Politics

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OPINION - Even if Barbour did not tote a storage locker of personal and political baggage, his candidacy would still…
/ April 26, 2011
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In a county named for a New York congressman, a uniquely Southern controversy is brewing over the Confederate flag...
/ April 25, 2011
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Haiti's president-elect, Michel Martelly, known universally to his countrymen as "Sweet Micky," is -- let's be delicate about this --…
/ April 25, 2011
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SLIDESHOW - This year's theme 'Get Up and Go!' focuses on promoting health and wellness as part of the first…
/ April 25, 2011
The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother. That first glimpse was surprising -- the stout,…
/ April 25, 2011
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and his family attended Easter service Sunday at a Washington church founded in 1863…
/ April 25, 2011
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AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) - The music captures the anger and frustration young Libyans feel at decades of repressive rule under…
/ April 25, 2011