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Kenyon College student Ann Shikany couldn't wait to vote for the first time. When she finally got the chance, she waited. And waited. Complete Story...
While the 2008 presidential candidates are taking potshots at each other, some young Americans are taking shots at the entire two-party system.
In a Nov. 29 story about the 1947 U.N. vote to partition British mandate-ruled Palestine, The Associated Press erroneously reported the two-year war that followed the vote cost Israel 10 percent of its population in war dead. According to Israel's Foreign Ministry, 6,373 people, or nearly 1 percent of the Jewish population, were killed during Israel's War of Independence.
It was one of the most dramatic moments in the modern history of the Middle East — the world's nations voting one by one in the U.N. General Assembly to partition the Holy Land into separate Jewish and Arab states.
CBS News writers authorized their union leaders to call a national strike, the Writers Guild of America said Monday, escalating a labor impasse.
Election time is a unique moment for Palestinian refugees in Jordan: A chance to try to improve their lot in their adopted land and press their dreams of returning to homes in what is now Israel.
Visions of Republican elephants and Democratic donkeys are out. Today's young adults don't think red or blue either when they describe the two major political parties.
Voters in Canada's most populous province re-elected the Liberals as the majority party in Ontario's legislature Wednesday.
Shareholders of the nation's only two satellite radio companies are scheduled to vote Nov. 13 on Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s proposed multibillion-dollar acquisition of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.
A woman who faced up to 90 days in jail for registering her dog to vote has agreed to a deal that could remove the charge from her record.
Voters have a chance on Tuesday to return this northern Alabama city to the days of Prohibition.
Many blacks and Muslims in the troubled neighborhoods ringing French cities voted for the first time, saying they were motivated by one desire: to stop law-and-order, tough-on-immigrants Nicolas Sarkozy from becoming president.
A movement to essentially dump the Electoral College and give the presidency to the winner of the nationwide popular vote has been defeated in North Dakota and Montana, after opponents said it would eliminate any influence states may have in presidential contests.
Ohio State's Jim Tressel did not vote in this week's USA Today coaches' poll to avoid the perception of a conflict of interest, a move the newspaper said could jeopardize his future in the selection process.
Voters in a breakaway Georgian region cast ballots Sunday in a referendum that separatist leaders hope will reaffirm their independence bid, but that Georgia has warned will only raise tensions.
The city has stopped offering free flu shots at early voting sites after Republicans alleged it was a ploy by the mayor to lure more Democrats to the polls.
Don't feel like standing in line on Election Day? In Denver, you can get a limo ride to the polls if you take advantage of early voting Saturday.
A group of students at Randolph-Macon Woman's College sued the school Friday, challenging its decision to begin admitting men next fall.
More than 200 Randolph-Macon Woman's College students have suspended their boycott of classes in protest of the decision to allow men to the 115-year-old women's college.
An overwhelming majority of voters in the breakaway Trans-Dniester region approved the separatist government's bid to eventually join Russia, election officials said Monday after balloting that Moldova says it won't recognize.
One vote that Senate candidate Ned Lamont knew he could count on in his Democratic primary victory has been disqualified — his daughter's.
Thousands of Mexicans living in the United States traveled by plane, bus and car to Mexican border cities to vote in Sunday's hotly contested presidential election. For some, it was a futile journey.
"Definitely Maybe," the debut album by Oasis, has beaten the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in a British vote for the greatest album of all time, organizers said Thursday.
Two centuries after lawmakers arrived in the federal city and nearly a hundred years after the last expansion of Congress, a bipartisan group of House members says it's time to give residents of the nation's capital a vote there.
Kris Kobach, a former counsel to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft who is currently the chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out an email on Thur entitled "Kansas Republican Party Year in Review" in which he brags of voter caging. Blue Tide Rising has the goods:
Political Scene has learned that just three presidential candidates had submitted enough signatures as of yesterday to qualify for Rhode Island's primary ballot.
Judge Michael Miller, in a carefully reasoned and balanced opinion, today ordered the release of the final Diebold GEMS tabulator database files from election 2006 primary and general elections .
It has come to my attention that Representative government is not the form Americans want. They abhor being in charge and would rather be led than represented. They will vote for a liar before they will for someone who tells the truth.
Will global warming impact the Iowa caucuses? "Only 9 percent of Iowa sportsmen have made up their minds about which candidate to support in the January caucuses. Even if the preservation of our planet doesn't appeal to them, self-preservation just might."
His presidential-hopeful brother just raised more money in a single day than John Kerry did after he won his Party's nomination in 2004. "He" is Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). His campaign raised $6.2 million Sunday - all online.
Reports from Pakistan seem to confirm what some of us have known all along. Military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has already fixed the elections scheduled for January 8 and that Pakistan's crisis is unlikely to end with the "election" of a new parliament.
With my history, especially my early history on Newsvine, you probably wouldn't expect me to ask this question but it struck me that in certain quarters I and others are slinging around our candidates names pretty freely. I am beginning to wonder whether we should be doing this.
The time has come for all good men to come to the aid of their country. And women. And anyone else who wants to join us. We have stood around too long watching utter incompetents lead this country to near destruction and anarchy.
"Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated!" By Thomas Horn
...On a 222-199 vote, the House approved a measure to require intelligence agents to comply with the Army Field Manual, which meets the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war prisoners and prohibits torture....
A WMUR/CNN poll showed the New York senator leading Obama 31 percent to 30 percent in the northeastern state, which on January 8 holds the first primary vote in the run-up to the November 2008 presidential election, after Iowa's January 3 caucuses.
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The Netherlands delegation to the United Nations General Assembly has been instructed by parliament to change its position and give its support to demands for an international enquiry into the effects of depleted uranium.
As Endless Simmer nears the end of our first calendar year, we're ready to look back at the time that was and honor the people who have inspired out palettes and our keyboards. In that spirit, we present to you the First Annual Endless Simmer Eater of the Year Award.
The other day, voting began for Newsvine's Top 10 Greatest Bands of All Time. Because of so many nominations, I had to cut them into to groups the only allow 3 of the 15 in each group to proceed. Well, those groups have been narrowed down and here are the results: Group 1
The next Dalai Lama could be a woman, it emerged yesterday.
Now that all of the nominations have been sent in here, It is time to begin the voting on 'The Greatest Bands of All-Time'! Here's how it will go down:
From the Des Moines Register: In a jab at Obama's efforts to encourage out-of-state students who attend college in Iowa to caucus, Clinton said the caucuses are only for people who live in this state.
In honor of the 5th anniversary of my original Top 10 Greatest Bands of All Time article, I'm leaving it up to Newsvine to tell the world who the greatest bands are this time. Here's how my list went down: 10. The Doors 9. Van Halen 8. The Police 7. U2
It used to be a given that Chavez could count on the lower class, which represents the majority of the population, to turn the vote his way. Clearly, after logging 49% of the vote for his controversial reform, Chavez still has many of the poor on his side.
Historic vote on global warming A U.S. Senate committee is scheduled for an historic vote on a global warming bill this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday. Environmental groups are planning a flurry of press conferences tomorrow (12/4/2007) to try to influence the vote.
A lot of Americans are fed up with the way our leaders have moved away from basic Constitutional principles. Ron Paul feels it is crucial that we follow it closely.
Code of Honor
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