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Despite Hasan’s reported contacts with an al-Qaeda-connected cleric in Yemen, the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and FBI will handle the probe.

Unhappy with all the recent tweaks to the Senate’s health care reform legislation, three top Republicans are asking the Congressional Budget Office to re-score

On a conference call just now, senior administration officials provided some details about their plan for detaining Guantanamo detainees at Illinois’ Thomson

That’s a quote about housing Guantanamo detainees in the Thomson Correctional Center, courtesy of a statement from Tom Parker of Amnesty International. Judging

From Reuters: New Hampshire’s Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would legalize same-sex marriage after an amendment was added that prohibits polygamy and

The strange case of New Black Panther Party oddballs showing their strength at a heavily African-American polling place last year is still churning, with issues

Although an exact date is not yet known, Nevada Republicans voted over the weekend to move their first-in-the-west caucuses to a Saturday in January that follows New Hampshire’s yet-to-be-named primary date. The move is in response to Florida’s rogue change to Jan

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is the latest confirmed speaker at next month’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., the Family Research Council, which is

It ain’t over yet -- at least officially. This morning, the Business Cycle Dating Committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research -- a nonprofit

Here’s the cover of Jonathan Alter’s book about FDR’s first 100 days, The Defining Moment -- reportedly, a big hit with Obama staff during the

Chris Cilllizza was so impressed by the performance of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on NBC’s Meet the Press that he asks whether the senator might be a new

A bill introduced last month by Sen. Amy Klobuchar could make it a felony criminal act to stream copyrighted “performances” online without permission

While much of the Republican establishment bloviates about the injustice of President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel for his chief of

Today, at 2 p.m., the Senate will vote on Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) motion to invoke cloture on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill.

The Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options ( Hispanic CREO ) held a forum Friday in Fort Lauderdale to discuss how school choice can help boost success for Hispanic students. Both Michelle Rhee — an informal education adviser to Gov.

While the big religious right event in Washington, D.C., this weekend was Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Conference, which drew a half-dozen presidential

Via Ben Smith, we find Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney pulling out his hair and rending his garments about President Obama’s Cairo speech.

Aaron just hit this from the angle of climate change. I found Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) op-ed interesting because, as recently as March, he was attacking the

Tonight’s Afghanistan strategy rollout comes at a tense moment for congressional Democrats. President Obama will announce an escalation of U.S. forces, an