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Following up on Spencer’s post, Human Rights Watch isn’t the only voice expressing concerns that the Obama administration’s new Cuba travel policy doesn’t go

Eight years after Katherine Boo wrote “The Marriage Cure” for The New Yorker -- which explored the idea promulgated by the George W. Bush administration

Last year, the U.S. government bailed out auto giant GM at a cost of around $50 billion, gaining 61 percent of the company in the process and expecting around

According to the latest numbers from Florida’s new welfare drug testing requirements, the state is currently spending more money on drug testing welfare applicants than it is saving money by denying benefits to those applicants who fail the test. The New York Times reports : The law in Florida, where the average recipient receives $253 a month for less than five months, is more expansive.

Live from Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) backyard -- specifically the University of Louisville -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver a

Maybe blasts was the wrong verb for my old headline on the White House’s response to Israel’s expansion of settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem. The

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) just announced during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s televised executive session that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee

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One thing unlikely to change as the result of President Obama’s review of Afghanistan strategy is the administration’s perspectives on Pakistan. As the Senate

Gov. Rick Scott quietly signed a handful of bills Friday, including a scaled-back set of income tax cuts and a rulemaking bill that clears up some discrepancies in last year’s House Bill 1565, which requires legislative approval for certain new regulations

On a conference call with supporters of Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom coalition on Tuesday evening, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said she would reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, while agreeing with a caller who said allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military would “destroy the armed forces.” “I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ,” Bachmann said in her introductory remarks. “I gave my life to the Lord when I was 16 years of age.

Today’s hearing introduces us to a young SERE clinical psychologist named Jerald Ogrissig. A retired Air Force major, Ogrissig, who appears before the Senate

Look, Glenn Beck can book whoever he wants to talk about whatever he wants. And he will! But was Frank Gaffney the best guest to talk about the slightly loopy

When President Obama made unexpected comments about the long history of racial profiling by police in this country at his press conference last night, it was a

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. (Pic by jonworth, via Flickr) Sen

GOP presidential candidate U.S. Rep

The latest web video offering from the 2012 campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seeks not only to link Texas’ in-state tuition program for immigrations to Democrats, but to show that it was touted by Mexican officials.

This is getting ridiculous. No one seriously defends the military’s exclusion of gay servicemembers. But look what happens when Defense Secretary Robert Gates

While the U.S.

The jobs bill, which includes an extension to unemployment benefits among other provisions, could be passed if Democrats would be willing to pay for it with

Michigan’s largest business organization has announced support for the New International Trade Crossing — a new publicly-owned but privately-financed and built bridge that would connect Detroit and Windsor south of the Ambassador Bridge. The Detroit News reports that the Chamber endorsement gives a big boost for the coalition of business and labor groups that back the project and further isolates Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Maroun, who has spent millions campaigning against the project. [Gov.