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President Obama and his family will travel to Florida on Saturday to spend some time at Panama City Beach. The vacation comes as tourism in the Gulf is down

Saddam Hussein henchman Tariq Aziz has been convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity. His sentence is ... fifteen years in prison. Daphne, perhaps

Tax cuts are generally less stimulative than spending measures, but among tax cuts, a holiday or slashing of the payroll tax is one of the best options, the

The British newspaper the Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that the BBC has adopted new editorial guidelines that expressly call for its reporters to be

The senators who voted last fall to approve the federal bailout of Wall Street hold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in the very banks that Washington has rescued in the nine months since.

The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the U.S. and Russia expires on Saturday. U.S. and Russian negotiators have been working on a successor treaty to

The case of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen arrested in New York and sent to Syria to be interrogated under torture, will be re-heard today by the Second

The UpTake are in New York City providing a livestream of the Wall Street occupation. The media outlet is accepting donations to support its coverage here . Minnesotans are planning a solidarity occupation in downtown Minneapolis Friday, Nov. 7.

Earlier this year, the Senate Armed Services Committee held blockbuster hearings with key figures in the creation of the Bush administration’s torture policies.

President Obama’s speech changed a debate over entitlement programs to streamlining an inefficient health care system at the route of the problem.

<p>We’re still in Beta mode here at The Washington Independent -- there are a lot of kinks in our system yet to be ironed out. But it seemed time to post

Political strategist and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger has challenged Marcus Bachmann , husband of U.S.

A pair of interesting cloture vote post-mortems from the conservative senator, whose hold on Bernanke started the too-small movement to stop him.

As lawmakers start to shift their attention to job creation, a Brandeis University study finds that four in 10 families don’t have enough savings or assets on

In and of itself, it’s not really surprising that Dick Cheney should defend the torture and indefinite detention -- which, the founding fathers understood, was

The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) signed by the U.S. and Iraqi governments demands the departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraqi towns and cities by July

This is from a U.S. District court filing from Dick Cheney’s office: ’’The vice president alone may determine what constitutes vice presidential records or

The 47-nation/three international-governance-body Washington Nuclear Security Summit has concluded. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) just yawns: The summit’s purported