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Jeff Wexler of Boca Raton said that on Sunday, a 36-year old Major, the son of two of his constituents, died in the Green Zone as the result of a mortar attack.

We wrote recently that Democrats could have a tough time passing their big-ticket priorities next year because some freshman members -- many of whom represent

The Christian Science Monitor carries an interview with an anonymous and recently retired senior Pakistani intelligence official, who tells us to expect more

Harry Shearer plans to buy up all the comedic talent in the world, one jokester at a time.

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Here’s more video from the front end of today’s red alert anti-health care reform protest -- a lengthy first crack at a Tea Party version of The Twelve Days

Today, I’ll be covering a Treasury Department conference on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that provide

For all the talk about Obama not governing as a progressive, take a look at his first not-even-48 hours in office. He’s suspended the Guantanamo Bay military

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (aka CREW) has filed an FBI complaint against Rep.

My understanding is that around 2:00 or 2:30 p.m. today, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) are going to introduce their bill providing aid

Tax cuts are generally less stimulative than spending measures, but among tax cuts, a holiday or slashing of the payroll tax is one of the best options, the

The senators who voted last fall to approve the federal bailout of Wall Street hold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in the very banks that Washington has rescued in the nine months since.

The case of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen arrested in New York and sent to Syria to be interrogated under torture, will be re-heard today by the Second

President Obama’s speech changed a debate over entitlement programs to streamlining an inefficient health care system at the route of the problem.

In and of itself, it’s not really surprising that Dick Cheney should defend the torture and indefinite detention -- which, the founding fathers understood, was

The percentage of homeowners either in foreclosure or late on a mortgage payment topped 13 percent nationwide in the second quarter of 2009, the Mortgage

When I returned from Atlanta to D.C. in November 2008, having wrapped up coverage of the Libertarian Party’s presidential campaign for Reason magazine, Spencer

Sen. John McCain has an op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times today about the potential government bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Here’s the first