173,000 people in Missouri signed a petition to raise the state minimum wage

What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native American identity is shining a rare spotlight on the malleable nature of Indian heritage and the long history of murky claims to such ancestry.

(Reuters) - The email did not mince words. It came from an officer at a California teachers union, and he was irate. President Barack Obama's re-election team had just hired as a spokeswoman a veteran Democratic operative who had spent the last year at a nonprofit, pushing education policies that the union did not like. …

What, exactly, makes someone American Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native American identity is shining a rare spotlight on the malleable nature of Indian heritage and the long history of murky claims to such ancestry.

More uneven than any individual component of Mitt Romney’s approach to foreign policy is the sum of its parts. Recent criticism from the Republican center, most notably Colin Powell’s scoffing, has underscored that how Romney would handle the country’s affairs past the water’s edge is largely unknowable.Part of this is …

Mitt Romney’s visit to an inner-city, predominantly African-American West Philadelphia charter school Thursday looked like a curious move for his campaign, pitching his message of education reform.

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