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Nouri al-Maliki sent hints that he actually wants a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. I was... skeptical. Now the permanent national-security adviser,

To no one’s surprise, today’s energy and climate meeting between key senators and President Obama appears to have been inconclusive, with Democrats opening up

The Senate this afternoon defeated an amendment to an appropriations bill proposed by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) that would have prevented the Pentagon from

The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill -- the product of 18 months of study and negotiation by Democratic and Republican lawmakers -- this morning

With House passage of broad oil spill response legislation late Friday, all eyes are on the Senate this week as Democrats fight to find the votes necessary to

The House leadership may not be ready to pressure embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to step down, but his colleagues are starting to amp up their

NewOrleans.com got its hands on BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill response plan. It’s 582 pages long, but I’m going to leaf through it to find items of interest.

Last-minute editing by the White House of a Department of the Interior report on the Gulf oil spill led to the false implication that the report’s

As the Justice Department prepares to argue Thursday against Arizona’s immigration law, The Associated Press takes a look into the background of the judge who

The unsurprising decision in Ricci v. DeStefano is making for political fodder against President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

Long a holdout in signing on to back the Respect for Marriage Act, Sen. Amy Klobuchar indicated this week she’ll sponsor the bill, which would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

After initially promising to come up with benchmarks for judging the success or shortcomings of its Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy -- the term preferred by the

<p>One of the world’s most notorious terrorists met a violent end late Tuesday night when a car bomb killed Hezbollah’s Imad Mughniyeh in the Syrian

Loopholes riddle campaign finance laws and ethics rules in Washington, but the widest may be the one governing corporate donations to the charities of

With Pakistani public opinion behind the military push against the Taliban, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, the Army chief of staff, declared that the tide has

A total of 28 telephone utilities have been given federal money to build and expand broadband access in rural service territories that span portions of Iowa and 17 additional states. U.S

With less than two weeks until the Iowa GOP fundraising Ames Straw Poll , 2012 presidential candidates are turning up the heat in already sweltering Iowa. Six GOP candidates will attract supporters Aug.

The American Independent will be the source of reporting that will appear on a newly designed version of The Washington Independent, which will include the invaluable archives of past TWI reporting.

State Rep. Dennis Baxley (Pic by Mark Foley, via myfloridahouse.gov ) Wednesday on MSNBC’s Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton, state Rep.

Roughly $9.2 billion, according to figures from a March report on the per-immigrant cost of each step of the removal process. The numbers are estimates, of