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Citing the unlikeliness that the public option could pass on the Senate floor, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) just announced that

UPDATED: 11:32 p.m. I cannot deny a person, a human being, a worker ... people across this state ... the same rights I have with my wife, said New York Sen.

It’s not totally clear that the Obama administration is going to do this, but just in case the administration is planning on releasing its completed

On Friday a federal court denied the Obama administration’s request to block the release of documents in a controversial national security case.

So let’s total up what was gained and what was lost by the Obama administration’s decision to scrap the never-built ballistic missile shield in Poland and the

At The Washington Post, Dana Milbank notes that Republicans have taken to criticizing Justice Thurgood Marshall as a way of attacking Elena Kagan’s (apparent)

Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) is calling for a government moratorium on new regulations for one year, according to Talking Points Memo, with new regulations only

After a meeting today with the Afghan and Pakistani foreign ministers, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that this week’s trilateral talks between

The AP has obtained a memo written by the non-Hamas wing of the Palestinian national movement: All hopes placed in the new U.S. administration and President

The effort may provide a test as to how deep American support is for an Afghanistan war.

The Obama administration has led a furious charge to convince Congress to help states meet their budget needs -- so far, to no avail.

Jesse Watters, the infamous Fox News producer who’s sometimes dispatched to ambush people who’ve said mean things about Bill O’Reilly, made the rounds of the

The White House just announced the leadership of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board: former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a big Obama supporter, and

State Rep.

PART ONE One of the country’s most affluent majority black districts has a foreclosure rate nearing the worst in the country, with the rate of foreclosure fraud spiking along with it.

Despite the longstanding prohibition on torture, the U.N. Convention Against Torture (which the United States has ratified) and the Geneva Conventions, the

Guess who wrote this and when: “We are sitting on a time bomb,” the mortgage analyst said — a huge increase in unconventional home loans like balloon

In his latest column, action star-turned-conservative pundit Chuck Norris has a revolutionary suggestion to battle the enemies within. As 9/12 concluded,