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Former Guantanamo Bay detainees could support terrorism in the United States, even if they’re locked up in a maximum security prison, FBI Director Robert

Eve Fairbanks and Matthew Yglesias both dump cluster bombs of snark on Republicans who are opposing President Obama much the way that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)

Now that Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation hearings have more or less wrapped up (he still has to answer some questions in writing to a few

Great catch from Jonathan Martin: Republican National Committee member James Bopp Jr. wants the national committee to rename the opposition the ’Democrat

An ultrasound machine (Pic by redjar, via Flickr) Crisis pregnancy centers have joined anti-abortion groups that filed a motion to intervene in a court ruling blocking the implementation of a North Carolina law that would have forced doctors to show women an ultrasound and describe it to them before providing an abortion.

Kate Phillips has all you need to know about yesterday’s hearing on the constitutionality of czars, called by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) and taking the form

In a new study, the Center for Responsible Lending analyzes the demographics of the foreclosure crisis, and finds that foreclosure has disproportionately

Eli Lake at The Washington Times builds on yesterday’s comments from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that U.S. troops might be welcome in some form in Iraq

Two separate votes. Two high-profile legislative reforms, wrapped together, are on their way to the White House for a signature. The first installs sweeping

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, one of the Obama administration’s most influential officials shaping Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, will

Kenneth Feinberg will take over BP’s claims process for victims of the Gulf oil spill on Aug. 23. As that date fast approaches, Feinberg is rounding out his

In a speech this morning at Atlanta Technical College, Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said that the Federal Reserve will

For the past 82 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- in its reporting of national crime statistics -- has not recognized that men can be raped, that

From the White House, readouts of President Obama’s communications with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari about the

While reporters hooted at the comically simplistic charts and lack of details in the House Republican leadership’s budget plan, the green eyeshade types at

During the two-week debate over health care reform in the Senate Finance Committee, it was a Republican -- Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.) -- who pushed back most vocally

Immigrant-rights groups are up in arms after a retired U.S. Navy chief Geoff Ross filed a complaint with Immigration and Customs Enforcement alleging that GOP state Sens. Anitere Flores and J.D. Alexander “engaged in dialogue” with “suspected illegal aliens” — actually, immigrant activists — and did not report them to authorities.

I’ve reported twice now (here and here) on the issue of Gulf oil spill victims being told their claims have been expedited, or escalated, only to wait days

Sen. Barack Obama’s appearance on The O’Reilly Factor, -- TWI coverage and video here -- revives the roiling debate among Democratic strategists, Obama aides

BOSTON -- The mysterious Election Journal blog, which first released the infamous 2008 video of two bumbling New Black Panther Party members waving nightsticks