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Three major legal cases may influence the 2012 election, but the cases also illustrate how politics shape the Supreme Court.
By NICOLE DEBEVEC ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Republican presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum view Minnesota as a chance of getting some momentum on front-runner Mitt Romney.
ROME — Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has declared he is “stepping aside” from frontline politics, revealing he has no intention of running again for his old post. In his first interview since resigning amid turmoil over financial markets in November, Berlusconi spoke to the Financial Times at his Rome residence on a range of subjects, including what he called a media-inspired ...
Today, some odds and ends from the world of government and politics. In remarks to ...
By NICOLE DEBEVEC United Press International Party caucuses that award delegates on a winner-take-all basis in Missouri will be in March, but Tuesday's Republican primary remained on the book even though it's a non-delegate event.
The big game in politics this weekend is the Nevada Republican caucus. It's Saturday, and Mitt Romney, who won the caucus in 2008, is expected to win again. Romney won big in Florida on Tuesday, and he picked up Donald Trump's endorsement Thursday — although the political significance of that remains unclear. Newt Gingrich is [...]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has chucked partisan politics aside in choosing a potential successor to San Jose U.
The Taliban are not beaten, the peace process is bogged down in internal squabbles and Afghan security forces aren't ready to take control of the nation. Yet the U.S. and its partners are talking about speeding up — rather than slowing down — their exit from the war.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - In less than four years, ANC youth leader Julius Malema turned himself into an outspoken irritant for South Africa's ruling party as he regularly and pointedly reminded its leaders how they had failed the country's poor majority. On Saturday, after an African National Congress appeals panel upheld his suspension for bringing Africa's oldest liberation movement into ...
By NICOLE DEBEVEC United Press International Mitt Romney is looking back to 2008 to move forward in his quest to snare the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
