A group of 100 Democratic Congressman, led by Jim Himes (D. CT), sent a letter to Obama yesterday urging him to veto a bill that would roll back the defense cuts. Scheduled to take effect in 2013, the sequestration cuts would include $500 billion from the Department of Defense, the…

U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland fielded questions Jan. 20, over the embattled nation of Syria. In recent weeks, at least 16 people were killed by security forces in Damascus. More than 5,400 people who have died since mid-March, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began the crackdown on anti-government protesters,…