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From a White House press release: Vice President Biden will travel to Brussels, Belgium next week to meet with the North Atlantic Council, the principal forum

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team confirmed today that former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) has signed on as an adviser to assist with the new

In the wake of the West Virginia disaster, calls for additional safety measures appear to be prophetic.

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 16, 2009. Earlier this week, the

The White House responds to the Joe Sestak non-scandal, confirming that it worked to dissuade the Pennsylvania congressman from challenging Sen. Arlen Specter

As predicted/foretold, Defense Secretary Bob Gates had quite a lot to say during the rollout of his budget request about the concept of full spectrum

Good for Gen. Ray Odierno: Gen. Ray Odierno, the top commander in Iraq, recently issued a directive asking his subordinate commanders to reduce the use of

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) has proposed an amendment to small business legislation that would suspend U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas regulations for two years

Here’s an idea so diabolically perfect in its simplicity only Noah Shachtman at Danger Room was able to report it. Sure, Blackwater might be kicked out of Iraq.

Our recent post on a new poll indicating that more that 52 percent of the country is opposed to allowing the open carry of loaded guns in public has left some

<p>The American Family Association is giving us <a id="pep1" href="http://www.afa.net/pb2008b/index.html" title="a rare

The Christian Science Monitor’s Ben Quinn sheds some light on the legality of Israel’s recent and deadly attack on an aid flotilla making its way to Gaza. Quinn

ANCHORAGE -- Wow, here’s a great catch over at TPMmuckraker. It turns out that Steven Silver, the lobbyist Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hired to hustle federal

First appeared September 25, 2008 Forty years ago, in September 1968, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive — which changed mainstream

All four Public Regulation Commissioners signed a statement urging Commissioner Jerome Block, Jr., to resign his seat Tuesday; Block was not present at the proceedings. “Given the allegations and recent evidence that has surfaced, we encourage and urge Commissioner Block to immediately resign his position as soon as possible,” reads the statement.

On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. We ought

It’s not a whip count or anything like that, but as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to push for Senate ratification of the New START nuclear

Taking a quick cue from Massachusetts, the Obama administration is putting on its populist hat this week to take on the nation’s largest financial institutions

That’s the warning coming from the Australian government. In a report released Wednesday, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority found that the chances of

On the Fence Likely Supporters Likely Opponents 17 38 45 Likely Opponents Senator Stance on Public Option Stance