Congressional District, told

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released Tuesday its annual report on education trends in the world’s wealthiest countries.

Last year the Army released its groundbreaking field manual on stability operations, FM 3-07, a key driver in getting the service to prepare itself for a

I have to admit: I didn’t think it would take less than a full working day for Taliban spokesmen to deny reports that Mullah Omar was willing to negotiate an

American physicists awoke from the New Year’s holidays to find that Congress had filched their stockings. Under pressure from Bush to make cross-the-board

Now it’s really in President Obama’s court: This afternoon, the Supreme Court, as predicted, dismissed the appeal of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the last U.S.

Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) first ad -- which drew the attention of everyone but Martha Coakley’s sleepy campaign staff -- started with President John F.

Obama administration officials have been pushing cautious optimism lately, while touting any glimmers of hope for the economy. But some new numbers out today