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A last-minute Bush era rule upends immigrant rights to re-open a case if they could show that they were denied a fair hearing due to their lawyer’s mistakes.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the new ranking Republican on the the Senate Judiciary Committee, just made quite clear the pressure on Homeland Security

... As a punchline at last night’s Gridiron Dinner in Washington. Mike Allen reports on Vice President Joe Biden’s routine: You know, I never realized just how

Bonner & Associates says that while they may be responsible for the 13 other forged letters to Congress, they’re not to blame for fake letter No. 14 that

Top officials from Kabul, Islamabad hope to have a say in the Obama administration’s new blend of diplomatic, developmental and military approaches for the two countries.

Fresh out the inbox: Muslim tradition dictates a child born of a Muslim father is automatically of the same faith. If that child denounces the faith he is

The Big Picture offers a nice rundown of all the gloomy auto sales news today. Note that nearly all the major car manufacturers made the list of companies

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Conservatives are smiling this morning about a Wall Street Journal piece claiming that President Obama, in his health reform speech to Congress last week,

Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater’s most dogged journalistic pursuer, has an absolute monster story in The Nation about the Joint Special Operations Command

Even more affluent consumers are failing to pay their mortgages and credit card bills on time, the Financial Times reports. JPMorganChase chief executive

An open letter from leaders of the groups Take Back Washington, Tea Party Nation, Downsize DC, GOProud, the D.C. Tea Party and other conservative groups calls

According to two people with intimate knowledge of the vaccine court, the compensation that will be paid to Hannah Poling is not the first paid by the court to

In the wake of Christine O’Donnell’s victory last night over Rep. Mike Castle (R) in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary, pundits are asking how in the world she did

Brandeis University’s Micah Zenko has an interesting op-ed in The Boston Globe looking at the stepped-up use of missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets in

Probably the best possible conclusion to this week’s Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S. trilateral talks didn’t come from Washington. Last night, Pakistani Prime

Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has catalyzed as much hysteria as it has environmental stewardship. During the holiday’s first half-decade of observance,

It’s the Persian New Year, Nowruz, and President Obama recorded a video message to the Iranian people, intended to indicate respect for their cultural heritage.

Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey, explaining how he can defeat Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.): Reagan carried this state twice. I don’t think this state has

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims remained high, at 456,000. That is a decline of 3,000 from last week’s claim,

It turned out money couldn’t buy a revolution.