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“The Tide Is Turning” is the name of the new video recently released by anti-abortion rights group Students for Life of America, whose stated intention is

CIA Director Leon Panetta has just sent this letter to the CIA in advance of today’s anticipated release of the 2004 CIA inspector general report on torture --

Politico’s Laura Rozen obtained a formal dissent filed by a senior USAID development economist, C. Stuart Callison, against the development approach for

The possibility prompts fervent opposition from Republicans, who say the 9/11 terrorists should never be allowed anywhere on U.S. soil, let alone in a civilian U.S. court.

The first vote of conservative superstar Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) career helped torpedo a key labor nominee. The senator’s second vote will be less pleasing to

At a noon press conference in Raleigh on Tuesday, North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul “Skip” Stam said that laws that bar polygamy and incest are the

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) Eighteen Catholic colleges from around the country, including Ave Maria University in Florida, have asked the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include birth control in a list of preventive health care services. Catholic groups from all over the country have been the main opposition to a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that would require insurance companies to cover birth control without making women pay a co-payment.

WorldNetDaily breathlessly reports the latest from the birtherverse: two owners of Chrysler dealerships are going to sue to get their businesses back, on the

Has the Obama administration changed the legal rules for detaining suspects in the war on terrorism, asked Harvard law professor Noah Feldman in an op-ed in

The United States in 2010 slipped to third in the world in the amount of private capital invested in the clean energy sector, according to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts . The U.S. saw $34 billion in private equity invested in the sector last year, a 51 percent jump from 2009, but China received $54.4 billion, increasing the lead it’s held over the U.S.

Here’s new video released from Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s command in Afghanistan of McChrystal issuing post-speech strategic guidance to some of his deputies. He

Does the conservative Minnesota Republican congresswoman now support abortion rights? How else can one read the following statement, made earlier today Tuesday

Activists see a potentially galvanizing figure in Gov. Sarah Palin.

Ben Smith has a smart preview of today’s primaries in Illinois, and an analysis of which candidates voter anger will help. One storyline that looks likely to be

According to David Freddoso, the Department of Veterans Affairs has yanked Your Life, Your Choices: Planning for Future Medical Decisions, a guide to writing

The Michigan Catholic Conference is slamming the Legislature for passing a 48-month lifetime cash assistance limit without considering the impact on the 25,000 kids whose already destitute families will be kicked off aid Oct. 1.

Romney appears to have endorsed federal mandates in 2008. Hoyer predicts it’ll take the House several hours to re-approve the health care fixes. One

Josh Kraushaar finds the allies of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, airing a phony ad for Republican candidate Dede

A vote on Harold Koh’s nomination to be legal adviser to the State Department is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Yesterday, after cloture passed on Koh, I asked Tony

A new form of obstructionism by Republicans in the Senate is delaying confirmation of Obama’s nominees for federal judgeships, writes Doug Kendall, president

It’s a tactic that puts supporters of Occupy Wall Street beyond the reach of pepper spray, and it spreads far and wide in a public and private way the message of crippling financial disparity that’s at the heart of the movement. It’s a literal take on the medium being the message.