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Don’t expect to see many detainees once held at Bagram Air Field return to the fight, Vice Adm. Robert Harward, detention operations chief for Gen. Stanley

Today, the Senate approved the long-stalled Small Business Jobs Act, a deficit-neutral bill containing tax cuts and an array of other measures to aid businesses

Facing morning headlines that auto dealers are dropping out of the popular Cash for Clunkers program because the government hasn’t reimbursed the vouchers,

House Democratic leaders just ended a much-anticipated press conference to unveil the details of their health care reform bill. Trouble was, the details were

Whatever else there is to be said about mountaintop mining (and there’s plenty), no one can deny that it makes a place ugly. How could it not? The technique

<div>One of the signature achievements of the surge, according to General David Petraeus and the White House, has been the creation of so-called

As shrimpers got back to work in Louisiana yesterday, The Washington Post reports on fears that government testing of shrimp may not pass muster. According

The bailout’s demise in the House sent stocks plunging.

Once again, Michele Bachmann has been called out for exaggerating the facts. Making the case as to why she should be considered for the 2012 Republican

Michael Barbaro previews a possible New York Senate bid by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), in an interview with Politico, today: expressed frustration with Pelosi’s suggestion last week that the vitriol injected into the

As promised last week, J Street -- the liberal pro-Israel, pro-Palestine Jewish PAC -- announced its first round of endorsements in a conference call with

Sarah Palin told Fox News listeners last night following the debate that the debate, co-hosted by CNN and the Tea Party Express, validated the movement and that she no longer considers the end of September her deadline for making a decision on a presidential run. “I was very pleased with this debate and very excited about the validation of the tea party movement,” Palin told Fox’s Greta VanSusten. “The winner in this really, I believe, was the tea party movement and that validation of what it is that we’ve been talking about for two years now.” Palin had high praise for former U.S.

The British Conservative Party has just wrapped its 2009 conference, its last before what is universally expected to be a 2010 victory over the ruling Labour

The goal of picking up nine additional Senate seats on Nov. 4 was a rallying cry for Democratic supporters eager to end what they saw as two years of GOP obstructionism. Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ reelection means that won’t happen. But Democrats shouldn’t despair because there are enough persuadable GOP moderates to muzzle a filibuster.

Here’s a profound idea from California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who went after congressional Republicans yesterday for criticizing the Democrats’

Harry Reid’s effort to attach the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill was killed today when Republicans filibustered the bill. Reid promised he’d

The New America Foundation’s Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann have a new report out tallying how many civilians have died in the Pakistani tribal areas

A 22-year-old woman who pushed herself into the national spotlight with controversial undercover videos will headline Iowa Right to Life’s annual spring event next month. Lila Rose , who at age 15 founded the anti-abortion group Live Action , has made secret videotapes of her visits to Planned Parenthood clinics

Some slow-Friday news, you ask? Sure, why not. The raw-throated, conspiracy-loving radio host Alex Jones is getting set to do 30 minutes of live radio in a