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Ray Ballentine was waiting for a sign to throw his support to Barack Obama. And when Obama coasted to victory in Iowa's caucuses, there it was — evidence that the senator had the broad racial appeal to get to the White House.
The new president of Texas A&M; University is the first woman and first Hispanic to hold the job.
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said Tuesday that the United States is caving in to Chinese pressure and disregarding democratic values by opposing the island's referendum on its attempt to join the U.N.
A parliamentary session to elect Lebanon's president was postponed for the 11th time Friday, with feuding factions deadlocked over a constitutional amendment and the shape of a future government.
Former Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee was chosen Thursday to lead the four-campus University of Missouri.
Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency — as a Green Party candidate.
The Syrian-backed opposition boycotted a vote to elect a new Lebanese president Monday, delaying parliament's decision for the ninth time and prolonging a bitter yearlong struggle with the Western-backed government.
A senior U.S. diplomat urged Lebanese legislators to elect a new president during Monday's parliamentary session, as increasing tensions between the majority and the opposition made a vote highly unlikely.
Colombia's police chief said Thursday that his forces have foiled an alleged plot to kidnap President Alvaro Uribe's two adult children after monitoring the cell phone calls of jailed guerrillas.
A sharply divided Lebanese parliament again put off its vote for a new president as political bickering Monday still snarled an effort to install the army chief in the post as a compromise candidate.
Taiwan's president pledged Monday he will not declare formal independence for the self-ruled island before his term ends, but he added that a contentious referendum on U.N. membership that has angered Beijing and concerned Washington was out of his hands.
A former president of Liberia was arrested Friday for violating the conditions of his bail while on trial on charges of embezzling $1.3 million in government funds, the prosecutor said.
Parliament on Friday again failed to meet on electing a new president, as Lebanon's factions deadlocked over a tangle of issues, including an amendment to the constitution and the shape of a future government.
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday he would ask for a referendum on whether he should remain president, and challenged opposition governors to do the same.
A leading member of Lebanon's anti-Syria parliament majority accused the Hezbollah-led opposition Tuesday of putting up new obstacles that could hinder the election of the army chief as a compromise president.
A senior Hezbollah official said Saturday that the militant group holds army commander Michel Suleiman in high regard, further improving his chances of becoming Lebanon's next president and averting a political crisis.
Guyana's former first lady on Wednesday appealed to her fellow citizens to lend her a car to carry out charitable work, complaining she currently has to walk or take a bus.
Lebanon's top Christian opposition leader said Thursday he will back the army chief as a compromise president, increasing the chances for a deal to end Lebanon's political deadlock.
Plagued by turmoil at the top, the American Red Cross ousted its president, Mark Everson, on Tuesday for engaging in a "personal relationship" with one of his subordinates. He took the challenging job just six months ago.
Uzbekistan's president has registered as a candidate in next month's election, the electoral commission said Monday, even though the constitution bars him from seeking a third consecutive term.
The largest state Baptist convention in the nation elected its first female president on Monday.
When Alberto Fujimori abandoned the presidency in November 2000, faxing his resignation from Japan, his ancestral homeland, thousands of Peruvians celebrated the end of an increasingly oppressive regime that was clinging to power in constitutionally questionable ways.
Fujimori is admired as well as hated in Peru. Here's how Peruvians generally see the upside and the downside of his 10-year presidency:
As Peru heads into the most sensational trial in its history, the country is being taken back 16 years to the night when hooded men stormed a barbecue in a Lima tenement courtyard and machine-gunned the crowd, killing 15 people including an 8-year-old boy.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won New Hampshire's Democratic primary Tuesday night, pulling out a stunning victory over Sen. Barack Obama in a contest that she had been forecast to lose.
Arizona Sen. John McCain won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, completing a remarkable comeback and climbing back into contention for the Republican presidential nomination. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton dueled with Sen. Barack Obama in an unexpectedly tight Democratic race.
Well, first of all congratulations to Hillary Clinton. Next, two questions: 1) How did the public, the Clinton internal and Obama internal polls have Clinton losing when it is clear now that Clinton won New Hampshire?
Polls open in Walpole, NH, and Political Lunch is there to report. Rob and Will talk to some of the earliest voters and predict the outcome of tonight's contest.
Now that the Presidential primaries are underway I can start paying close attention to all the candidates running to be the most powerful person in the world.
There are reports now that veterans of Bill Clinton's winning presidential campaigns from the 1990's, James Carrville and Paul Begala, will be joining the Clinton campaign the day after the New Hampshire primary.
The Democratic National Committee is criticizing Republican candidates running for president by saying they would offer the country a "third Bush term" on the economy.
New Hampshire votes on Tuesday and the results could change the whole landscape of the race; Will Hillary Clinton make a comeback, Will Obama be crowned? Is Edward Dead? Van McCain win? Will Romney lose again? Can Ron Paul get over 10%? Did Giuliani make a huge mistake skipping t …
Voters Nationwide can cast their vote online today for Hillary Clinton or Brack Obama. Our Polls are very accurate at picking the next president of the United States.
Her latest online name is "florkey" and she appears to be your typical online teenage blogger: posting photos of herself and her friends goofing around in short, short skirts or trying to look cool while sipping drinks; she types out the lyrics to her favorite pop hits (at one po …
From Barack Obama's win in Iowa just five days ago up to this minute, the landscape of the presidential nomination race for both parties has changed dramatically and, in great measure, it has changed because of him.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — It has the feel and look of a transformative moment, this tidal wave of young voters buoying the disparate campaigns of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.
17 mostly moderate Republicans and Democrats—as well as one conspicuous, recently declared independent who is the mayor of New York City—called on the leading presidential candidates to "stop politics as usual," as the group's leader, former Sen.
I am tired of not hearing the true voice of Dennis Kucinich challenging media complicity in criminal fraud, insurance company collusion to exclude more sick kids from care, the Halliburtons of the world stoking war to enrich their pockets, and the crazy administration with bankro …
Today on The Lunch, Rob and Will look at where things stand in New Hampshire and prepare to report tomorrow live from the Granite State.
Paddy Power, which calls itself Ireland's largest bookmaker, is today claiming that the Democratic nomination battle is already truly over and are already paying out on Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois to be the successful Democratic nominee.
In tonight's Fox News GOP presidential forum, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to argue that if elected president, he will eliminate "wasteful spending." As evidence, he claimed that he has never asked for an earmark for his state of Arizona:
Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!
In almost poetic lockstep, Republican and Democratic caucus voters in Iowa rejected the political establishment. In picking Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama, they selected candidates who, at this time last year, conventional wisdom would have deemed inconceivable.
Columnists and editorial writers and other assorted navel-gazing types are always calling for a presidential candidate who'd do the right thing, who'd stay positive, who'd refuse to be dragged down the muddy road by his hot-shot advisers even while an opponent is plastering him w …
A USA Today/Gallup poll said Obama had opened up a 13-point lead over Clinton in New Hampshire, 41 percent to 28 percent, to 19 percent for former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, slipping further behind her chief rival in the Democratic primary here, has taken direct control over her strategy and message as she scrambles to block the ascent of Sen. Barack Obama.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday sought to slow the momentum of Senator Barack Obama heading into the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday by pointedly challenging his voting record and the assertion that he is the only candidate who would bring about change.
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to marry his new girlfriend, the former model turned pop singer Carla Bruni, a French newspaper reported Sunday, claiming a wedding was "imminent."
If elected president, Barack Obama would boost foreign language and nation-building training for all troops, John Edwards would create a deployable reserve corps of civilian experts, and Fred Thompson would boost the Army to 775,000 soldiers.
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