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Scott Horton at Harper’s has posted a helpful roundup of the latest developments in the increasingly bizarre case of Binyam Mohamed in the United

Earlier this morning I referred to a written statement given to Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) from Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Rep. Charles Rangel, the animated but controversial head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, has decided to step down -- at least temporarily -- from his

This morning, President Obama addressed today’s Department of Labor report showing the unemployment rate rose in August to 9.6 percent. Obama focused on the

Rand Paul came out swinging against the Environmental Protection Agency this weekend, arguing that President Obama is forcing the EPA down out throats. The

Are we making up for our DOT pick? President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Rep. Hilda Solis to head the Dept. of Labor, according to reports. The California

Good help may be hard to find, but when it comes to security staff for this summer’s national political conventions, it’s apparently just this side

Just want to point out that fivethirtyeight’s polling chart for California’s Proposition 8 (to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage) looks exactly

UPDATE: May 3, 10:47 a.m. EST: This article was amended with a clarification, noted below. Anti-abortion rights marketing group Heroic Media is expanding

The controversial Austrian School economist, who won Internet fame for a video of his many predictions of a housing bubble burst, is strongly considering a

President Obama told reporters today that two relief wells being drilled to permanently stop oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo well are

A Senate aide says the renewable energy standard a bipartisan group of senators will unveil tomorrow will use the target in Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) energy

Appearing on CNBC yesterday, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) decried the Democrats’ plans to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans by mandat that people have

While Comcast awaits a final decision from the FCC on its acquisition of NBC Universal, it was also busy in court arguing that the FCC’s ban on withholding

According to a Pew Hispanic Center report released this week, “Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats.” The report states : Overall Latinos represent a greater share of eligible voter and resident populations in states that will gain seats than they do in states that will lose seats. Among eligible voters, in states that will gain seats 15.2% are Latino, while in states that will lose seats just 5.4% are Latino.

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory last night over Rep. Mike Castle (R) in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary, pundits are asking how in the world she did

An open letter from leaders of the groups Take Back Washington, Tea Party Nation, Downsize DC, GOProud, the D.C. Tea Party and other conservative groups calls

Even more affluent consumers are failing to pay their mortgages and credit card bills on time, the Financial Times reports. JPMorganChase chief executive

According to two people with intimate knowledge of the vaccine court, the compensation that will be paid to Hannah Poling is not the first paid by the court to

Probably the best possible conclusion to this week’s Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S. trilateral talks didn’t come from Washington. Last night, Pakistani Prime

GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons) Gov. Rick Scott last week predicted that the winner of Florida’s Presidency 5 straw poll would not only take the Republican presidential nomination, but would go on to become the next president of the United States