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The Supreme Court today issued a blow to victims of abuse by U.S. officials during the war on terror. The high court this morning refused to review a federal

The candidates share a rationale: if any Democrats deserve to lose next year, it will be the powerful committee chairmen who are shepherding the party’s agenda through Congress.

Following up on yesterday’s post concerning how Sen John McCain’s transition-team chief had ties to Saddam Hussein (!), a McCain spokesman named Ben Porritt

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain will make a joint appearance at Ground Zero on Thursday, to commemorate the anniversary of Sept. 11. We will put aside

Sen. Barack Obama had a quiet arrival in Hawaii to visit his ailing grandmother. His wife, Michelle, and running mate Sen. Joe Biden continue to campaign

Earlier today, Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio weighed in via Twitter on fellow anti-illegal immigration crusader Lou Dobbs’ announcement that he was

Marc Ambinder, Eli Lake and the tag team of Carol E. Lee and Laura Rozen all report on John Brennan’s compromised role directing the Obama administration’s

You don’t know what former enemy combatant Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri looks like. If you read Daphne’s stuff like you should, you know that President Obama

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates allowed the Obama administration to immediately appeal the cases of three detainees at the Bagram prison in

“We should have learned from Hurricane Betsy with Agriculture Street and we didn’t,” says Darryl Malek-Wiley, a field organizer for the Sierra Club. “We should have learned from Katrina and we didn’t. Now we’re doing it again with the Gulf oil spill.”

Even as some Republican leaders are blasting the co-op insurance model as the first step toward socialized medicine, others appear ready to embrace the strategy

Via Kevin Drum, the Toronto Star reports that Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen captured in 2002 by U.S. officials and sent to Syria for a year’s worth of torture,

So the Justice Department got most of what it wanted here. Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled this morning that the CIA will have until August 24 to release a

From the White House press secretary... As the people of Haiti observe a national day of mourning to remember those lost in the catastrophic earthquake one

KABUL – A friend of mine who’s been to Afghanistan warned me several times against flying on Ariana, the national airline. Apparently she’s traveled with a

In an effort to support state Sen. Alan Hays’ and Rep

Imagine a government that moves its top income tax rate higher and higher every year. At some point, that imaginary government would raise taxes so high that it

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall Wednesday unveiled an updated version of the Energy Security Act he worked with Arizona Senator Gabrielle Giffords to introduce last year.

The presidential hopes of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) received a third nod from the ranks of the Iowa Senate.