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Aging anti-war sculpture prompts explosive debate
For decades the big, black mass of chain link that's piled up outside the Civic Center has alternately awed and inspired, annoyed and confounded, and, ...
Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm dies at 95
Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentleman's Agreement" but whose last ...
Poles honor Reagan, John Paul II with new statue
Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring two men widely credited in this ...
US economy adds 80,000 jobs in another weak month
The American job machine has jammed. Again. The economy added only 80,000 jobs in June, the government said Friday, erasing any doubt that the United ...
Tepid jobs data set a tone for presidential debate
Disappointing job growth jolted the presidential campaign four months before Election Day, and the candidates quickly put their vastly different views ...
Scalia's critics fault justice over politics
Justice Antonin Scalia ended his 26th year on the Supreme Court with a string of losses in the term's biggest cases and criticism that he crossed a ...
THE RACE: Obama and Romney taking summer breaks
For the past few days, President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney have been mostly out of sight if not exactly out of mind. Romney has ...
Justice won't prosecute Holder for contempt
The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation ...
The history of the US health care reform effort
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Barack Obama's health care law follows a century of debate over what role the government should play ...
US health care reform efforts through history
The Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law follows a century of debate over what role the government ...
Federal court upholds EPA's global warming rules
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming, handing down perhaps the ...
Famous handshakes that brought message of peace
Queen Elizabeth II and former Provisional Irish Republican Army leader Martin McGuinness are expected to shake hands in a delicately choreographed ...
THE RACE: Obama can't count on Fed for help
President Barack Obama probably shouldn't look to the Federal Reserve for political help in this election year. Under Chairman Ben Bernanke, the ...
House panel boosts rural air service subsidies
Tea party lawmakers from rural areas were among those fighting the hardest to preserve taxpayer subsidies for airline flights into and out of small ...
Man claims to be missing US Air Force deserter
Nearly 28 years after David Hemler deserted his U.S. Air Force post in Germany, a man claiming to be the missing American has appeared in Sweden, ...
Romney looks to Midwest's working class for gains
Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is pushing to win a band of Midwestern states that voted for President Barack Obama four years ago and ...
Fair shot or freedom? Words define campaign 2012
If sometimes it seems like the two candidates for president are speaking different languages, the reason is simple: They are. President Barack Obama ...
Early outrage over AIDS crisis reaches DC stage
Before there was a test, before it had a name and before there was any way to know if AIDS was spread through the air, touch or bodily fluids, there ...
Military star power endorses high seas treaty
Proponents of a treaty governing the high seas rolled out military star power Thursday to try to lift the prospects for a long-spurned pact that faces ...