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The White House had any number of reasons to demand that General Services Administration Administrator Lurita Doan resign, which she did yesterday evening. Top

Aaron Blake has some background on the retirement of Rep. Henry Brown (R-S.C.), the 75-year-old conservative who nearly lost in a 2008 upset, that paints a

Add insult to the self-inflicted injury of Sens. McCain, Lieberman and Graham, who yesterday urged President Obama not to repatriate Yemeni detainees at

President Obama: As we make these decisions, bear in mind the following fact: nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal “supermax” prisons, which

Last week, according to CNN, the McCain campaign quietly fired its senior foreign-policy adviser, the neoconservative d-lister Randy Scheunemann, in a move that

An NPR report by Jackie Northam this morning on 101 Yemenis held at Guantanamo Bay highlighted a major part of the Gitmo dilemma facing the next administration

Via Kevin Drum, Nathaniel Popper at the Los Angeles Times reports that the number and earnings of millionaires have bounced back strongly, though real wages, on

<p>A prominent member of the House Judiciary Committee called a senior Justice Department official a liar in an exclusive interview with The Washington

In recent years, when the president of the United States appears on Arab satellite TV, it’s because something bad has happened and an apology is warranted.

From the conservative Committee for Justice, a key player in judicial nomination fights, comes this reaction to the nominations of one Hispanic and one

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint was the lone non-adulterous Republican who voted against confirming Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. He’s posted his

Reps. Chip Cravaack, Michele Bachmann and John Kline lent their names to a brief filed with the U.S.

Ed Kilgore’s analysis of the reignited strategists-vs-Sarah Palin slow-news-week imbroglio is on the mark: This base of support for Palin -- maybe not that

A relatively obscure document released by the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday bodes particularly ill for the chances of any form of meaningful campaign

If European politicians put restraints on Goldman, they’ll be punishing themselves, too.

Traders on the Iowa Electronic Markets seem convinced Republicans will retain control of the U.S. House in 2012 and gain control of the U.S. Senate

The New York Times ran a front-page story on Sunday that tackles a thorny scientific and political issue: whether individual extreme weather events are evidence

Less than a week now remains until the beginning of Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings -- the Senate Judiciary Committee announced today that

ROANOKE, Va. -- Colin Powell is back. The most respected Republican foreign policy voice in America will speak on Meet The Press Sunday, sparking rumors

Just-released remarks from the Rose Garden on the Senate’s decision to strip funding for the F-22 fighter jet: I want to say a few words about a very important

Word from my ever-alert colleague Mike Lillis: Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just announced a classified briefing on Afghanistan to be held in the Capitol Visitors’