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President-elect Barack Obama’s top appointments shouldn’t be ignored, but here are crucial sub-cabinet jobs critical to the success of his foreign-policy agenda.

One of the goals of the unanimous Republican no vote on the stimulus package Wednesday was producing news analyses like this one, from The New York

Details to come, but the Senate just confirmed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next secretary of state by a 94-2 vote. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) put a hold on her

He should, anyway. The conspiracy-minded attorney responds to the magazine’s measured denunciation of the birther movement with a 3,700-word rant about how

The Southern and Middle Federal Judicial Districts of Florida were among the top 10 districts in the nation in the number of criminal immigration prosecutions in the first six months of fiscal year 2011. # New data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University shows that criminal prosecution for illegal reentry was the most commonly recorded lead charge brought by federal prosecutors — accounting for nearly half of all criminal immigration prosecutions filed

The only way to guarantee help for those facing disclosure is to supplement the Wall Street bailout.

Mother Jones has an interesting article in its latest issue about the Juan Doe problem: What do U.S. officials do with the dead bodies of migrants they find

Success equals leadership plus strategy plus resources said retired Lt. Gen. David Barno about Afghanistan. Although he doesn’t say it himself, he had the

What happens if you’re chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and your negotiations with the panel’s senior Republican over finance reform break down? If

In lieu of another War on Christmas panic, it seems that the conservative culture war of December 2009 will be over James Cameron’s much-hyped,

Republican Rep. John Kline is a sponsor of a resolution in the U.S.

Remember the PreserveRaptorJobs Website? The one portraying the F-22 Raptor fighter jet as an economic engine; and one that seeks to mobilize people to write in

Peter Schiff, the libertarian economist and investor who’s launched a dark-horse bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.),

Haaretz reports on comments the undersecretary of defense for policy, Michele Flournoy, made in Singapore about Iran: The U.S. has ruled out a military strike

What is incorporation? Among the many legal terms mentioned over the last four days of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, the

Don’t expect to see Harry Reid break up immigration reform into small pieces -- at least not if one of those pieces is an expansion of the E-Verify program.

“The massage therapist’s first call on finding a lifeless Heath Ledger wasn’t to 911. Nor was her second. Nor her third, police said. A day before a Friday

Earlier this afternoon, I speculated on what the concessions to industry in the Senate climate bill would mean for environmental groups’ support. Is this