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Britain will today urge the Afghan government to put more effort into the pursuit of peace talks amid fears that the war could be prolonged – and more British lives lost – as a result of incompetence and lack of political will in Kabul. ...

"Regardless of how your opponent voted in the past, you can make a major impact on his or her political calculations by reminding these Democrats that a 'YES' vote on the Senate-passed bill will guarantee them an all-out, full-throated ...

I can understand the impulse to get a hardball political operator in there to counterbalance Obama's idealism, but at the end of the day there seems to be a fundamental disconnect between Obama and the one person in the world he needs ...

Reid, who public polling shows is fighting for his political life, asks for a "small online contribution" and emphasized that the GOP sees him as a top target to try and defeat in November. He includes the RNC's side-by-side cartoon ...

Good morning, Capitolists! It's only Tuesday and we've got two full-blown conspiracy theories blossoming around the nation's capital. Yea. Read about.

California nurses are delivering a sanitizing gift to officials from a trade group that represents lobbyists today. The nurses plan to drop off a container of disinfectant cleaner to show their support for Proposition 15, the June ballot measure they ...

On Superbowl Sunday a few weeks ago, Michael Ignatieff returned to the familiar territory of the New York Times. In a short essay, the former journalist, scholar, and public intellectual looked at the forthcoming Vancouver Games and what they said ...

THOMAS KAUFMAN WAS only a child when he knew he wanted to work in film. And he wasn't even a teenager when he decided he wanted to be a writer, too. "I was 5 when my parents took me to an ice cream parlor in Miami Beach, and there was a nickelodeon ...

Lucknow, Mar 10: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday expressed her grief over the Pratapgarh incident and criticised the Central Government for playing politics in the name of providing funds. "There was no help from the Centre. There ...

A regular columnist for the New York Times and Nobel laureate in economics, Paul Krugman speculated about the future of the U.S. in his Feb. 8 piece. He reminds us of the disappearance of Poland from world maps for most of the 19th century. The ...

A trademark of a good politician, many say, is to provide information, but no real answers. By that standard, Madhya Pradesh is home to some of the world's best politicians. When the government was asked a tough question by the Opposition, it ...

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AP File Rob Portman A new poll of 18-29 year-olds finds young Republicans expressing greater eagerness to vote in November’s midterm elections than their young Democrat counterparts. (Rachel Hoff, daily caller.com) Former congressman and Bush ...

New Delhi, March 10: A top Islamic cleric Wednesday welcomed the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, describing it as "a great step towards women's empowerment". "This is a great step towards women's empowerment. I would urge ...

Boston’s Chinatown memorial to the Tiananmen Square massacre sits at the shaded edge of a children’s sandpit in Mary Soo Hoo Park, a fenced gathering place just outside the neighborhood’s famous gateway. When it was installed more than 20 years ...