Dick Durbin

For Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his six senior ministers, known collectively as the septet, Pessah – and the scattered holidays and days of…

Taking an important step on the thorny path to closing the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House plans to announce Tuesday…

US President Barack Obama's administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal…

US Vice President Joe Biden will be headlining the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference, AIPAC announced Saturday. Biden,…

With the House of Representatives and Senate giving final approval to the massive stimulus bill Friday, and President Barack Obama prepared to sign…

Major US banks sought government permission to bring thousands of foreign workers into the country for high-paying jobs even as the system was…

The Senate's leaders are standing solidly behind Israel's ground operation against Hamas. Sens. Harry Reid and Dick Durbin - the top two Democrats…

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was roused from bed and arrested Tuesday after prosecutors said he was caught on wiretaps audaciously scheming to sell…

Three Democratic senators are demanding civil rights protections for Americans who might be targeted in FBI national security investigations without…

Neither Sarah Palin nor Hillary Clinton will be appearing at a New York City rally Monday sponsored by Jewish organizations, as politics overshadowed…

Proposed rules to help the FBI catch terrorists could lead to innocent Americans being spied upon by government agents or informants "all without any…

Defenders of Barack Obama, and sometimes Obama himself, seem frustrated that some American Jews refuse to assume their traditional role of support…

With all the major new information about the Holocaust that has become available over the past decades, it might have been expected that the…

The Senate's second-ranking Democrat said Saturday it is time for Republicans to stop stonewalling and engage in "compromise and cooperation" to get…

Democrat Barack Obama has stepped up criticism of front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, sending Iowans a mailing noting that he opposed a measure that…

Following a meeting with Pakistan's leader, the US Senate's second-highest ranking Democrat on Wednesday defended the country's efforts to battle…

Some low-level al-Qaida members were among a dozen militant fighters killed by a military attack on two compounds near the Afghan border, officials…

I grew up in Connecticut, so an item about a Connecticut high-school student complaining that her classmates mocked her for wearing traditional…

In recent weeks, readers of The New York Times were subjected to statements comparing Palestinian Arabs to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Such…

miniseries about the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks is "terribly wrong" and television network ABC should correct it or not air it, a…