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In an unusual move by a federal district court, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., today issued an order (PDF) holding the

Breaking news, from Zero Hedge: As we expected when we reported that the Delaware AG got into the foreclosure fray (Delaware not being a judicial state), it

If released, Department of Justice memos could make it difficult for Obama administration to avoid confronting whether Bush broke the law.

On Friday, I asked a Republican Hill staffer what had been happening with Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) high-profile effort to re-brand* the Republican Party since

Two bills pending before the Michigan House of Representatives that would diminish the unemployment benefits for tens of thousands of Michigan residents are drawing strong criticism from the National Employment Law Project, a group that advocates for the unemployed. The first bill, HB 4781, is sponsored by Rep

In the brief period since the release of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s House Negro tape, bloggers have gone crazy celebrating the U.S.’s free-of-charge good fortune.

As the heat gets turned up on the health care reform debate, anti-immigrant activists are using the issue to whip up fear and anger toward immigrants, portraying them as a costly and burdensome drain on any taxpayer-supported U.S. health care system.

The trouble facing Democrats as they continue to push for health care reform is that, in a country of roughly 300 million people, almost 260 million already

The post-election panic on the right isn’t limited to the Republican Party’s identity crisis. As our sister site Colorado Independent has discovered, the

Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki is giving powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr’s forces three days to surrender in Basra, as clashes between Maliki’s security forces

Take a bow, Dan Senor and Roman Martinez! Moqtada al-Sadr -- the radical cleric dubbed The Most Dangerous Man in Iraq by a Newsweek cover story in December

On the eve of the presidential nominating conventions starting next week, Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, has narrowed, if not eliminated, the lead that Sen. Barack Obama, the likely Democratic candidate, held in national polls just a month ago.

Adam Gadahn, the California metalhead (really!) who became al-Qaeda’s first American citizen recruit, has been apprehended in Pakistan. In 2006, the Bush

Tony Perry has a fascinating piece in the Los Angeles Times today about an inchoate plan by the Marine Corps to send as many as 15,000 Marines to Afghanistan

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A coalition of psychiatrists sent an open letter to Barack Obama yesterday urging him not to appoint John Brennan, the former head of the Terrorist Threat

Immigration is an important issue in the United States, but is it something the GOP nomination for president should hinge on? Is there a reason that as unauthorized immigration from Mexico to the U.S.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may be running for a Hero of Wall Street award. Over the last few months, he has opened up the Fed’s coffers

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty got an exclusive interview with Hamid Karzai after yesterday’s presidential debate. The whole thing’s fairly predictable --