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NAACP takes bid to ensure US ex-con voting to UN
The NAACP is taking to the U.N. its effort to ensure that all former convicted felons in the United States can vote. A delegation from the National ...
Romney says Clinton can 'do a man a lot of good'
Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney is unlikely to win Bill Clinton's vote, but that doesn't mean he can't soak up a bit of the popular former ...
NJ gay couple to sue over political attack mailer
A gay couple from New Jersey is suing a group that used their engagement photo in an attack mailer against a Republican Colorado state lawmaker who ...
Arkansas governor changes course on health care
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has never been popular in Arkansas, a state where even most Democrats regard the law as politically ...
Court grants appeals from 2 people without lawyers
Well-heeled clients pay tens of thousands of dollars to hit the legal jackpot — Supreme Court review of their appeals. But on Tuesday, the court ...
Romney kicks off bus tour of battleground Ohio
Kicking off an Ohio bus tour, Republican Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama is offering a "foreign" vision of government. At an airport rally in ...
Suu Kyi tells Ind. crowd to look back to Burma
Myo Myint lost most of his right arm and right leg and several fingers fighting for the Burma army before he began working against Myanmar's military ...
Obama campaign has momentum _ and nerves
Six weeks from Election Day, President Barack Obama's campaign has momentum — and a big case of nerves. Top advisers are both relishing in Obama's ...
House panel: New rules needed in lawmaker probes
Hardly any endeavor so unnerves members of Congress as policing each other's conduct. Now, a temporary ethics panel that went in to rescue a troubled ...
Biden campaigns in GOP-voting Virginia suburb
Vice President Joe Biden made a raw appeal to Virginia's middle class on Tuesday, blasting the GOP presidential ticket for pushing what he says is a ...
THE RACE: Politics infuse Obama, Romney speeches
President Barack Obama had an audience and megaphone that Republican challenger Mitt Romney could only envy: addressing an array of global leaders as ...
Obama urges UN to confront roots of Muslim rage
President Barack Obama told world leaders Tuesday that attacks on U.S. citizens in Libya "were attacks on America," and he called on them to join in ...
DNA case backlog at FBI down 87 percent in 2 years
The FBI laboratory has reduced its backlog of forensic DNA cases by 87 percent in two years, from 3,211 cases to 403 cases. The Justice Department's ...
Court to decide if SEC can sue Gabelli Fund execs
The Supreme Court will decide how long the Securities and Exchange Commission can wait before suing fund executives for securities fraud. The high ...
Romney: Benghazi a 'terrorist attack'
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the attack on the American consulate in Libya was an act of terrorism and says the United States must ...
Former President Clinton urges religious tolerance
Former President Bill Clinton says the followers of Islam shouldn't resort to violence when they hear their faith challenged in an increasingly ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Gay marriage
The issue: On one aspect of whether same-sex couples should have the right to marry, both sides agree: The issue defines what kind of nation we are.
NY a busy battleground of competitive House races
New York state's congressional elections are testing the staying power of Republicans who rode a tea party wave to a House majority two years ago — ...
US, Egypt seek better ties after embassy protests
The United States and Egypt sought Monday to repair ties strained severely by a year-and-a-half of rapid change in the Middle East, culminating in the ...
FBI to investigate officer shooting double-amputee
A caretaker at a group home for the mentally ill called police in the middle of the night because a one-armed, one-legged man in a wheelchair was ...
Appeals court tosses out landmark Katrina ruling
A federal appeals court reversed itself Monday and threw out a judge's landmark ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers was liable for billions of ...
Appeals court tosses landmark Katrina ruling
A federal appeals court has reversed itself and thrown out a judge's landmark ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers is liable for billions of ...
South Carolina voter ID gets judges' scrutiny
Recognizing this year's elections are just a few weeks away, a panel of three federal judges questioned on Monday whether South Carolina should wait ...
Romney assails Obama after US ambassador's death
Mitt Romney led a chorus of Republican criticism of the administration's foreign policy on Monday, accusing President Barack Obama of minimizing the ...
Obama: Libya assault 'wasn't just mob action'
President Barack Obama said Monday "there's no doubt" that the assault of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including ...