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| • Experts call for a new green revolution to end world food crisis |
| WASHINGTON -- The world's deep hunger crisis could go on for years, and in the long run it'll take a new scientific agricultural revolution to help farmers in the poorest countries produce enough food, experts said Wednesday at congressional hearings. |
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| • Slideshow: Presidential candidates' feasting |
| StandardNET Extra: See photos of presidential candidates campaigning with foody. |
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 |
| • Applicants for Citizenship Take To the Courts to Force Action |
| WASHINGTON -- Mark Sapir got fed up waiting years for immigration officials to act on his citizenship application. So the native of Russia did the most American thing he could think of: He filed a lawsuit. |
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 |
| • White House Can't Find Backup E-Mail Files |
| WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has not found disaster backup files for White House e-mails from a three-month time period in 2003, according to court documents filed this week, raising the possibility that messages sent before and after the invasion of Iraq may never be recovered. |
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| • Clinton Losing Traction in Two Key States, Poll Finds |
| WASHINGTON -- With three crucial Democratic primaries looming, Hillary Rodham Clinton might not be headed toward the victories she needs to jump-start her presidential bid -- even in Pennsylvania, the state that was supposed to be her ace in the hole, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. |
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
| • Against McCain, Clinton bests Obama in swing-state polls |
| WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton is stronger than Barack Obama when pitted against John McCain, according to new polls of three major states that tend to swing between Democrats and Republicans in November elections. |
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| • McCain rejects Bush's foreign-policy tactics, but embraces his goals |
| WASHINGTON -- In a major speech, Sen. John McCain distanced himself Wednesday from President Bush's foreign-policy tactics but embraced Bush's foreign-policy goals. |
| • Candidates battle new foes: Stress and fatigue |
| WASHINGTON -- Chris Carmichael knows a thing or two about endurance. He rode in the Olympics and coached a certain Lance Armstrong to seven consecutive Tour de France wins. The other day, he found himself watching two competitors on television and thinking, "Man, this is just incredibly grueling." |
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| • Real, not 'virtual,' fence called for to stop illegal immigrants |
| WASHINGTON -- As a farmer, Rep. Sam Graves says, he knows a thing or two about fences. And the Missouri Republican says he knows this for sure: It makes no sense to try to keep out illegal immigrants by building a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexico border. |
Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| • Protesters by the dozens |
| WASHINGTON -- To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the War Resisters League, Code Pink and other antiwar groups vowed to "shut down the IRS" with a "blockade" outside the agency's headquarters Wednesday. |
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| • Supreme Court upholds Washington state's top-two' primary |
| WASHINGTON -- Washington state's "top-two" primary was upheld 7-2 by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, but the justices seemed to leave the door ajar for additional legal challenges. |
| • Obama's speech on race may have saved his campaign |
| WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama may have righted his shaken presidential campaign with his bold speech on race Tuesday, political analysts said. |
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
| • Campaigns spar over importance of Obama primary wins in GOP states |
| WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's primary victory in Mississippi on Tuesday raises a question: If a Democrat wins a Democratic primary in a Republican state, does it make a sound that can be heard in the fall? |
| • Drug Firms Woo Democrats, Helping Defeat Their Bills |
| WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceutical industry, long an ally of Republicans, has increasingly worked itself into the good graces of the Democratic Party and by doing so has helped block the Democrats' top prescription-drug initiatives. |
Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| • South Carolina's Sanford joins shortlist of possible McCain running mates |
| CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- South Carolina's maverick Gov. Mark Sanford is getting the buzz, if not necessarily the love, over the possibility he could become John McCain's running mate. |
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 |
| • CIA Director Confirms Use of Waterboarding |
WASHINGTON -- CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said publicly for the first time Tuesday that his agency had used the harsh interrogation technique known as "waterboarding" on three al-Qaida suspects, and he testified that depriving the agency of coercive methods would "increase the danger to America." |
Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| • What's next for Edwards? |
| RALEIGH, N.C. -- So what's next for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards? Edwards has given no indication, but that hasn't stopped speculation. |
| • Giuliani's exit speeded McCain endorsement, Schwarzenegger says |
| LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday morning that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's departure from the presidential race led to his endorsement of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who he called a "fantastic, outstanding public servant." |
| • Canada-United States entry rules change |
| WASHINGTON -- New federal rules taking effect Thursday that will make it harder to cross the Canadian border into the United States may produce confusion and delay without increasing national security, according to lawmakers and border-region officials. |
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| • Mukasey Won't Declare Waterboarding Illegal |
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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on Tuesday left open the possibility that use of an interrogation method known as waterboarding could be legal in certain cases under U.S. and international law. |
| • House extends eavesdropping law for 2 weeks while Senate seeks swift passage of FISA bill |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Tuesday voted to give two more weeks of life to a law that allows the government more freedom to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists inside the United States, an attempt to buy the logjammed Senate time to pass a bill to replace it. |
Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| • Stopping fraud, or voters? Photo ID laws incite biggest voting legal battle since Bush v. Gore |
| There's the poor, 32-year-old mother of seven who says it would cost her at least $50 to vote in person. There's also the 92-year-old woman who's voted for decades in the same polling place, but now can't vote there because she let her driver's license expire when her eyesight began to fail. |
| • Agencies digitizing documents |
| WASHINGTON -- They operate in different parts of the government, but both have decided to go digital and phase out their signature paper products |
| • Obama leading Clinton in S.C. amid racial divide, poll finds |
| WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton in South Carolina, where their increasingly bitter rivalry has opened a deep racial divide among Democrats days before the party's first primary in the South on Saturday, according to a new McClatchy-MSNBC poll. |
| • Candidates traverse 'the United States of Florida' |
| WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Sen. John McCain, the Republican who arrived in Florida with the most momentum from early primary victories, drew a couple hundred people to a "town hall" meeting Thursday in the glittery Palm Beach County Convention Center. |
Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| • For new voters, Democrats find race is not the issue |
| SAN FRANCISCO -- The front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination realized something in the past week: Talking clumsily about race in America is the quickest way to turn off new voters and silence the buzz generated in the early weeks of the campaign. |
| • Thompson looks to South Carolina for a good showing |
| NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Fred Thompson likes to fire up the crowds at his campaign stops across South Carolina by declaring that he's "drawing a line in the sand" in their home state. |
Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| • Michigan getting less attention from candidates than hoped |
| ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- No more cozy gatherings in living rooms, no more up-close-and-personal encounters with the candidates. |
| • Do political endorsements matter? |
| CHICAGO -- Word trickles out from a campaign that a "major endorsement" is expected. Then the name of the endorser is breathlessly leaked. Finally the endorser emerges -- at a rally, conference call, or simply by releasing a statement -- praising the candidate as the finest American leader since George Washington. |
Thursday, January 3, 2008 |
| • Rep. Lantos diagnosed with cancer, but says he'll finish term |
| WASHINGTON -- California Rep. Tom Lantos' decision to retire at the end of this year as he battles cancer of the esophagus will bring an end to an unlikely political career that took him from a daring escape from Nazi-controlled Hungary to an economics professorship at San Francisco State University to the chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. |
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