It is not about a movie. The anti-Islam movie was just today's trigger in Libya, was just the most recent spark to a smoldering flame.
By ESAM MOHAMED and MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya -- The Libyan doctor who treated U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens says the diploma...
WASHINGTON — A report on misconduct in the Justice Department released Thursday paints a picture of a rudderless and sometimes dysfunctional pub...
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens writes in his new memoir, Five Chiefs, that the George W. Bush campaign's 2000 appeal to the United Sta...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski is up with a latest political ad that highlights an endorsement from the late Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator ...
Happy Friday the Thirteenth, everyone. It's actually a fitting day for this column, which I'll explain in a bit. Because before we get to that, we si...
I'll give the gun-rights supporter on NPR this morning one bit of credit in his comparison of bookstores to gun stores: books can be dangerous. Books ...
No one knows what shades of liberal or conservative ideology reside in the SCOTUS short list. But, it appears that, since Sotomayor, experience and background may trump ideology as the decisive factor.
WASHINGTON — His tenure on the Supreme Court touched four decades, following service in a war that defined his generation and a childhood in a p...
While America was distracted with an imploding economy, joblessness, and a war based on pure fraud, the GOP was busy creating a Frankenstein monster in the federal judiciary.
Given that Harry Reid's Senate is not exactly known for moving with blinding speed, one has to wonder whether Harry Reid can deliver on some of these big issues before the midterm elections or not.
There are two kinds of Americans: those who care fervently about the Supreme Court and those who care, mostly, not a whit at all about it.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has recently been sending signals that his retirement from the Court is nigh, and those signals have been stro...
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says he "will surely" retire while President Barack Obama is still in office, giving the preside...
John Paul Stevens, the longest serving Supreme Court justice speculated about his own retirement from the high court in an interview with Jeffrey Toob...
Harvard lays claim to the most Supreme Court justices -- five went there for law school. Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor both chose Princeton for the...
As the dust settles on the aftermath of the health reform summit, not much has changed. Not that anyone really expected anything to change, much, to be honest.
Retiring Justice Stevens, whose views on both abortion and capital punishment shifted during his lengthy service, exemplifies an increasingly rare type of public servant: one who is willing to change.
Questions before the Supreme Court, which begins its new term Monday, include corporate political spending, dog-fighting videos, a cross in the desert...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has filed a statement of candidacy for the 2014 election, but an aide cautions agains...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Republican Party on Thursday called on Democratic Sen. Mark Begich to resign in light of the now-abandoned federa...
Welcome to our annual awards! For the past three years, this column has paid homage (translation: "ripped off their gimmick") to the McLaughlin Group...
We have had a virtual news blackout on what is going on in the two states we're waiting for -- Missouri's presidential results, and Alaska's senatorial results. Here is what I managed to find out.
Prewitt: "It's going to be a tight race, but Stevens could still win this thing. Stevens has been around so long, and we do have a very partisan situation up here in Alaska."
Prewitt: The book is my experience working as the confidential source who spent nearly four years helping the F.B.I. pry the lid open on the sordid world of political corruption in Alaska and Washington.
