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Since George W. Bush took office, commercial banks have more than doubled their annual federal lobbying budgets, to great effect. In addition to securing a

In an unusual move by a federal district court, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., today issued an order (PDF) holding the

Breaking news, from Zero Hedge: As we expected when we reported that the Delaware AG got into the foreclosure fray (Delaware not being a judicial state), it

If released, Department of Justice memos could make it difficult for Obama administration to avoid confronting whether Bush broke the law.

As the heat gets turned up on the health care reform debate, anti-immigrant activists are using the issue to whip up fear and anger toward immigrants, portraying them as a costly and burdensome drain on any taxpayer-supported U.S. health care system.

The trouble facing Democrats as they continue to push for health care reform is that, in a country of roughly 300 million people, almost 260 million already

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki is giving powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s forces three days to surrender in Basra, as clashes between Maliki’s security forces

Take a bow, Dan Senor and Roman Martinez! Moqtada al-Sadr -- the radical cleric dubbed The Most Dangerous Man in Iraq by a Newsweek cover story in December

On the eve of the presidential nominating conventions starting next week, Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, has narrowed, if not eliminated, the lead that Sen. Barack Obama, the likely Democratic candidate, held in national polls just a month ago.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may be running for a Hero of Wall Street award. Over the last few months, he has opened up the Fed’s coffers

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty got an exclusive interview with Hamid Karzai after yesterday’s presidential debate. The whole thing’s fairly predictable --

Nearly a month after the executives of the Big Three automakers arrived in Washington on corporate jets to ask Congress for a bailout, a group of auto workers made the same trip by carpool. Their mission was the same, but the blue-collar image they projected was strikingly different.

Do you love Politico? Sure, we all do. And one of the best ways to read the paper is to read TWI a few weeks earlier. For example, if you were reading TWI 10

Here’s Ali Soufan, from his written opening statement and his spoken summary, delivered from behind the wooden partition. One aspect of Ali Soufan’s

Sen. John McCain gave another statement to reporters earlier this morning about the escalating conflict in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In the

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), a longtime supporter of a single-payer health care system, has been doing much of the liberal grumbling today in the face of

This morning, Fannie Mae -- a government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages on the secondary market and that made $72 billion in losses last year --

Despite the stall-out in the recovery and the decline in median wages, Wall Street executives look set for record pay-outs this year. The Wall Street Journal

The other day I wondered what the reported ascendence of Jim Steinberg to deputy secretary of state meant for Richard Holbrooke’s job prospects. Reading about