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Members of the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan agriculture appropriations bill Tuesday as part of a larger appropriations process that will soon be merged with an earlier offering by the U.S. House.

Because The New York Times is reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the Obama administration’s indispensable interlocutor with Afghan

Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (Bullcrap.), suggests the

Immigration reform is impossible without some Republican support, but Democrats have an incentive to keep the issue in play anyway. Senate Majority Leader Harry

In his third GOP presidential debate Gov. Rick Perry had a way of fumbling and tripping over words. But it was a familiar issue, and perhaps the most articulate

A high-minded campaign won’t defeat GOP tactics.

People who live with HIV/AIDS and their supporters marked HIV Vaccine Awareness Day yesterday, with their hopes put in the research to find a vaccine to prevent HIV infection. # The Aids Institute highlights on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day the progress that has been made in vaccine research and development, but for now the search continues. # The institute points out that minorities are disproportionally impacted.

It really helps to have metrics when stuff like this happens. Yesterday The Wall Street Journal published a story on all of the ways in which Gen. Stanley

The Senate is back to amending Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal today. Here is a list of pending amendments that might come up

The Michigan Messenger reports on a state legislature hearing about a proposal to relocate Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Standish, Mich., maximum-security

The New York Daily News was embedded with Meghan McCain, who will soon release a book about life as a Republican, at the White House Correspondents Dinner,

Zachary Roth has a short write-up on Michael Zak, the amateur historian who wrote the Heroes section of the new GOP.com, which focuses to a confusing degree

And here’s Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the Afghanistan war, testifying for the first time since his June congressional hearings. He praised an

We finally had a sense they were listening, one advocate says of the White House shift in tone.

Ben Smith unearths a classic 11th-hour attack from Republicans against then-Democratic nominee for Congress Parker Griffith.

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims -- or, as Spencer puts it, simply lying -- on the

GUANTANAMO BAY -- The military commission for Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen held here since 2002 and charged with killing a U.S. soldier, doesn’t get

“They flew all the way here just to basically say, ‘We’re going back on our word,’” said an attorney briefed on the Tuesday meeting. “The whole entire thing is kind of a puppet show.”

The speed of this campaign, and the slow reaction of Democrats who considered the seat safe until one week ago, have let the Republican candidate blur the details.

Republicans insist voter fraud is rampant. To combat it, they are challenging laws in states that make it easier to vote. But some legal scholars and voting experts worry that this broad-based attack could lead to serious and continuing challenges to the legitimacy of the next president.

This isn’t going to please Democrats who, privately, describe Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s strategy in Massachusetts as running out the clock.