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Jacques Rogge easily won re-election as president of the International Olympic Committee on Friday for a final four-year term.
When former schools superintendent George Sleeman went to prison for embezzlement, folks here figured they had seen the last of him.
Voters in the small northeastern Missouri town of Winfield re-elected their mayor for a fourth term on Tuesday, about a month after his death.
A county treasurer who lost her bid for a fourth term last week to a 20-year-old Dartmouth College student from Montana blames her failed candidacy on "brainwashed college kids."
Promises and proposals from Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama:
For all Barack Obama's talk about change, there are signs that in style — if not substance — a new White House under Democrat Obama would operate much like the current one under President Bush.
Too many of our elected officials seem out of touch - St. Petersburg TimesBob Herbert's piece questioning whether President Barack Obama understands the gravity of the economic and job crisis was certainly on the mark.
In view of the numerous comments my column gets whenever it posts anything on the president, with the usual vitriol from those who hate him, and defence from those who really like him, I thought I would do something different today.
Too many to countChris you should have bought a few different flags and being a journalist sought audience at the courts of Mr Zardari, Mr Gilani and Mr Malik. Then asked them do we need a "National Flag'' ? why not replace it with the tri-color of PPP and have three faces on the flag.
Liz Cheney: U.S. needs commander, not community organizer Red State, a big conservative blog on the model of Daily Kos, had its first big bloggers' gathering this past weekend. They even had some fairly big names in the world of Republican politics come speak -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Rep.
Dead mayor re-elected by US townVoters in a small town in the US state of Missouri have re-elected their popular mayor to a fourth term, several weeks after he died of a heart attack.
Clean Elections Candidates Elected to Nearly 400 Seats in Six StatesVoters expanded Clean Elections programs in six states this week, electing nearly 400 officials to statehouses, the judiciary and statewide positions.
At 9:45 PM EST, I am officially calling the race for Barack Obama. It has been increasingly clear over the last hour, and now it is solid enough to make official. Shortly after 10PM the Networks will surely call it for Obama.
A few months ago the New Yorker was in deep trouble for its cover cartoon of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle in suggestive terrorist garb being anti-American.
11 FC troops killed in US strikeThe killing of 11 Frontier Corp personnel belonging to Mohmand Scouts is entertainment for US and NATO partners. They have an excuse that they do not differentiate between Taliban and the ordinary Pashtuns serving in the security forces of Pakistan Government.
End of Europe's last fiefdom as Sark votes for democracySome 450 years after it was given to an Elizabethan nobleman on the condition he keep it free of pirates, the Channel island of Sark has ceased to be the last feudal fiefdom in Europe.
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