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A judge’s ruling could have wide-reaching implications for 600 detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.

I don’t know if I can handle any more Alaska drama! The Anchorage Daily News reports this morning that Democratic Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich has pulled

Rep. Tom Perriello, a freshman Democrat from Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, is facing a tough re-election campaign. Not only does he hail from a

The Federal Reserve releases minutes of its meetings discussing monetary policy and reviewing risks to the economy on a six-year delay, and last week it

Over at Economist’s View, Mark Thoma points out that the placement of the play button on this video of President Bush (at the bottom of the post)

When Obama reprimanded groups like Crossroads GPS and the Chamber of Commerce for soliciting secret funds to fuel GOP attack ads, Karl Rove bragged on Fox

Following a few cursory introductory sentences at Alcoa’s eastern Iowa aluminum facility, which included ‘the Quads’ moniker he has long used when referring to the Quad Cities area, President Barack Obama got down to business quickly. “Almost every airplane in the world has some kind of Alcoa product in it. Think about that

BP says that oil has stopped leaking out of the Macondo well into the Gulf of Mexico. Here’s AP’s story: BP says oil from its broken well has stopped

Sen. Gregg (R-N.H.) began the year as the next face of bipartisanship. President Obama nominated Gregg, the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, as the

Penalties from criminal and civil prosecutions by the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to reach a record high for fiscal year 2008. The agency’s

Check out this quote in Julian Barnes’ Los Angeles Times piece on the fallout from the McChrystal strategy review leak: One defense analyst who regularly

House lawmakers announced a deal last night on their sweeping proposal to tackle climate change, but not before the bill’s sponsors were forced to bow once more

The Associated Press, NBC News and The Washington Post are reporting that President Obama will announce this morning that federal appeals court judge Sonia

The increasingly relevant GOP congressman from Texas has emailed his Campaign for Liberty list in support of Steve Lonegan, the more conservative of the two

Despite the recent good news that U.S. home prices rose 2.9 percent in the second quarter of 2009, it’s too early to call a turnaround for the battered housing sector.

The media have jumped all over the story of Ashley Todd, a McCain campaign volunteer in Pittsburgh who claims she was attacked because she supports Sen. John

When asked by a reporter at an Iowa stop what the penalty should be for women who have abortions and doctors who perform abortions if his stance on overturning legal abortion prevails, Tim Pawlenty initially said there shouldn’t be a criminal sanction. It was a statement that his spokesman quickly clarified after the appearance. Former Gov.

The Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group that has been waging a long campaign targeting anti-abortion Democrats in the Midwest over their votes in

Four AP reporters (get set for a conservative attack on how many resources the organization devoted to this story) dig into the timeline of the James O’Keefe et

Curious choice of words from Defense Secretary Bob Gates yesterday on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He’s talking about how to deal with the law-slash-regulation in

Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters,

A pair of stories from The New York Times reveal Sen. John McCain has not divorced himself from lobbyists as much as his presidential campaign would have you