Sen. Rand Paul’s filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director ended early Thursday after nearly 13 hours. “I’ve discovered there are some limits to filibustering, and I’m going to have to take care of one of those in a few minutes,” Paul said to laughter, before yielding the floor.
Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost.
Jeb Bush made a surprising return to the immigration reform debate by announcing he no longer supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But after a backlash from immigration activists, he seems to be opening the door the slightest bit to changing his mind once again.
In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo posted to Instagram on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, a North Korean guide uses a pointer at the start of a tour of an historic site in Pyongyang.
First Instagram Photos From North Korea: Images Of Daily Life In An Isolated Nation
Senate Republicans have filibustered a Democratic bill that would pay down sequestration’s indiscriminate spending cuts for a year.
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Two of Hollywood’s most famous on-screen gun toters—Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone—are on very different sides of the debate over gun violence following the Newtown, Conn. school massacre.
—During remarks at the State Department on his first official day as secretary of state, John Kerry on Monday said the big question facing the U.S. and the world is, “Can a man actually run the State Department?”
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After hours of Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on gun violence Wednesday, the divides that have made it impossible for new gun regulations to pass for years were fully on display.
