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NEW YORK -- Having long been one of the proud tough guys of New York politics, Andrew Cuomo, the state's attorney general, finds himself with a Republican opponent in this...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States: From The Associated Press On Murdoch's view on immigration: Nobody, of course, actually expected this Congress to deal seriously with...

Researchers announced Monday they had injected embryonic stem cells into a patient suffering from a spinal cord injury. It marked the world's first human clinical trial of a procedure developed...

NEW YORK -- Having long been one of the proud tough guys of New York politics, Andrew Cuomo, the state's attorney general, finds himself with a Republican opponent in this...

WASHINGTON -- I'm not a witch. But if I were, the first spell I'd cast would be to turn House Minority Leader John Boehner into British Prime Minister David Cameron...

I was preparing to applaud the Obama administration and specifically Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for announcing the deportation of a record number of criminal aliens last year. According to...

Almost like an apparition, Jimmy Carter stalks Barack Obama. The former president has published yet another book, his 25th, which has been greeted with some scorn and plenty of ridicule...

WASHINGTON -- The 2010 election is turning into a class war. The wealthy and the powerful started it. This is a strange development. President Obama, after all, has been working...

SAN DIEGO -- From poll taxes to literacy tests to outright voter intimidation, Americans have a long history of trying to suppress the turnout of Latino voters. It turns out...

An excerpt from recent Minnesota editorials: On protecting your family: Get the lead out School-age kids across the country are engaged in a host of activities about fire prevention, smoke...

An excerpt from recent Minnesota editorials: On keeping partisanship out of our redistricting: Amid all the debate over state budget deficits, job creation, transportation and other campaign topics, one important...

This is supposed to be the year of the (Republican) woman. It is most certainly the year of millionaire business execs no one ever heard of a month or two...

I still ride a bike. I do 12 miles, several days a week, and as I do so I listen to music -- the Pandora service on my iPhone. I...

The House Minority Leader sits in his spacious Capitol Hill office contemplating an upgrade to larger digs should his party live up to expectations and win a majority of congressional...

WASHINGTON -- Here is another piece of conventional wisdom about this year's election that is being rendered patently false. It's been said over and over that no Democrats are running...