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The controversial pipeline that would reroute a Georgia-Pacific paper mill’s waste into the larger St. Johns River has long confounded environmentalists in the area.

On Monday, U.S. Department of Labor Sec. Hilda Solis, together with the ambassadors of Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, signed agreements

Gen. David Petraeus repeatedly made statements that supported Barack Obama’s foreign-policy proposals or cut against John McCain’s during a talk on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal reports a familiar face is back on the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain at a stop in Aspen, Colo.: Ousted John McCain

Militia activists love Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller. Barney Frank says the economy will take off, but too late to help Dems in November. Jon Stewart

The Obama transition formally announced Jack Lew and Jim Steinberg as deputy secretaries of state just now. On Lew, my pal Mark Kleiman, who knows the guy,

In an October 2001 memo released today on Monday, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo advised the Pentagon’s top

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a letter to the attorneys general of all 50 states requesting assistance in quashing discrimination against HIV-positive people in certain training programs. “It is critical that we continue to work to eradicate discriminatory and stigmatizing treatment towards individuals with HIV based on unfounded fears and stereotypes,” Assistant Attorney General Perez said

Elena Kagan can only hope it’ll be this easy for her: Gen. David H. Petraeus was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate Wednesday as the new Afghan war

Sarah Palin offers a fiancé-less Bristol relationship advice based in Reagan’s foreign policy. Democrats stay quiet about the mosque by Ground

This is the text of a letter distributed to members of Congress today by September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: As a member of an organization of those

Republican presidential hopefuls attacked the Environmental Protection Agency during a social conservative event in Iowa over the weekend, and said the United States should allow for more production of energy domestically, have fewer regulations and end a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling. Speaking at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition event on Saturday were Atlanta businessman Herman Cain ; U.S. Rep

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On Wednesday, the Department of Justice moved to block the proposed $39 billion takeover of mobile carrier T-Mobile by telecom giant AT&T, arguing the

Republican leaders in the Senate on Monday asked the top actuary at the Health and Human Services Department for a cost analysis of the Democrats’ health-care

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The Wall Street Journal has a wonderful story on the role of the CIA’s drones in harassing al-Qaeda in Pakistan, and it includes, at the bottom, this paragraph

Tea Party activists turn to an unlikely handbook. On a private call, Tea Party organizers say their goal is to kill health care reform. The AP flatly

Woodward book claims Biden called Holbrooke an egotistical bastard. Sara Palin would rather not receive Sarah Palin hate mail. The Ohio Democratic

Joe Biden threatens to strangle Republicans, quickly reassures press it’s just a figure of speech. Orrin Hatch wants to drug-test welfare