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Alan Bersin, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was asked a good question during a talk this afternoon hosted by the Migration Policy

Three immigrants in Georgia filed what some experts said could be the first legal challenge to the 287 (g) program, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Well, we knew that SEC employees weren’t policing the Lehman Brothers or sharing information on its collapse with the Fed and they weren’t getting Goldman to

On the crucial question of where Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be tried and in what forum -- where nuance will be heavily scrutinized -- Eric Holder held out

I thought yesterday’s hit on Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for the coincidence of voting for health care reform after his wife got to appear at an event

After Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s address to AIPAC, I caught up with two representatives of J Street, the younger and more progressive

In the two weeks since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new rule limiting cross-state air pollution from power plants, Gov. Rick Perry and

Because everybody loves to read about climate policy on their days off, here’s a Politico discussion with key energy and climate wonks on whether Congress and

My story today focuses on the pushback from conservatives who have issued apologies for some far-out behavior by a few activists last weekend. Andrew Breitbart

Mark Leon Goldberg reports that John Bolton, the Bush administration’s former ambassador to the United Nations, has a new book out. It’s called ConUNdrum -- get

Today, the Obama administration lays out the case against a nationwide foreclosure moratorium. In the Huffington Post, Shaun Donovan, the Secretary of Housing

Parliamentarian rules against GOP objections to health care. The abortion debate makes a comeback. Here’s a list of the top 18 immediate effects of the

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor today to decry the crippling effect of federal income taxes on families and the economy. While we

Will Bunch has the name of Glenn Beck’s upcoming adult novel (he’s already written a Christmas story for children) to be released in June. The news comes in

Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement responding to the Military Commission verdict for Salim Hamdan, who was just found guilty of material support for

On CBS’ 60 Minutes Sunday, President Obama said There’s got to be an exit strategy for Afghanistan, but today he ... didn’t give one. What’s the story

At a small health care briefing put on by several House Republicans, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) argued that the president had lost momentum on health care

It might not be the best day to trumpet the rule of law over U.S. counterterrorism efforts, but Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice

Speaking of border security, Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, a Tea Partier who ousted Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state’s Republican primary, has a proposal

If it seems that news reporters are relying more and more on unnamed government sources in their story-telling, it’s because we are. Much of that is our own

After confirming that the administration has determined 48 detainees at Guantanamo who are not feasible to transfer too dangerous to prosecute, Attorney