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Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood
A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan — a move denounced Tuesday by the ...
Brandon Cronenberg is a chip off the bloody block
You wait years for a new Cronenberg movie at Cannes, and then two come along at once. Macabre master David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" screens at the ...
Weekend 'Today' anchor Robach jumps to ABC
Weekend "Today" show anchor Amy Robach is jumping from NBC News to ABC. ABC said Monday that Robach will be a news correspondent based in New York.
Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8
Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, ...
Appeals court upholds key voting rights provision
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting an Alabama county's challenge to the landmark civil ...
House OKs $642 billion defense bill
Ignoring a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House approved a $642 billion defense budget Friday that breaks a deficit-cutting deal ...
FACT CHECK: Romney oversimplifies debt 'inferno'
When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set it ablaze.
Edwards trial judge limits key defense testimony
The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key defense witness who could have raised ...
Court won't order Google-NSA interactions released
A federal appeals court has turned down a Freedom of Information Act request to disclose National Security Agency records about the 2010 cyberattack ...
Gay rights backers see history in Obama's stand
At a birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the ...
McCrory, Dalton win NC governor's primaries
North Carolina's Democratic lieutenant governor and the former Republican mayor of Charlotte will square off in November to succeed one-term ...
Obama targets middle-class voters through airwaves
Targeting middle-class voters, President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a sweeping $25 million, nine-state ad campaign whose centerpiece is a ...
AdWatch: Obama pushes recovery in new ad
TITLE: "Go" LENGTH: 60 seconds AIRING: Broadcast and cable TV stations in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, ...
Ill. official pleads not guilty to stealing $53M
The former comptroller of a small northern Illinois city pleaded not guilty Monday to charges alleging she stole more than $53 million of the public's ...
Who's who? Obama, Romney projecting mirror image
He's a smug, Harvard-trained elitist who doesn't get how regular Americans are struggling these days. More extreme than he lets on, he's keeping his ...
Lugar challenger relies on years of party loyalty
For roughly two decades, Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock toiled in the trenches of the state Republican Party, losing more races than he won.
THE RACE: Hiring slowdown could vex Obama plans
The economy isn't cooperating with President Barack Obama's re-election schedule. For the third year in a row, an early spurt of growth has started ...
PROMISES, PROMISES: So far, no new ones from Obama
Read Barack Obama's lips: no new promises. Not now, at least. It's a long way from May to November, but so far the president's campaign speeches have ...
Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney
Newt Gingrich, the colorful former House speaker and fiery partisan, formally exited the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and vowed to help ...
What happened in Colombia didn't stay in Colombia
The Secret Service does not often get a black eye behind those oh-so-cool sunglasses. It's got a shiner now. The public face of the service is one of ...
Scandal highlights lack of women in Secret Service
Secret Service agents are often portrayed in popular culture as disciplined, unflappable, loyal — and male. A spiraling prostitution scandal that has ...
Feds: Ill. suspect spent stolen millions on horses
The small-town bookkeeper dazzled friends and co-workers with invitations to her immaculate horse ranch and home, where she displayed trophies hauled ...
Gingrich to end presidential campaign next week
Newt Gingrich began taking steps Wednesday to shut down his debt-laden White House bid, setting the stage to endorse one-time rival Mitt Romney next ...
Biden calls Romney foreign policy backward-looking
Vice President Joe Biden is calling the foreign policy outlined by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney shallow, ill-informed and ...
Judges seem wary of overruling tobacco judgment
A bid by tobacco companies to overrule a court judgment that they must do corrective advertising about the dangers of smoking received a chilly ...