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WASHINGTON — John F. Kerry and Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s likely picks to head his second-term national security cabinet, have much in common, including decorated service in Vietnam and opposition to the Iraq war.
Perhaps more important, they al...
Updated: Dec 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM
Encouraged by their party’s successes during the presidential election, DuPage Democrats are taking aim at the Republican stranglehold on the county’s nine township governments.
The various GOP and Democratic township organizations this week chose t...
Updated: Dec 06, 2012 at 06:03 PM
WASHINGTON — Paul Ryan is getting his groove back.
A month after the GOP’s presidential ticket lost an election, the party’s vice presidential nominee finds himself comfortably back in his political wheelhouse on Capitol Hill and in the thick of a d...
Updated: Dec 04, 2012 at 11:06 AM
BOSTON — Mitt Romney’s shadow looms over a Republican Party in disarray.
The face of the GOP for much of the last year, the failed presidential candidate has been a virtual ghost since his defeat Nov. 6. He has quietly weathered the fallout of the c...
Updated: Dec 01, 2012 at 05:53 PM
NEW YORK — Word of a settlement agreement between former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her could bring an end to a saga that has tarnished Strauss-Kahn’s reputation, ended...
Updated: Nov 30, 2012 at 01:15 PM
WASHINGTON — When the next Congress cranks up in January, there will be more women, many new faces and 11 fewer Tea Party-backed House Republicans from the class of 2010 who sought a second term.
Overriding those changes, though, is a thinning of pr...
Updated: Nov 26, 2012 at 02:41 PM
Stan Way, a Latter-day Saint from Jasper, Ala., had just finished dinner out with some Mormon missionaries when he noticed a car slowing as it approached.
The missionaries were wearing the traditional white shirts and dark ties that identify them a...
Updated: Nov 18, 2012 at 10:09 PM
MANHATTAN, Kan. — The college football landscape has changed dramatically since 1998.
The legacy of Joe Paterno is viewed far differently now. The system for deciding a national champion has been massaged. The very rules of the game, even some alter...
Updated: Nov 15, 2012 at 05:34 PM
WASHINGTON — Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax.
On Tuesday, a conservative think tank held discussions about it while a more liberal think tank released a...
Updated: Nov 13, 2012 at 07:35 PM
Even before the final vote counts were in, Republicans were turning their eyes toward 2014, Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady said.
Party leaders see Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's low approval ratings — and the state's dismal finances — as a chance for...
Updated: Nov 12, 2012 at 05:23 PM