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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's announcement he would send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan got near-unequivocal support Tuesday from Sen. Mark Begich, a fellow Democrat. But Rep. Don Young and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, both Republicans, raised more questions about the buildup.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin shows of a sweatshirt she was presented at College of the Ozarks on Wednesday. Patriotism, citizenship and civic engagement were the focus of Wednesday night’s talk by former Gov. Sarah Palin.
Steve Presley got in line 16 hours before former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's tour bus rolled into the Borders Bookstore parking lot Wednesday morning for a book-signing event.
Point Lookout -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she doesn't need an official "title to effect positive change" in the country.
The Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee took a break from tackling the cap-and-trade bill to explore other policy - More -
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that’s thrilled children from around the world for decades.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are seizing on this week’s recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.
Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel via AP Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin reacts to cheering fans Nov. 24 as she arrives at a bookstore in The Villages, Fla. Palin is on a nationwide tour to promote her book, "Going Rogue."
Leaders of the business community in Alaska say they have concerns about a proposed protected habitat for beluga whales in Cook Inlet. They say the proposal may crimp maritime commerce and resource-development projects along the coast of the waterway.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will stop in Norman to sign copies of her new book -- and we're live blogging the event all day!
Festival of Light 11/27/09 Festival of Light Mail Tribune Photo / Jamie Lusch...
With just two hours to spare and 1,000 people enduring a bitterly cold December morning for her signature, political supernova-turned-best-selling-author Sarah Palin could only devote an average of seven seconds to each - enough time for a quick handshake.
The state GOP launches a site against Bill White, whose decision looms.
We were under the impression that the New Yorker magazine, that bastion of cultural and literary elitism (yeah, we subscribe), had more fact checkers per sentence than any other publication in existence. But perhaps we’re wrong. In Sam Tanenhaus’s review of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, he refers to the chair of the Alaska Republican Party as “Rudy Ruedrich.” We hope Randy’s laughing at the mistake ...
The political tourism section on Flashlight’s bookcase got a new hardcover resident last weekend when we filed Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe’s Sarah From Alaska next Joe McGinnis’ The Selling of a President, squeezing an aged paperback copy of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 in the process.
The Senate debate on healthcare reform has so far just consisted of a war of words between Democrats and Republicans. Read more...
