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Chapter & Verse Catching up with award-winning LBJ biographer Robert Caro
Robert Caro's chronicle of LBJ's rise to the presidency has become the gold standard for presidential biographies.
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Decoder Wire Election 2012: Has Nate Silver destroyed punditry?
Some pundits were woefully inaccurate in their Election 2012 predictions, but those who relied on data – like Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog – did well. 'Moneyball' has come to punditry.
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Decoder Wire Mitt Romney changes his strategy. Why the shift now? (+video)
A top Mitt Romney aide says the GOP presidential nominee plans to be more specific about his policy plans, now that more voters are paying attention to the race. But there is probably more to the move than that.
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Decoder Wire Is Ron Paul getting a raw deal from the RNC?
Ahead of the GOP convention next week, former GOP presidential contender Ron Paul and Republican National Committee (on behalf of Mitt Romney) are near a deal over whose delegates will get seated from the states of Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Maine.
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Turkey takes lead in rebuilding Somalia
Turkish workers have flooded Somalia - a country many have long considered too dangerous to work in - to rebuild it and burnish Ankara's image as a regional player and powerful force in the Islamic world.
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It's official: with Texas win, Romney is the nominee
The GOP candidate clinched the nomination with more than the 1144 delegates required to win the nomination.
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Decoder Wire Are some Ron Paul supporters going rogue?
In Nevada's Clark County, Ron Paul supporters are still in the fight, even though their man has said he won't campaign in any more GOP primaries. They scolded the Republican National Committee chief this week.
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Decoder Wire Why Ron Paul's big wins in Maine and Nevada matter (+video)
When Ron Paul delegates show up at the Republican National Convention in August, they may be strong enough to throw the event into disarray – just at the moment Mitt Romney needs to show the GOP united behind him.
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Stand Your Ground law: Florida review panel to draw wide scrutiny
Florida's review of its controversial Stand Your Ground law began Tuesday. Spurred by the Trayvon Martin shooting, it is the first comprehensive look at the effect of such laws, which 24 other states have copied.
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Why Rick Santorum has only a 1 percent chance of stopping Mitt Romney
For Rick Santorum, the only shot at the nomination would be to win a contested GOP convention. But April should be good for Mitt Romney, leaving Santorum with only the slimmest of hopes, a delegate-math expert says.
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The Vote Why Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum may both win in Michigan
Complex rules for allocating convention delegates mean the winner of Tuesday's Michigan primary, probably Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, is likely to share the spoils with the runners-up.
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The Vote Ron Paul's secret ninja strategy for Maine caucuses
Ron Paul has a strategy for winning more delegates than caucus results in Maine, Colorado, and elsewhere suggest he would. Patience, grasshopper, and we will explain it to you.
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Snakes in the grass: Is the Burmese Python wiping out Everglades mammals?
Burmese Python pets that escaped or were released have proliferated in the Everglades. A recent study suggests they are behind the sharp drop in the population of raccoons and other mammals.
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Huge pythons annihilating Everglades wildlife, report scientists (+video)
Pythons that have entered the Everglades after escaping or being released by pet owners are destroying the parks native mammal populations, a new report has found.
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The Vote Why Ron Paul is shivering in Maine instead of cavorting in Florida
The other three GOP presidential candidates are stumping in Florida ahead of the Jan. 31 primary, a winner-take-all-delegates affair. But not Ron Paul. Here's why he's up in Maine.
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Somalia's Al Shabab Islamists are on the run
But the Somali officials, backed by international forces, are too busy fighting among themselves to govern.
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Tunisia elections face unexpected obstacle: youth apathy
The fervor of Tunisia's youth-led revolution, which sparked subsequent uprisings in the region, has been surprisingly absent ahead of Tunisia's elections this weekend.
10/21/2011 01:40 pm -
The Vote Florida is poised to move GOP primary ahead of all others. How will it change the race?
It appears Florida is set to reschedule its 2012 Republican presidential primary for Jan. 31 – ahead of all other states and thrusting it into a potentially critical role in the GOP nomination race.
09/28/2011 07:35 pm -
Global News Blog Good Reads: Somalia's famine, India's sex selection, and Twitter wars
Today's picks warn that Somalia's famine is about to get worse, give an inside look at sex-selection in India, and poke fun at that Twitter war between Western peacekeepers and the Taliban.
09/16/2011 10:47 am -
Will Florida's Burmese pythons move north? How far?
Scientists brought 10 Burmese pythons to South Carolina to test the validity of one study that said the snakes could survive as far north as Washington, D.C.
10/24/2010 08:44 pm -
China-Taiwan flight deal marks further thaw in ties
The agreement, made during the first formal talks since 1999, will allow weekend charter flights starting in July. Critics say that Taiwan has made too many concessions too quickly.
06/14/2008 01:00 am -
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03/28/2008 01:00 am -
Seneca Falls: The story of the women who changed the world
A historian looks at the early women's rights movement and the reformers America has forgotten.
02/05/2008 12:00 am
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