President Barack Obama on Thursday will outline his strategy for closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, hoping to defuse a revolt by lawmakers over the fate of an internationally reviled symbol of Bush-era detainee policy.
In a much-anticipated speech, Obama will defend his still-emerging plan to shutter the detention camp at a U.S. Naval base [...]
Senate Republicans on Wednesday vowed to stay on the attack until the Obama administration reverses its decision to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
Forcing the Senate into a lopsided, 90-6 vote Wednesday to yank $90 million from a military supplemental bill reflects a turning tide in public opinion against the idea of closing the prison, [...]
The Obama administration is pressing ahead with its plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, deciding to put a “high value” detainee on trial in New York City despite resistance from some in Congress.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced early Thursday that Ahmed Ghailani (gah-lee-AHN’-nee) will be sent to New York City for trial, which [...]
Senate Democrats on Tuesday decided to strike $80 million from a spending bill that was going to fund the closure of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, testing President Obama’s plan to shutter the controversial facility by next January.
The White House worked hard to downplay the setback, but several Democrats criticized the administration for [...]
The Maxim Hot 100–and it’s No. 1 hottest female–were just announced, and joining the bootylicious ranks of Scarlett Johansson, Megan Fox and Jessica Biel is … drumroll … Olivia Wilde, who plays Dr. Remy Hadley on House.
Now. Wilde is drop-dead gorgeous, with stunning, almost feline features and one of those enviably lithe yoga-bods. She’s definitely [...]
President Barack Obama is asking consumers to put their money — up to $1,300 per new vehicle by 2016 — behind his plan for higher efficiency standards for cars and trucks and tougher rules on their greenhouse gas emissions. In return, Obama said Tuesday in unveiling the plan, drivers would make up the higher cost [...]
Embattled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has approval ratings nearly as low as Newt Gingrich when he was the primary lightning rod in Congress, a new poll says.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this afternoon found that the approval of how Pelosi is doing her job as speaker has dropped from 51 percent in January to [...]
Democrats just can’t seem to get on the same page on national security—and it could cost them dearly on an issue Republicans have dominated for decades.
Increasingly, President Barack Obama and Democrats who run Congress are being pulled between the competing interests of party liberals and the rest of the country on Bush-era wartime matters of [...]
President Barack Obama says agreement on an energy bill and a promise by interest groups to squeeze trillions of dollars in savings from the health care system show that change has come to Washington.
Some of those most opposed to past attempts at health care overhaul pledged this week to reduce the annual rate of growth [...]
Former president George W. Bush warned his successor: the realities of governing would put to the test Barack Obama’s commitment to break with his predecessor’s counter-terrorism practices.
Obama’s aides insist that he has not reneged on that promise.
But recent decisions like the one this week to fight the release of photographs documenting mistreatment of detainees by [...]
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