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Ah, one for old times’ sake: We had the training camps of Afghanistan, and dictators like Saddam Hussein with known ties to Mideast terrorists. Sigh. He wants

Last week, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law that criminalizes “transmitting or displaying” any image that under a “reasonable

One of your two Afghanistan must-reads today is this amazing Yochi Dreazen/Peter Spiegel piece reporting Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s view of the war he’s

Since the deadly mining blast in West Virginia last month, Massey Energy has insisted that its safety record sets the industry standard. But at least one

CNN reports that Osama bin Laden’s latest audiotape is about Gaza: The message is an invitation from bin Laden to take part in jihad to stop the aggression

The College and Young Democrats of Iowa are striking back specifically against U.S. Rep.

Complaints surrounding the way U.S. Rep.

“The capacity to find a facility is not tied to school performance,” says one New Orleans school principal. “I understand that, but I really wish there was a clearer path.”

There is a new political animal in America’s age-old immigration debate: the black bear. A new study says border fences are disrupting the migration of black bears. A recently published study (pdf) to be disseminated to the U.S.

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) The Obama administration has approved BP’s first plan to drill for oil in the gulf since last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, which left 11 dead and damaged the gulf ecosystem and the economies of the states that border it.

A coalition of environmentalists and labor unions is launching today a cross-country bus tour to pressure lawmakers to pass comprehensive climate and energy

There could be a standoff between the U.S. House and Senate during the next vote on the government’s funding plan for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 when it

Following up on Spencer’s earlier post about President Obama’s meeting today with numerous members of his national security team, the White House released this

Congress didn’t just agree to keep the government’s lights on through the rest of the fiscal year. It is also ensuring it has the option of doing so with energy-sucking incandescent 100-watt bulbs

As an addendum to Suemedha’s post, I’ll fill you in on the League of Conservation Voters’ assessment of Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain on environmental

As the conference committee reconciles the House and Senate versions of the financial regulatory reform bills, Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D-Ill.) amendment

<p>Iraq&rsquo;s national security adviser, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, has an op-ed in The Washington Post <a