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As the ideologically charged debate revs up over the qualifications of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s newly announced pick to replace David

Later today, President Obama is scheduled to give a speech at Camp Lejeune, N.C., announcing his troop drawdown plan. Basically, it’s a fixed timetable for

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates allowed the Obama administration to immediately appeal the cases of three detainees at the Bagram prison in

You don’t know what former enemy combatant Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri looks like. If you read Daphne’s stuff like you should, you know that President Obama

“We should have learned from Hurricane Betsy with Agriculture Street and we didn’t,” says Darryl Malek-Wiley, a field organizer for the Sierra Club. “We should have learned from Katrina and we didn’t. Now we’re doing it again with the Gulf oil spill.”

U.S. Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) says the draft legislation being floated by California Rep.

PITTSBURGH - At a RightOnline panel on Blogging 101, PoliticsDaily writer Matt Lewis showed a video of a health care meeting held by Rep. Lloyd Doggett

Two weeks ago, the Obama administration raised fuel efficiency standards by an average of two miles per gallon -- a modest change that disappointed some

Republicans have been trumpeting polls indicating that most Americans oppose the Democrats’ proposals to reform the country’s dysfunctional health care system.

Via Kevin Drum, the Toronto Star reports that Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen captured in 2002 by U.S. officials and sent to Syria for a year’s worth of torture,

From the White House press secretary... As the people of Haiti observe a national day of mourning to remember those lost in the catastrophic earthquake one

So the Justice Department got most of what it wanted here. Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled this morning that the CIA will have until August 24 to release a

Even as some Republican leaders are blasting the co-op insurance model as the first step toward socialized medicine, others appear ready to embrace the strategy

KABUL – A friend of mine who’s been to Afghanistan warned me several times against flying on Ariana, the national airline. Apparently she’s traveled with a

In talking about kids with disabilities, the Alaska governor uses words and phrases generally associated with the anti-abortion movement, effectively reminding anti-abortion voters that she shares and supports their view.

So says The Associated Press, reporting this afternoon that the absence of an estimated cost from the Congressional Budget Office means that the Senate Finance

During a three-day trip through the Western Slope this week, U.S. Sen