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MADISON, Wis. — Supporters of an unprecedented effort to oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from office said they will turn in more than enough signatures Tuesday to force the Republican into a recall election barely a year into his first term.
Walker...
Updated: Jan 17, 2012 at 07:38 AM
KEENE, N.H. — There’s a question that Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman loves to pop out from time to time as he campaigns across New Hampshire: “What language do you want me to answer in?”
Tossing out a sentence or two in Mandarin give...
Updated: Jan 08, 2012 at 09:03 PM
Feeling the need to close the talent gap between themselves and their NFC North rivals in Green Bay and Detroit, Bears team president and CEO Ted Phillips on Tuesday fired general manager Jerry Angelo.
“It's my decision,” Phillips said. “It has the ...
Updated: Jan 04, 2012 at 09:11 PM
LONDON — Rupert Murdoch has begun the new year by setting up in a new field of communications — he’s started tweeting.
The media mogul, who is recovering from perhaps his most difficult year in the business, is posting on Twitter under the handle ru...
Updated: Jan 03, 2012 at 06:14 AM
WASHINGTON — Bullish yet wary, President Barack Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate a recovery that still has not put millions back to work.
His Republican rivals, in the face of late-arriving econom...
Updated: Jan 02, 2012 at 09:49 AM
Editor's note: Last in a series profiling Republican presidential candidates.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa #8212; Mitt Romney cruises down two-lane blacktops, past combines churning up clouds of dust harvesting corn, on his way to one more gathering, on...
Updated: Dec 26, 2011 at 12:33 AM
Editor’s note: Fifth in a series of profiles of GOP candidates
WASHINGTON — In mid-1970 an unusual job application landed in the stack of resumes at West Georgia College.
A young man finishing up his Ph.D. and looking for his first teaching job ditc...
Updated: Dec 18, 2011 at 04:35 PM
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Long before he discovered Friedrich Hayek and other free-market economists, Ron Paul got a lesson in sound money from his oldest brother, Bill.
It was the height of World War II, and the Paul boys were laying aside quarters from t...
Updated: Dec 11, 2011 at 07:46 AM
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Thomas Robinson scored 21 points, Elijah Johnson added 15 and No. 13 Kansas never trailed in a 78-67 victory Saturday over second-ranked Ohio State, which had to play without star forward Jared Sullinger due to an injury.
Freshman f...
Updated: Dec 10, 2011 at 10:57 PM
Third in a series of profiles on GOP candidates
ON THE ROAD TO ESTHERVILLE, Iowa — The cornfields edging two-lane Iowa Highway 9 fade to a sunbaked blur as Rep. Michele Bachmann’s blue-and-white campaign coach rolls on, bound for a “town hall” ...
Updated: Dec 05, 2011 at 04:43 PM