How much could be saved by trimming the U.S. nuclear triad…and at what cost to U.S. security?
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When women make up 20% of the Senate, they can make themselves heard
Florida Rep. Steve Southerland’s amendment made the bill unpalatable to most Democrats.
Senate negotiators are closing in on a deal to beef up the border security requirements in the proposed overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.
This must have been awkward.
The pipeline, which would transport Canadian heavy crude to refineries on the gulf coast, is a flashpoint for climate activists.
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Will Americans buy a plan they don’t love?
President Obama chose to announce a new United States nuclear strategy not to the American people, not even to members of Congress, but to German citizens. Presumably, he thought a speech at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, where …
Privacy rights groups yearn to keep the NSA surveillance programs in the spotlight as immigration reform preoccupies Congress.
