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The House of Representatives is expected to vote on a resolution Tuesday afternoon intended to force the removal of all U.S. military forces from Pakistan by the end of …

In a moving statement before Congress in February 2009, President Obama made a promise. “For seven years, we have been a nation at war,” he said. "No longer will …

If US fiscal history were a guide to politics, Democrats would be running in the 2010 mid-terms on a platform of raising taxes and doubling domestic spending on everything …

On 31 May 2010, Israeli commandos attacked protesters on the Free Gaza Flotilla. The attack was a public relations disaster for the Israeli government, greatly increasing support for the …

The House of Representatives has debated today about dumping $33 billion into the war in Afghanistan, and will vote later this afternoon. Here's how the debate went down:

If U.S. fiscal history were a guide to politics, Democrats would be running in the 2010 mid-terms on a platform of raising taxes and doubling domestic spending on everything …

Somebody really, really doesn't want Elizabeth Warren to run the new Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, or “CFPB,” which she first envisioned and proposed. Who? The big banks, for sure, …

Contracts expire in 2010 for 45,000 hotel workers in ten cities and, on July 22, several thousand supporters demonstrated across the US and Canada. This time Hyatt Hotels were …

The 92,000 classified Afghan War documents, which were just released by Wikileaks, provide a troubling narrative of that conflict’s downward spiral as President George W. Bush concentrated the American …

Perhaps the most predictable as well as the most maddening headline to emerge from the latest WikiLeaks controversy is this one from the Washington Post: "WikiLeaks Disclosures Unlikely to …