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The American Jewish pro-peace pro-Israel pro-Palestinian organization urges the Nobel Laureate president to use his enhanced prestige to push forward with an

In the neighborhoods hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis, speculators and flippers are swooping in to buy up the cheap properties and then letting them fall into disarray. Housing advocates may have found a legal opening to stop the death spiral.

“This bill represents a textbook example of how not to deal with the economic challenges that our country faces, said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) just announced his candidacy to replace outgoing Sen. Chris Dodd (D) -- and already, a new poll by Public

Stewart Rhodes, head of the libertarian-constitutionalist rights group Oath Keepers , told Slate reporter Dave Weigel last week that imprisoned U.S.

It’s no mystery that states have struggled through the economic downturn, as revenues have dropped with rising unemployment and falling consumer spending, while

Taegan Goddard reports that a new poll will show Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) deep in the hole against any potential Democratic candidate. One difference between

Serves me right for not reading my White House briefing transcript until this morning, but here’s Robert Gibbs yesterday talking about what looked on Friday to

During today’s press gaggle, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he made a mistake by calling the just-sworn-in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the elected

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Legal scholars say that detentions at Gitmo are an example of President Bush making his power consolidation permanent.

I mentioned this in my 11:37 post this morning, and I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention, so here goes again. Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson

Two Democratic senators who are apparently unafraid of jailing Guantanamo detainees in civilian prisons in their states: Dianne Feinstein of California and Carl

In its ongoing fundraising campaign targeting four Republican New York state senators who jumped party lines to vote in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage

Bush administration officials have been under fire for effectively forcing a merger last December between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch without informing

Pollsters are revising their estimates up for the number of seats that Democrats will lose in the House, but in the Senate Dems look like they’re sitting

Most Democrats and even many Republicans agree that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) lucked out in a major way when he drew tea party candidate Sharron Angle as his GOP

BP expects to have the well completely sealed by this weekend. The company announced the end of the Vessels of Opportunity program, in which local boaters

The DCCC revealed its hand a few weeks ago. Now it’s the NRCC’s turn, reserving $22 million in ad time in 40 districts around the country and drawing up a

Carl Weimer -- executive director of The Pipeline Safety Trust, a nonprofit group that advocates for fuel transportation safety -- sends TWI a list of his