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President Obama might have grabbed a corned beef sandwich with Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) last week in South Beach, but that hasn’t stopped the whisper

The prime minister of the Caribbean vacation nation Antigua & Barbuda (official name!) has renamed his country’s highest mountain Mount Obama. Seriously. W.

After spending untold billions of dollars securing the nation’s airlines from ill-intentioned passengers, it seems there’s a new menace in the nation’s skies. A

As Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey busily works to bury the abuses of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court may be getting ready to hand President George W.

Politico reports that a coalition of advocacy organizations, including the National Black Police Association, has sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama

Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reports from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain. Here she covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech today in Toledo, Ohio.

This is not a tea party hangover, said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony list. It is every piece of the conservative base--the Club for Growth, social conservatives, right to work, pro-lifers, everyone--coming together.

When the health care reform bill passed the House in November, I reported that anti-abortion rights groups thought they’d pulled a number on Democrats by

For many in public-policy organizations, academia and the media, the current mortgage and credit crisis suggests the impending collapse of the American

In a highly unusual case, a jury will decide — for the time being, at least — whether anti-Muslim Florida Pastor Terry Jones will be allowed to hold a protest outside the Islamic Center of America mosque in Dearborn on Friday evening. State Judge Mark Somers gave Jones the option of paying a $100,000 “peace bond” or face a jury to decide whether he can hold the protest without paying the bond.

This was an extremely bad day for the Obama administration. Right after Obama’s Meet The Press declaration that he would not allow strategy to be driven by

Asked by Ellen Tauscher, a California Democrat, what he would say to a new president who asked for a withdrawal plan within 60 days of taking office, Petraeus

Refugees International, a humanitarian non-governmental organization recently headed by former Pentagon official Kenneth Bacon, is out this morning with a new

The execution of Manuel Valle is set for Aug. 2, under the first death warrant signed by Gov

The small government PAC, which has been blasting Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) for months over his compromises with Democrats, is officially going in for his

It wasn’t long ago that the State Dept. was basically internet-illiterate. Now Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Colleen Graffy is