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So reports The Washington Post. What’s that mean exactly? There are periods when an enemy does well and seems better trained and fights harder, one senior

Latino workers and families in the U.S. are among the largest beneficiaries of federally funded health insurance, but depending on the outcome of the current budget debate, they could end up losing that access. # Alvaro Garcia is a documented immigrant with a college degree who cannot afford to get ill, and he has a previous heart condition that fortunately has not bothered him in the last few years.

Adam Smith reports out the not-so-secret rumor that the Club for Growth wants to endorse Marco Rubio in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Florida. David Keating,

Even with public anger at banks reaching new levels, Rep. Barney Frank can’t ignore the powerful finance industry.

Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of seven same-sex couples and their children alleging that New Jersey’s civil unions law does not satisfy a

In an interview with Adam Serwer of The American Prospect, Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress says that the September 14, 2001 congressional

<p>Eight years on, John McCain is the victim of another vile smear in South Carolina by something calling itself Vietnam Veterans Against McCain. (They

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for South Florida has been placed on administrative leave pending a child pornography investigation.

We might be on the verge of a major breakthrough with the Taliban. As I’ve been noting, the Karzai government in Afghanistan has been putting out feelers to the

A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News reveals mixed messages from the American public over the country’s budget crisis. With regard to fixing the

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) -- the heads of the Senate Banking and House Financial Services committees -- have set an ambitious

In the guts of this Washington Post tick-tock about President Obama’s decision to release the torture memos comes an account of a meeting at CIA headquarters in

Kyrgyzstan may have just sold the United States’ rights to Manas Air Base to a higher bidder -- Russia.

As Democrats in both Congress and the White House appear willing to wait a few more weeks (or months?) to tackle legislation that would allow bankruptcy judges

Tim Pawlenty has been touting his record of oppositoin to abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood, but this hard-line on abortion is somewhat new. One acquaintance of Pawlenty’s says that his “pro-life” stance is faked, and a report by Mother Jones on Thursday demonstrates that Pawlenty approved a “dizzying increase” funds for Planned Parenthood and other family planning agencies — according to a local paper at the time — during his two terms as governor, as well as cutting abstinence-only programs