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Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, was asked

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is overjoyed now that President Obama has signed into law a bill authorizing summer and year-round activities at ski areas on national forest land.

At a hearing this morning with executives from five leading oil companies, House Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) lambasted the

Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney

Following up on Spencer’s post, Human Rights Watch isn’t the only voice expressing concerns that the Obama administration’s new Cuba travel policy doesn’t go

Eight years after Katherine Boo wrote “The Marriage Cure” for The New Yorker -- which explored the idea promulgated by the George W. Bush administration

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One thing unlikely to change as the result of President Obama’s review of Afghanistan strategy is the administration’s perspectives on Pakistan. As the Senate

Gov. Rick Scott quietly signed a handful of bills Friday, including a scaled-back set of income tax cuts and a rulemaking bill that clears up some discrepancies in last year’s House Bill 1565, which requires legislative approval for certain new regulations

On a conference call with supporters of Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom coalition on Tuesday evening, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said she would reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, while agreeing with a caller who said allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military would “destroy the armed forces.” “I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ,” Bachmann said in her introductory remarks. “I gave my life to the Lord when I was 16 years of age.

GOP presidential candidate U.S. Rep

As I reported earlier, President Obama’s Justice Department today stood up in court and asserted the so-called state secrets privilege to argue, like the Bush

Does anyone really think it’s good for the GOP, a month and a half into the Obama presidency, to spend so much time scrapping with and about Rush Limbaugh?

Lou Dobbs may be the most hated man in television today among immigrant advocacy groups, so the fact that CNN is planning to run a new series about the Latino

Senate Republicans pledged on Tuesday not to request earmarks in the next two years. But some, including the party’s Senate leader, were wary and left the door open to other ways to fund their pet projects.

One of the many unanswered questions about the current financial crisis is why there haven’t been more criminal investigations into what happened, including the

Unemployment falls to 10 percent, but don’t get too excited -- the White House won’t. And the RNC takes a glass-half-empty view. Harry Reid’s approval

The National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday announced it was unleashing robocall messages to voters in every Congressional district in Michigan being held by a Republican. In press releases, the DCCC says it has launched robocalls against Michigan Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Brighton), Justin Amash (R-Grand Rapids), Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia), Tim Wallberg (R-Tipton), Dave Camp (R-Midland), Dan Benishek (R-Crystal Falls) and Fred Upton (R-St.

There’s preambular language in the New START nuclear arms accord with the Russians that touches on Russia’s unease with America’s planned system for European

Petraeus tepidly endorses Obama’s exit plan for the war in Afghanistan. GOP senators attack Kagan for supporting Thurgood Marshall, but can’t name any of

It may be difficult for journalists to circumvent the Afghan government’s ban on reporting pre-election violence. But a friend tips me to Alive In Afghanistan,