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One of the defining moments of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan strategy that I covered yesterday came when Sen. John Kerry

Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he’ll be splitting the Mineral Management Service into three pieces in response to charges that

Not really sure what to make of this, fresh out from the Pentagon: President Barack Obama’s 2010 defense budget request will be delayed, possibly until

Human Rights USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are expected to make their case why the United States must

Today’s ruling by a federal district court judge that some prisoners who’ve been detained in Afghanistan for years without charge or trial have the right to

One of the key storylines of the year has been the GOP’s inability to grab a real advantage from voter disappointment with President Obama and the Democrats. A

Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar are holding a meeting tomorrow of industry stakeholders, key government officials and

RELATED: Video from Torture Hearing If last week’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on torture represented a watershed of disclosure, today’s

A rare joint talk Thursday exposed some differences their countries have with the Obama administration’s new strategy to confront extremism in South Asia, as well as with each other.

So why did Feith believe the Taliban -- not Al Qaeda -- was entitled to Geneva Conventions protections but not P.O.W. privileges? This comes across as

A new report from the Treasury Department -- the last of its kind -- shows that despite all the regulation-avoiding PR campaigns, new loans at the nine largest

Since its inception, the health insurance industry has fought doctors over payments, dropped patients when they’ve gotten sick and denied coverage for those

Of the nine dismissals in the U.S. attorney scandal, the firing of former New Mexico U.S. Atty. David Iglesias was probably the most blatantly partisan. A

The McCain campaign quickly backtracked from its Tuesday announcement that the Republican presidential nominee invented the BlackBerry, explaining that the

I reported earlier this week that Republicans were holding up a vote to confirm Surgeon General nominee Regina Benjamin because, basically, of arguments over

With all the necessary caveats about polling in Afghanistan, this new BBC poll finds a surprisingly robust acceptance among Afghans for the U.S. troop

On Tuesday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) rolled out the House GOP’s budget blueprint for 2012. Meanwhile, the White House and the GOP-controlled House