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Citing budget concerns, the Senate on Wednesday killed a $245 billion proposal to scrap the controversial formula that dictates doctor payments under

Just released from the White House communications shop: The White House today announced that Deputy National Security Director and National Security Council

For the second time this week, TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, this time to pick apart the GOP’s problematic pledge to

Louisiana Lieutenant Gov. Scott Angelle railed against the Obama administration’s moratorium on offshore drilling at a rally today in Lafayette, La, calling the

So: $25 billion, five years and 17,000 U.S. trainer troops to yield 400,000 total Afghan soldiers and cops. That’s Center for a New American Security president

<div class="mini gray">Illustration by: Matt Mahurin</div> <p>Republican presidential hopefuls Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney agreed

In response to former governor and current attorney general Jerry Brown’s (D-Calif.) positive ad selling his time in office to Californians who might not

At the bottom of Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s deeply reported story about why Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen relieved Gen.

The new book aims to train soldiers for the elements of persistent conflict, the kind the military was not prepared for in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As an addendum to this post, I see Ian Kelly, a spokesman for the State Department, had this exchange with a reporter today over the propriety of the

GOP candidate and U.S. Rep.

Pic by samantha celera, via Flickr This week, reports surfaced of a New Smyrna Beach high school teacher becoming embroiled in possible legal problems because she preregistered high school students to vote.

The US Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari in the case of Rasul v. Rumsfeld, Myers, et al., the first case in which plaintiffs who claim they were

State Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) says he was in on the joke while being interviewed by The Daily Show’s John Oliver. The late-night comedy program

It’s no news that the Obama administration has pushed hard for the creation of a public-plan option to accompany whatever health care reform overhaul the

Photographs show undocumented workers, who were paid in cash and bused in from Texas, covered in oil and mud while receiving food and water.

Immigration judges are denying fewer requests for asylum than at any other time in the past 25 years, according to a report out today from Syracuse’s

The Tea Party movement is slowly starting to shift its focus to illegal immigration, an issue that’s beginning to see a lot of attention, with rallies during

Without any ceremony, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) took to the floor this afternoon and filed a motion to hold a cloture vote Monday on a 10-year,

Benjy Sarlin talks to Tea Party leaders -- the type of people who were supposed to be the targets of RNC fundraising appeals discussed in a leaked 72-page

Official negotiations among United Nations members begin today in Vienna over a U.N. declaration to guide global drug policy for the next decade. As we’ve

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) -- last seen slandering Justice Department lawyers and then distancing himself from Liz Cheney’s similar slanders -- goes way