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Rick Santorum said he opposed a major funding vehicle for family planning programs, but ultimately voted for it as part of a larger spending bill.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 4:00 am
After 20 debates, a long-running television series appears to be wrapping up.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 3:57 am
Mitt Romney tried to regain his lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, assailing the voting record of Rick Santorum in a fiercely combative exchange.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 3:56 am
Gov. Bob McDonnell said he wanted an amendment stipulating that pre-abortion ultrasounds be limited to a non-invasive abdominal scan.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 3:51 am
The Obama administration’s proposal to extend tax breaks to manufacturers would result in other companies losing some lucrative tax benefits.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 3:46 am
Times reporters take a closer look at some of the statements made by the Republican presidential candidates in Wednesday night's debate.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 3:43 am
Rick Santorum's rationale for an education vote was a curious -- and unusual -- acknowledgement of politics trumping values.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 3:20 am
President Obama sang again on Tuesday night, carrying on a tradition of chief executives who dabble in music.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 3:17 am
Newt Gingrich, as speaker, did preside over a period in which the number and total cost of earmarks spiraled upward.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 2:58 am
President Obama asked Congress to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, entering a debate with Republicans who seek even lower taxes for businesses.
Posted: February 23, 2012, 1:31 am
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After two weeks of playing down the prospect of military intervention in Libya, the Obama administration is on the brink of inserting itself into a third war in a Muslim nation.
Posted: March 19, 2011, 11:59 pm
In a span of weeks, popular uprisings in the Islamic world have upended counterterrorism relationships that the United States spent much of the past decade trying to build.
Posted: March 8, 2011, 2:04 am
The Army has brought new charges - including one that carries the death penalty - against Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, a former intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks.
Posted: March 3, 2011, 1:52 am
What's the role of the president's national security adviser?
Posted: March 1, 2011, 12:11 am
In some ways, Zuhdi Jasser doesn't match the profile of the typical Muslim American. He's an active Republican who has supported the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is an advocate for Israel and says his faith harbors "an insidious supremacism."
Posted: February 28, 2011, 3:55 am
A 20-year-old Saudi student who was arrested in Lubbock, Tex., late Wednesday was close to constructing a bomb and had researched possible targets, including the Dallas home of former president George W. Bush and the residences of three Americans who served at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, autho...
Posted: February 25, 2011, 4:15 pm
Supreme Court justices Tuesday seemed inclined to give Carol Anne Bond the chance to challenge the federal law under which she was prosecuted for trying to poison her husband's lover: a chemical weapons ban.
Posted: February 23, 2011, 4:03 am
The House passed a 90-day extension of key provisions of the USA Patriot Act counterterrorism surveillance law on Thursday, sending the measure to President Obama for his signature.
Posted: February 18, 2011, 1:04 am
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday defended his plan to increase by $5 a month the fee retired working-age military personnel pay for family health-care coverage, after a member of Congress called it a "breach of trust."
Posted: February 17, 2011, 1:05 am
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen a new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, after months of delay and disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameters of the job that became vacant with the December death of Richard C. Holbrooke, senior ...
Posted: February 15, 2011, 5:36 am
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Prince William County supervisors want to pursue litigation against the Department of Homeland Security and are asking Congress to investigate how the agency has handled the illegal immigrants turned over by county law enforcement officials.
Posted: February 20, 2011, 5:00 am
The General Services Administration is preparing to restart a multibillion-dollar competition to design, install, test and maintain a data network on the new Department of Homeland Security campus at St. Elizabeths.
Posted: January 17, 2011, 5:00 am
KABUL - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, on a two-day visit here, said Saturday that her department plans to significantly bolster its activities in Afghanistan over the coming year, adding as many as 54 agents to the current contingent of 25.
Posted: January 2, 2011, 5:00 am
The General Services Administration has reopened its search for 1.1 million square feet of office space for the Department of Homeland Security.
Posted: November 15, 2010, 5:00 am
Defense Department procurement brings to mind Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and other big companies delivering major weapon systems.
Posted: September 6, 2010, 4:00 am
THE REPORT is chilling. Optimistically titled "U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team Makes Progress in Securing Cyberspace, but Challenges Remain," it paints a disturbing picture of a national security disaster waiting to happen. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or CERT, established in...
Posted: June 20, 2010, 4:00 am
CONGRESS LONG ago demonstrated its disdain for the residents of the District of Columbia. So there's little hope that appeals about the rights or even the safety of its 600,000 residents will factor into consideration of the specious effort to rewrite the city's gun laws . What lawmakers might want...
Posted: May 19, 2010, 4:00 am
A major Department of Homeland Security information technology program is drawing interest from hundreds of companies as they ready for a draft solicitation later this month.
Posted: May 10, 2010, 4:00 am
BARCELONA -- Janet Napolitano stood near the water's edge, arms crossed, gazing up at a giant X-ray contraption.
Posted: April 22, 2010, 4:00 am
Secretary of the Departmentof Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on national security, running for governor of Arizona and more.
Posted: April 18, 2010, 4:00 am