Attorney General Eric Holder is defending lawyers who represent unpopular clients like terror suspects. Holder says such attorneys are patriots who deserve respect. Holder was answering critics who questioned the values of lawyers who once worked on behalf of detainees and are now at the Justice Department ...

The Pentagon said it might extend a deadline for bids on a new aerial refueling tanker after Airbus parent EADS signalled it could return to the competition. Having been informed by EADS of its possible interest in the contract, the Defense Department "would consider a reasonable extension to the RFP (Request for Proposals) deadline," press secretary Geoff Morrell told AFP ...

WASHINGTON As Republicans ramp up their campaign against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the partys Nevada and Washington operations cant seem to get their stories straight on a line of attack. In Nevada, Reid is badgered for not doing enough for the state not using his power ...

Harry Reid Is Dead, one in an occasional series: IÕm not sure who is less praiseworthy these days — the four-term senator stumbling through his re-election partly because he perpetually has his foot in his mouth, or his unimaginative opponents who have nothing to run on but GOP talking points and twisted, inflammatory rhetoric. Beyond the reflexive Reid-haters and vote-blue-all-the-time Democrats ...