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Both Eli Lake and Greg Miller report that President Obama personally asked Steve Kappes last year to remain the CIA’s deputy director. Kappes’ boss, Leon

In a stark departure from the current White House, the president-elect warns of hard choices ahead as U.S. seeks to pull back from financial disaster. After short-term spending to right the economy, Obama looks to long-term spending cuts.

Sen. Julianne Ortman of Chanhassen earned praise for the Log Cabin Republicans on Friday after she was the lone Republican to vote to table a bill that adds a constitutional ban on gay marriage to the 2012 ballot

Today, the Senate is debating the tax extenders’ package, also known as the jobs bill or H.R. 4213. The beleaguered legislation has been cut by more than $100

As of yesterday, banks need to ask customers whether they would like to be allowed to overdraw their checking accounts for a fee, usually $35. About 70 percent

More than 200,000 people gathered on the National Mall today to participate in March for America, a rally advocating comprehensive immigration

Would you like some irony with that baggie of medical marijuana? Well, like it or not, you’re getting some

When it rains, it pours, and when a reporter finds a good story, they don’t let go. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow seems to have found a good story in Colorado. This week, she ran her third segment on Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s efforts to stop county clerks from mailing ballots to inactive voters

A Senate aide says lawmakers are working on an agreement that could clear the way for an initial procedural vote on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request to declassify certain documents that he said will show the effectiveness of Bush administration interrogation

News out of the conference committee splitting the differences between the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform: The Consumer Financial

As While House leaders, Democrats and Republicans in Congress engaged in contentious debate over an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday, anti-abortion-rights

One more thing on the Post’s story about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) desired grand bargain on terrorism detentions -- Check out this paragraph: Attorney

The markup session for the landmark Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill is underway in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live webcast from C-SPAN). And

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Here’s the video of the day: Neil Cavuto of Fox News reacting to the Dow Jones index’s recovery by asking his first guest whether former President George W.

Defenders of the Keystone XL pipeline have argued that the project is important for creating up to 20,000 new jobs in a struggling economy, but TransCanada, which owns the pipeline, said late last week that the number of permanent jobs would only number in the hundreds.

U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina was one of three Democrats to vote Wednesday for the repeal of the federal health care law, The Patient Protection and

Sarah Palin, not to be deterred by the mixed reception New Hampshire voters gave her endorsement of GOP senate candidate Kelly Ayotte, is back on the campaign

President Obama’s team of advisers, initially touted for its wealth of experience and qualifications, continues to unravel as Nancy Killefer withdraws her