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The Obama budget outline balances a line that was widely applauded by Republicans from the president’s Wednesday night speech to Congress—“we will

What did the human-rights-promotion community think about the Cairo speech? According to vanguard organization Human Rights Watch’s official statement, emailed

With much of the focus of the health reform debate on whether or not to include a public option, the individual insurance mandate also being pushed by President

According to a new United Nations report, 2009 was the deadliest year for Afghan civilians since the U.S. invaded in 2001. The international body tallied 2,412

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died late Tuesday in Hyannis Port, Mass., after a

As I noted in my story today, Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright has raised the ire of many conservative Jewish groups,

Daphne’s already blown the kazoo and hung the streamers for today’s release of the 2004 CIA inspector general report on the agency’s use of torture enhanced

The Hill reports today that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) won’t scrap the special panel she created last year to tackle climate change. The select

Unemployment in the U.S. hit a new high mark in June, media reports said Friday , hitting 9.2 percent nationally and drawing scorn from several top Republicans who placed the blame on President Barack Obama and his administration.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- After a lengthy exchange in which Kobie Flowers, an attorney for Omar Khadr, sought to establish that preparatory material used by FBI Special

The Obama administration is apparently going to release the 2005-era Office of Legal Counsel memoranda about what torture techniques the CIA could employ. Keep

A coalition of renewable energy advocates and labor and environmental groups got specific today in calling for passage of a renewable energy standard this

Speaking just before the Audit the Fed amendment went to vote (ongoing now), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the architect of the financial regulatory reform bill,

That’s the idea that was being tossed around yesterday in the Senate, where several White House officials testified before the Banking Committee on the early

The border fence has become something of a political minefield for President Obama.

Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a California-based religious right webcast on Mar.

Car manufacturers looking for a bailout in December pledged to meet standards they now call unreasonable.

In his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, Congress’s Phony War on Torture,” William McGurn takes congressional Democrats to task for not immediately

The militant triviality of Washington personalities is enough to make me break character and go outside of my national-security lane. Andy Card, chief of staff

To some, Memorial Day signals the start of summer; to political observers, it marks the onset of a contentious primary season that will pit outsiders against party favorites.

A group of House Republicans thinks there are Muslim spies posing as interns on Capitol Hill. Why did Snowe break ranks and vote for the health care