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Don’t worry America, Sweden is with you in Afghanistan. The surge is on. Sweden wants to send more troops to Afghanistan after an assessment by the Armed

San Francisco won’t be opting out of Secure Communities, officials said today after a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The county leadership

The Obama administration is expected to appoint Alan Bersin, a former U.S. Attorney in San Diego, to be its new border czar. The position will focus on

While students head back to class all around Texas, today marks the first day of school for a unique class of seminary students, all serving lengthy or life

PART TWO In one black-majority, affluent county outside Washington, foreclosures outpace the rest of the region. A long history of mistrust helps explain the problem.

Among the chief concerns surrounding the Bush administration’s $700-billion Wall Street rescue plan has been the startling absence of oversight that

The Wall Street Journal reports today that BP and the federal government are nearing the end of talks on a plan to ensure that the embattled oil company can

South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly announced Monday that his state will hold its first-in-the-south primary on Jan. 21, 2012. The date is 10 days before the rogue Florida primary on Jan.

More than 30 governors -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- supported the state aid bill, granting $26.1 billion in fiscal relief to local governments facing

In what could end up being the closest Senate race in U.S. history, Al Franken now claims a four-vote lead over incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman in the

Senate leaders are trying to hotline a bill that would expedite previously passed credit card reforms to prevent companies from hiking rates and fees before

My colleague Mike Lillis speculates that the retiring Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) could become a major advocate for the coal industry and a strong opponent of

Well, if Sen. Barack Obama is supposed to be palling around with terrorists, then why not go there? Murray Waas reports for the Huffington Post that the

We were talking Monday about the unexpected effects of the foreclosure crisis, like skateboarders in California taking advantage of empty swimming pools behind

The Interior Department announced today that it will temporarily clamp down on the use of categorical exclusions, a type of environmental waiver, for offshore

The GOP’s candidate in the Massachusetts special election raised more than one million dollars -- double the goal -- in a 24-hour moneybomb on the Ron Paul

A bill that aims to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating farm dust addresses an imaginary problem and could choke critical powers from the Clean Air Act, according to opponents. After the House this week passed the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act , H.R

If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen emergency and further stressing a force that has seen repeated combat deployments since 2002.

Despite the appalling argumentative tactic of implying that Muslim American soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen are future Nidal Hasans, the Army’s chief of

This is a bit flashbacky, but in June 2002, John Yoo, then the deputy chief of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, considered the question of what

Tom Friedman may want to think harder about this: Last week, five men from northern Virginia were arrested in Pakistan, where they went, they told Pakistani

Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced last week a record number of arrests of gang-affiliated illegal immigrants in Utah, netting 158 people alleged to