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President Obama confirmed Wednesday that he plans to keep the controversial military commissions alive.

Newly appointed investigator may find it impossible — or at least very difficult — to conduct a thorough and ethical investigation that stays within those narrow bounds.

It’s been one year since then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey proposed that Congress pass legislation declaring a new, expanded war with al-Qaeda and the Taliban — thereby granting the president the authority to detain indefinitely members of those groups anywhere in the world.

Republicans and Democrats both see code in key words.

A growing number of college grads are defaulting on their student loans as the economy worsens.

Attorney General Eric Holder artfully skirts Bush-era legal problems facing the Department of Justice.

Feeling burned by bank overdraft fees of $30 or more, or by credit-card interest rates that can top 25 percent, a growing number of consumers are turning to prepaid, reloadable “cash cards.”

A plan designed to help 400,000 homeowners modify their mortgage terms has only helped 25 borrowers.

Obama’s executive order strengthening the Freedom of Information Act, issued on his second day in office, signaled his intent to open up the federal government to greater public accountability. The harder part will come in delivering results, especially at the CIA.

Two atheistic groups and a lawsuit call on Washington to end its sanction of religion in the military. Critics decry this as an attack on a venerable tradition. But the blend of martial and spiritual in the armed forces is largely the residue of the fight again communism in the late 1940s and 1950s. What will the Obama administration do?