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Video of Bryan Farnsworth's rant in Tremonton

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 4:54pm

See a video of Bryan Farnsworth's rant in Tremonton. Bryan Farnsworth, a declared candidate in Utah's 1st Congressional District, was kept out of the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner after his speech on Saturday night.

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Harrisville has new mayor pro tem

Amber Marcusen Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 10:28pm

HARRISVILLE — Bruce Richins was appointed to be Harrisville’s new mayor pro tem.

Richins will serve as mayor pro tem for a one-year term.

The mayor pro tem acts as a replacement mayor should the mayor be unavailable, or as a provisional replacement should the mayor leave office mid-term.

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Council examines equality of county voting precincts

Deanne Winterton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 10:22pm

MORGAN — When the Morgan County Council approved new voting district boundaries by a narrow vote, the five voting districts were relatively equal, each with between 1,064 voters and 1,086 voters.

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Large political demonstration in Mexico.

Mexico also faces contentious presidential election

Salvador Guerrero Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 10:52am

WASHINGTON -- The United States isn't the only country facing a contentious presidential election this year.

Mexico will elect a new president in July, and some experts think the National Action Party (PAN) will be ousted from office by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which held power for 71 years before the PAN took over in 2000.

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In this Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011 file photo, pro-reform leader and Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his home in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Egypt reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 that he won't run for president to protest military rule. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Egypt’s ElBaradei ends presidential bid in protest

Sarah El Deeb The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 4:14pm

CAIRO — Egypt’s reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei withdrew from the presidential race Saturday, saying a fair election is impossible under the military’s grip nearly a year after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster. Many fear that the ruling generals will push through a candidate of their own to preserve their power.

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Higginson returns to Bountiful council

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 10:21pm

BOUNTIFUL -- The pain of losing a re-election bid in 2007 almost kept this city's newest council member from re-entering the political arena.

Richard Higginson took the oath of office Tuesday, along with incumbents Beth Holbrook and Marc Knight, as a newly configured council was established.

For Higginson the oath represents a return to something he thought he had left behind.

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(Charlie Neibergall/The Associated Press) Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is hugged by his wife, Ann, during a Romney for President Iowa Caucus night rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday.

Romney wins by a whisker in Iowa

David Espo, Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 8:46am

DES MOINES, Iowa — Mitt Romney eked out a minuscule 8-vote victory over Rick Santorum in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses, the state party chairman said early Wednesday, ringing down the curtain on an improbable first act in the campaign to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama in the fall.

Appearing hours after the caucuses had ended, Matt Strawn said Romney had 30,015 votes, to 30,007 for Santorum, whose late surge carried him to a near win.

Even before his victory was announced, Romney looked past his GOP rivals and took aim at Obama. "The gap between his promises four years ago and his performance is as great as anything I've ever seen in my life," he told supporters in Iowa's capital city.

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Davis voting precincts lack, well, voters

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, December 25, 2011 - 8:15am

FARMINGTON -- Two of Davis County's 31 newly proposed voting precincts are in the middle of the Great Salt Lake.

Another 12 precincts have no registered voters in them because the precinct borders encompass only commercial, industrial or undeveloped properties.

Another 14 proposed precincts are home to 100 or fewer registered voters, Davis County Election Coordinator Pat Beckstead said.

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Bountiful man returns to council after spending more than other candidates

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, December 23, 2011 - 12:13am

BOUNTIFUL -- A former city councilman's successful bid to regain a seat he lost four years ago proved to be the most costly in the race, financial disclosures show.

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(CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/The Associated Press) Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, right, during the Republican debate, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. Attacked as a lifelong Washington insider, Gingrich parried criticism from Mitt Romney Saturday night, telling the former Massachusetts governor, “The only reason you didn’t become a career politician is because you lost to Teddy Kennedy in 1994.”

Gingrich, Romney begin final pitches

Kasie Hunt, Shannon McCaffrey The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 3:58pm

WASHINGTON — Republican president hopeful Newt Gingrich doubled down on his criticism of federal judges and the Supreme Court on Sunday as chief rival Mitt Romney defended his record against likely Democratic attacks. With close to two weeks before GOP voters start choosing their nominee, Gingrich is courting the conservative primary voters he will need to win in Iowa and sustain his campaign against Romney, whose superior organization and pile of cash has him seeming ever more confident as he looks ahead to the general election.

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(ALEXEI DRUZHININ/The Associated Press) In this Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, looks on as Mikhail Prokhorov signs an agreement, during a Franco-Russian meeting in Rambouillet, France. Prokhorov, one of Russia’s richest tycoons and the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, said Monday Dec. 12, 2011, he will run against Putin in the March presidential election.

NJ Nets owner wants to buy Russia media holding

Nataliya Vasilyeva The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 7:29am

MOSCOW — The billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets running for the Russian presidency against Vladimir Putin is expected to make a formal offer to buy a leading media holding Wednesday, his representative said.

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Coin toss decides election in Alta

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 9:13am

ALTA -- A coin is what ultimately decided who's filling a seat on the council of a small Utah ski town.

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(ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/The Associated Press) Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, with the emblem of the United Russia party in the background, visits the United Russia party headquarters in Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2011. Exit polls cited by Russian state television showed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party with less than 50 percent of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, a significant drop reflecting Russians’ growing weariness with his rule.

Putin’s party barely hangs onto its majority

Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 5, 2011 - 8:36am

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party saw its majority in Russia’s parliament weaken sharply, according to preliminary election results released Monday, a humiliating setback for the man who has steadily tightened his grip on the nation for nearly 12 years.

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(SERGEY PONOMAREV/The Associated Press) Pro-Kremlin supporters march after a rally in downtown Moscow, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s and President Dmitry Medvedev’s party saw its majority in Russia’s parliament weaken sharply, according to preliminary results released Monday.

Clinton cites serious concerns in Russia voting

Anne Gearan The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 5, 2011 - 8:12am

BONN, Germany — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. has “’serious concerns” about the conduct of Russia’s parlimentary elections.

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(JULIE JACOBSON/The Associated Press) Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., greets young Hispanic voters at a Nevada Democratic Party “Pledge to Caucus” event, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011, in Las Vegas. Campaign staff and volunteers for President Barack Obama are pushing the Hispanic vote in swing states like Nevada, which can help congressional candidates like Berkley in her run for re-election.

McCain: Hispanic vote ‘up for grabs’

Anne Flaherty The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 4:07pm

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the potentially powerful Hispanic vote in the upcoming presidential election remains “up for grabs” because neither President Barack Obama nor Republicans have convinced these voters that they are on their side.

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