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The debate over what caused the mortgage mess and how best to fix it is now taking a sharp turn, as new problems surrounding liar’s loans and payment-option

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The U.S. military is using economy of force and intimate knowledge of the local population to combat the insurgency in Afghanistan.

Multiple GOP-affiliated groups are calling for presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson to be invited to an upcoming televised debate in New Hampshire. The debate’s hosts, CNN as well as the New Hampshire Union Leader and WMUR-TV, say they will not include Johnson because he has not received more than 2 percent support in any major national polls.

Here’s a statement the White House released from Phil Mudd, a highly respected former CIA analyst, FBI national-security chief and most recently the

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, a former chief prosecutor of the military commissions-turned-critic, has an opinion piece in the

Wind industry officials are working overtime to counter a story published yesterday by American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop that finds many of

Since the Wall Street bailout was signed into law last October, critics of the strategy have often been met with a central reassurance from leaders of the

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday signed a bill that makes abortions “based on the sex or race of the fetus” a felony in the state of Arizona

Abu Aardvark frets that the attention paid to shoe-thrower Muntader al-Zaidi will distract from Human Rights Watch’s brand new report about the kangaroo state

Well, it didn’t take long for House Republicans to recognize that having Henry Waxman atop the House Energy and Commerce Committee is a greater threat to the

Jonathan Martin has the first look at an email going out to Family Research Council supporters in which Tony Perkins tells conservatives to close their wallets

NPR has a story today on the ties between Arizona’s immigration law, SB 1070, and private prisons that stand to benefit from more illegal immigrants being

Well, if this doesn’t take some nerve: After ripping off billions of dollars of other people’s money, disgraced Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff wants to hang on to

Foundation for Government Accountability CEO Tarren Bragdon (Pic via floridafga.org) Maine is now the latest state to consider following in Florida’s footsteps by requiring welfare recipients to take a drug test before receiving benefits. The Bangor Daily News reports that “Gov

Lambda Legal , a New York-based organization committed to winning gay civil rights through the courts, announced in a press release Tuesday that it would challenge New Jersey’s 2006 same sex civil unions law for failing to bring full equality to gay residents of the state. Lambda, which is teaming with New Jersey LGBT group Garden State Equality , will refer to government studies and press investigations that document the way employers have failed to recognize couples entered into a civil union and how civil unions have been ignored or misunderstood by authorities, often in instances involving critical medical decisions. Colorado nearly passed a civil unions bill this spring that its main sponsors, Sen Pat Steadman and Rep Mark Ferrandino, acknowledged fell short of full equality

About 180 jobs are coming to the Fort Dodge area thanks to a $324 million investment from South Korean company CJ Cheiljedang, but a state senator says Gov. Terry Branstad is still way behind on his campaign promise to create 200,000 new jobs over five years. Branstad today announced the facility, which will produce amino acids through fermentation technologies.

For the past four years, every time Moqtada Sadr has made this-or-that tactical retrenchment -- standing down from the August 2004 Najaf battle; going to

Despite the boom in America’s Hispanic population over the past decade, a recent Pew Hispanic Center report shows that surge (35.3 million to 50.5 million

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will delay the release of his energy legislation until tomorrow in order to give the Congressional Budget Office more

The Humphrey Institute’s Smart Politics notes that if Rep. Michele Bachmann’s fundraising pace continues — and if she opts not to run for president — she will raise nearly $52 million by November 2012

Glenn Beck-like, I put my head in my hands over the sheer lunacy expressed by the much-disgraced former New York Democratic congressman: • Earlier in the