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The North Korean regime will indict two American journalists from Current TV who had been reporting on North Korean refugees in China. After holding them for

This is one weird comment on President Obama’s proposed repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell from House GOP leader John Boehner (R-Ohio): Boehner predicted that

Wasting no time, the House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to mark up its credit card reform bill next Wednesday, according to a Democratic aide.

Apropos of my story today on municipalities that want to opt out of Secure Communities, the county manager for Arlington, Va., sent a letter to Immigration and

Today, Immigration Impact, the blog of the Immigration Policy Center, reported on a shift in tactics in the immigration debate: A growing number of Republican

J. Patrick Coolican profiles Jon Scott Ashjian, the wealthy businessman who’s filed as the Tea Party’s candidate against Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). He doesn’t

One report. Two very different interpretations. The Congressional Budget Office stirred yet another hornet’s nest Monday when it released its latest analysis

The Supreme Court ruled today that the federal government can hold some sex offenders indefinitely. Voters return to the Democratic fold, albeit narrowly, in

NORFOLK, Virg. -- Sen. Barack Obama tours another swing state school on Wednesday, pushing a retooled education plan that promises more of

The health care lobby is hiring former government officials and aides to join the fight. Fred Hiatt of The Washington Post criticizes Obama’s spend first,

The best way to flatter Bill Clinton? Faint. Rich Iott is insulted that Eric Cantor disliked his Nazi reenactments. Tuesday is the worst day of the

Two days after President Obama criticized the industry for impeding reform, Kathleen Sebelius told a conference of insurers it was time for a new strategy.

PG&E, the owner of a California natural gas pipeline that exploded in September, killing eight people, released a plan yesterday to upgrade its pipeline

Well, we knew that SEC employees weren’t policing the Lehman Brothers or sharing information on its collapse with the Fed and they weren’t getting Goldman to

On the crucial question of where Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried and in what forum -- where nuance will be heavily scrutinized -- Eric Holder held out

The hell that Ken Wainstein endures is a torment of bipolar disorder. The life-affirming rush of mania: We and our foreign partners have disrupted a number

The Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe has a good story about a concerted push by Gen. William Caldwell and Interior Minister Hanif Atmar, the two highest-level

People.com reports that Bristol Palin, daughter of former GOP vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, gave birth over the weekend. Bristol

Alan Bersin, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was asked a good question during a talk this afternoon hosted by the Migration Policy

Three immigrants in Georgia filed what some experts said could be the first legal challenge to the 287 (g) program, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Mark Leon Goldberg reports that John Bolton, the Bush administration’s former ambassador to the United Nations, has a new book out. It’s called ConUNdrum -- get

After Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s address to AIPAC, I caught up with two representatives of J Street, the younger and more progressive

Newsweek’s Arian Campo-Flores has an interesting piece today about how political parties and observers should interpret the success of Latino Republican

Sarah Palin says Democrats live on a unicorn ranch in fantasy land. Carl Paladino loves giving hugs. It’s the one-year anniversary of Balloon