The Obama administration on Friday said a pair of suicide bombings in luxury American hotels in the Indonesian capital were proof of the need to remain vigilant against terror groups.

Bombs killed a dozen people, including a British soldier and five children, in southern Afghanistan, authorities said Friday, as U.S. and British officials consider sending more troops to combat the growing Taliban insurgency.

President Barack Obama has called Indonesia's leader to express support for the Indonesian government and people after suicide attacks at two hotels killed seven people.

The Green Party have voted to campaign for a 'Yes' in the Lisbon Treaty referendum at their special conference in Dublin today.

The partisan behemoths ubiquitous in national elections have already made unprecedented investments in Virginia's high-stakes race for governor this year.

President Barack Obama 's high-speed rail initiative would get an enormous boost under a spending bill that a House committee approved Friday.

THE WAY IT WAS: Legendary American anchorman Walter Cronkite has died, aged 92. Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, whose authoritative delivery of news events from the John F Kennedy assassination to the Apollo moon landing and Vietnam War, made

Galloping to the aid of the nation's wild horses and burros, the House voted Friday to rescue them from the possibility of a government-sponsored slaughter and give them millions more acres to roam.

Last year's Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, says he doesn't think of Sarah Palin as quitting her job as much as changing her priorities.

Judy Rickard took an early retirement and a reduced pension so she could be assured of more time with her partner, a British citizen whose stays in the U.S. are limited to six months.

WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he remains troubled by some of Sonia Sotomayor's remarks and rulings.

Over on Jake Tapper's blog (of all places), ABC News' Yunji de Nies that some journalists are getting a bit pissy at the Whitehouse for announcing Wednesday's press conference via Twitter: The White House Press Corps are usually the first

CNN's Kitty Pilgrim delivers a thorough debunking of the birther conspiracy theory peddled by Alan Keyes and Orly Taitz. Undaunted, Keyes and Taitz take on Pilgrim along with John Avlon and Errol Louis. As you watch, remember that and have

To the tune of that Irving Berlin/Bing Crosby classic, "White Christmas": I'm dreaming of a white SCOTUS Just like the ones I used to know Where the bald heads glisten And women listen To hear all that men do know

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What's coming up on Sunday Kos .... Devilstower will look at the evolution of Mustangs, both the 4-legged variety and the 4-wheeled sort, and what the survival of both tells us about how processes of selection shape our world. Like

In the hours following the of Walter Cronkite, the accolades began pouring in; "legendary," "iconic," "set the standard," a "voice of certainty in an uncertain world," reminders that he was once known as "the most trusted man in America," and

Six months into a new administration, plenty of jobs are still being filled, and plenty of new policies enacted. But in some key cases--a few very prominent, some obscure, agency chairs are sitting vacant. For the most part, the nominees

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