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Via Andrew Sullivan, Haaretz’s Aluf Benn reports on some preemptive Obama administration brushback to members of Congress who’d take an anti-peace process

Today, organizers for the Democratic National Convention announced the event’s official themes and a national interactive town hall, designed to create the

Early this morning, Internet group Anonymous, an online forum that has of late sought to position itself as a political force of hackers and whistleblowers,

As part of the required National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process, officials from the U.S. Air Force and Clovis’s Cannon Air Force Base held another public hearing last night in Las Vegas about its plans for low-altitude tactical navigation (LATN) training flights over southeast Colorado and eastern New Mexico.

T. Boone Pickens, today: They’re opening them (oil fields) up to other companies all over the world ... We’re entitled to it, Pickens said of Iraq’s oil.

I’ve noticed for weeks that Sarah Palin’s memoir Going Rogue had been heavily discounted at Amazon.com, a result of a price war between the online retailer

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For months now, the media covering the McCain campaign have been clamoring for potential first lady Cindy McCain’s tax returns. Well, the campaign that is so

In keeping with the McCain campaign’s announced strategy of smearing Sen. Barack Obama, here’s an ad from the McCain team portraying Obama as slandering the

In a break with tradition at the Texas Department of Transportation, but in keeping with the larger tradition around the state, a former aide to Gov. Rick Perry

We wrote here recently about the oddity of congressional Republicans blasting the thought of creating a public plan while at the same time lauding the virtues

In case you were wondering, as I was, what exactly President-elect Barack Obama intends to talk about during the press conference the transition team scheduled

Later this morning, President Obama and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan are expected to announce a set of criteria for states to opt out of

Officials released new figures yesterday detailing just how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill -- about twelve times more than

Tyler Cowen writes: Many smart people say we should. It seems increasingly clear that we must. For how long can the government prop them up? Are we never

In case you missed it: Ezra Klein makes a case today for increasing immigration as a way to attract highly skilled workers, lower prices and raise wages. He

Speaking in the Rose Garden this afternoon, President Obama asked Congressional Republicans to stop blocking measures to aid the economic recovery and lower the

A nonpartisan watchdog group is blowing the whistle on U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton and others in Congress who consistently advocate for tax breaks, subsidies and other giveaways to oil and gas companies.

Of the 13 sixth-grade girls asked to explain why they want to take part in an Alexandria, Virginia-based after-school program called SOHO, Katherine Ivette

Today’s poor jobs report cements the fact that the recovery has stalled out and American workers are facing years, if not a decade, of sluggish wage growth and

Just as it did with the Senate’s defense authorization bill, the White House released a statement warning the House Appropriations Committee against placing any