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WASHINGTON (AP) - Bernie Sanders came to Washington as an activist, not a legislator.
The Democratic presidential candidate has preferred rabble-rousing to the schmoozing required to get bills passed. So it's not surprising that his 25-year congress...
Updated: Feb 21, 2016 at 02:31 PM
LONDON (AP) - When national soccer leaders enter FIFA's secret voting booths to select a president on Friday, Sepp Blatter won't be an option for the first time in 22 years.
Five candidates are seeking the job of running world soccer and showing cri...
Updated: Feb 20, 2016 at 11:31 PM
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) - Niger's president will stand for re-election Sunday in a climate made tense by Islamic extremist threats and complaints about a crackdown on dissent.
For more than a year, Niger's southeast has been hit by cross-border raids by ...
Updated: Feb 21, 2016 at 07:48 AM
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Seeking an edge, Hillary Clinton courted voters throughout Las Vegas' sprawling population centers on Friday while rival Bernie Sanders barnstormed across northern Nevada in search of delegates in the state's high-stakes Democratic ...
Published: Feb 20, 2016 at 07:00 AM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - George W. Bush never mentioned Donald Trump. But with his folksy touch, the former president unleashed a tough takedown of the billionaire businessman who has upended a Republican Party his family has long led.
"I understand ...
Updated: Feb 16, 2016 at 01:03 PM
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Just for a moment, Marco Rubio stops trying to explain what went wrong in New Hampshire. He needs to find out why Dominick is crying.
"She pinched me," the teary 8-year-old tells his father, who's in the midst of an interview...
Updated: Feb 12, 2016 at 03:31 PM
Candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Lake County state's attorney have very different ideas how to address wrongful convictions that have plagued the office in recent years.
Michael Perillo Jr., a 60-year-old attorney from Grayslake...
Updated: Feb 12, 2016 at 05:21 PM
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Facing the biggest test of his presidential bid, Marco Rubio promised a more aggressive approach in what his team expects to become an extended Republican nomination fight that could result in a brokered national convention....
Updated: Feb 10, 2016 at 02:31 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 30 years ago, Donald Trump bought a franchise in the upstart United States Football League. He then led his fellow owners to sue the NFL in a high-stakes antitrust case.
The head-on challenge and his ownership of the New ...
Updated: Feb 08, 2016 at 11:00 AM
FLINT, Mich. (AP) - Taking a detour from New Hampshire's campaign trail, Hillary Clinton said Sunday that a water crisis in a Michigan city was "immoral" and demanded that Congress approve $200 million in emergency aid to address the community's bat...
Updated: Feb 07, 2016 at 07:01 PM