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Rudy Giuliani’s endorsement of Marco Rubio is one of the most obvious -- and delightful -- cases of political revenge in a long while. In July 2007, Gov.

Apparently, to teach at Texas Tech, it’s not disqualifying to be a disgraced former official with a flagrant disregard for the law. An unemployment rate of 9.5

Do you think Tim Geithner, President Obama’s pick for treasury secretary, is serious about reining in executive compensation under the Troubled Asset Relief

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The Cable’s Josh Rogin interviews Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Kit Bond (R-Mo.), who attended this afternoon’s White House meeting on

Bankrupt lender CIT Group announced today that it hired former Merrill Lynch Chairman and CEO John Thain to take over the top slot at the company and,

Former Denver Superintendent of Schools, Sen. Michael Bennet, (D-Colo.), survived baptism by fire this week after being associated with Vice President Joe Biden

Ah, the varieties of opposition to the Afghanistan war. Last week, conservative columnist George Will argued that the Obama administration needed to scale back

New controversial fight emerges over foreign lawsuits.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s meeting to vote to send Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation to the full Senate is back on. Judiciary

The backlash towards our community is nowhere even close, Jamal Baadani said. I attribute that to the intellect and the resiliency of the American people. And that’s why I’m proud to be an American.

Just released by the British embassy. Coordinated with the Obama statement? President Karzai has just made an important statement to the people of

The House passed an oil spill response package today in a 209-193 vote, despite strong objections from Republicans. The package passed after hours of floor

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference began with a two-man rev-up for Marco Rubio, the former GOP speaker of the House in Florida who has become a

Phil Klein talks to Charles Djou, the GOP candidate in the House district that includes Honolulu and looks unusually winnable thanks to an open primary that

The Senate on Tuesday moved a step closer to passing a 14-week, nationwide extension of unemployment benefits, clearing a procedural hurdle that will bring the

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck lit into former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) for his disastrous, rambling appearance on the Tuesday episode of Beck’s Fox News

While the steady rise in the nation’s unemployment rate has become shorthand for the recession’s impact, many economists say the grim figures — 8.9 percent in April — don’t tell the whole story of Americans’ financial distress.

I had no luck getting members of Congress to talk yesterday about the relationship between Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, and the CIA. But

Amb. Susan Rice, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, just released this transcript of her submission for U.N. Security Council consideration of a package of

Some shocking numbers from a new CBS News/New York Times poll, revealing that just 8 percent of Americans think the sitting members of Congress deserve

In early April, the tenuous security gains of 2007’s surge by U.S. troops in Iraq were jeopardized by an Iraqi government assault against hard-line Shiite

I attended the first half of last night’s National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington, bolting (with about half the press corps) after