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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the nine-term Massachusetts Democrat currently being treated for a cancerous brain tumor, will not return to Capitol Hill this year,

In another black mark on the Obama administration’s promised transparency, former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal fight to

Last week, I noted that House Republicans had introduced a motion to penalize strategic defaulters -- underwater homeowners who simply stop paying their

The Senate is on the verge of passing a bill extending unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks nationwide, after lawmakers on Monday easily hopped the procedural

A local anti-abortion group is set to picket a Children’s Services Council meeting on Thursday morning in an effort to stop funds from going to a local Planned Parenthood for comprehensive sex education programs. The group, St. Lucie Taxpayers against Tax Funding of Planned Parenthood, will protest the possibility of the local Children’s Services Council (CSC) renewing funding to Planned Parenthood after years of contributing to the group

The Senate just voted down Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) resolution to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that greenhouse gas emissions

Today’s news that former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer was under arrest provided state Democrats with new glue in their ongoing effort to stick his spending

J.D. Hayworth, the former congressman from Arizona who announced a primary bid against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) this month, is all over CPAC. Last night he

Unlike Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who was getting clobbered in his bid for reelection this year, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) had a great shot of retaining the

Barely a week ago, the Iraqi government was refusing to sign a status of forces agreement with the U.S. military, despite the agreement’s guarantee of a

I was out on Friday and offline this weekend, but don’t miss Adam Serwer at Tapped birddogging a CBS report on a Pentagon survey ostensibly showing an 18

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the high court’s newest addition, was given the honor of issuing the first ruling of the Supreme Court’s term yesterday. On its face,

It’s a testament to Jon Stewart’s extraordinary abilities to speak sensibly in an age of insanity that we expect him to skewer knaves like John Yoo, the former

The now 14-month old case of members of the fringe New Black Panther Party being charged for voter intimidation outside of a heavily Democratic polling place in

Trapped in a deepening fiscal quagmire, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has proposed a budgetary shift that could jeopardize federal stimulus funding

Republicans and even some moderate Democrats have blasted it this week, but a $1.2 trillion House proposal to overhaul the nation’s health care system got an

The nascent anti-draft to stop Sen. Evan Bayh (Ind.), first reported here at TWI, has now swelled to include a Twitter outreach, an earned media radio

Here’s Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) last week criticizing the banks -- and the lawmakers beholden to the banks -- after controversial changes were made to a

Two weeks ago, we ran a piece on lobbying efforts to derail the DISCLOSE Act, which would roll back the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision by forcing

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What do I mean when I say that the inspectors general report on warrantless surveillance shows a larger role for CIA in the post-9/11 surveillance efforts than