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Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala (right) with Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via stearns.house.gov) A reproductive rights group plans to deliver more than 130,000 signatures today to Rep.

A long-awaited report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence into the failed bombing attempt aboard Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Adam Serwer at The American Prospect tears through a weekend dump of torture documents and finds something disturbing in an FBI inspector general’s report about

The New York Times editorial board came out swinging in a Sunday editorial on climate change, slamming Republican Senate candidates for questioning whether

Steve Benen flags some disturbing news out of South Carolina: South Carolina’s more than 236,000 unemployed workers could have to take a drug test in order to

Time is almost up for the Obama administration’s dual-tracked approach to Iran. As the Islamic Republic keeps rejecting the administration’s diplomatic

The Los Conchas wildifre has burned 43,000 acres since Sunday, forcing residents of Los Alamos to evacuate Monday, reports the Los Alamos Monitor: County officials issued a mandatory evacuation for Los Alamos Town Site and residents left Monday afternoon. Shelters open at this time are the Santa Claran Resort Center, Cities of Gold Casino and Pojoaque High School. A Type I Incident Management has been ordered and in its latest advisory, the Forest Service said, seven Hotshot crews (Type 1 crews), 12 Type 2 Crews, 7 engines, and 20 aircraft (12 air tankers and 8 helicopters)

At a critical juncture in the Senate’s energy and climate negotiations, the president chose not to push a carbon pricing proposal.

John McCain worked on key legislation with Rep. Rick Renzi, now indicted in connection with the sale of a business associate’s land. Did the senator know about any of it?

There’s been a lot of unnecessary politicization of national security issues,’’ Holder testified.

The decision to modify loans, under Obama’s programs, has been left in the hands of the same mortgage servicing companies that often stand to profit more from foreclosures.

My friend Siobhan Gorman has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal anticipating that Obama won’t significantly change Bush’s intelligence policies, which

Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in NY-23, has conceded a final defeat to Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) in a statement that calls for more monitoring

In the wake of recent damning testimony and reports outlining the tactics used by insurance companies to bolster bottom lines, The New York Times today takes a

Here’s a short video from the gathering of Tea Party activists today in Washington, before they set off to stage a die-in in Senate office buildings to

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From Peter Baker’s New York Times Magazine overview of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism: Most of those , of course, were in the moderate camp

Jonathan Rauch -- one of the few libertarian/conservatives, like Bruce Bartlett and David Frum, who has remained more hopeful than partisan in the Obama era --