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Music fan and CIA Director Mike Hayden released this statement to the agency in the wake of President Obama’s interrogations/detentions

In a groundbreaking ruling today that directly contradicts the Bush and Obama administration’s insistence that detainees held by the U.S. government at the

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After President Obama outlined an ambitiously reasonable cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon emissions in his budget proposal last week, the White House

Adversaries in politics, they come together to accept the election. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai cheered the successful conduct of the elections. His main

The administration is taking a bifurcated approach toward resuscitating the American auto industry, simultaneously allocating $5 billion to the auto parts

As TWI’s lightning-fast national security reporter Spencer Ackerman just wrote, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence just formally announced what we’ve

The Bush administration called its warrantless surveillance efforts very, very important to protect the national security of this country, in the words of

Citizens United, a conservative political group based in Washington, D.C., is making independent expenditures in Senate District 18 just days before a Nov. 8 special election to decide the balance of power in the Iowa Senate.

The New York Times reports: The concern with the method BP chose, the document said, was that if the cement around the casing pipe did not seal properly, gases

The first state communities are beginning to opt out of Secure Communities, a fingerprint-sharing program between local police and federal immigration

The former governor of Pennsylvania and former Secretary of Homeland Security appeared on C-SPAN this morning and called a 2012 run for president unlikely,

We are all Palins now. That’s a major thrust of the Republican effort to rescue their beleaguered vice presidential nominee, Gov. Sarah Palin. She is one of

Two men, a Democrat and a Republican, were urged by the Branstad administration to vacate their leadership roles on the Iowa Board of Regents. They have

A few weeks ago, we ran a piece pointing out the disastrous trickle-down effect that the auto industry’s troubles have had on the companies that supply them

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Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the architect of the financial regulatory reform bill, just released a statement saying that he and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) have

GUANTANAMO BAY -- As Omar Khadr’s defense team rushes to present as much of its case as possible this week before a court-mandated government psychological exam

Laura Rozen takes a crack at it. In other words, be willing to try to get back to diplomatic negotiations with Iran, slow down their program, protect regional

Just a few days after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before House lawmakers about his role in Bank of America’s controversial buyout of Merrill

On the heals of Rep. Diana DeGette hosting a women’s business forum with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Colorado U.S.