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What's Your Reaction? DENVER — A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges.
The Democratic National Committee has asked Tampa to submit a bid to host the party's national convention for 2012. Mayor Pam Iorio received the letter Wednesday from Virginia Gov. Tim Kane. She was noncommittal about the idea Thursday, saying the event would require significant "noncity resources.'' The Republican National Committee also invited the city to bid on its 2012 national convention ...
MILAN -- The design team at Moschino, led by Rossella Jardini, didn't even realize that Michelle Obama was wearing one of the company's ensembles the first few times it happened. She'd selected a chartreuse suit for a campaign rally in Iowa. But she'd cinched the belt, which had been sold with th...
What's Your Reaction? The design team at Moschino, led by Rossella Jardini, didn't even realize that Michelle Obama was wearing one of the company's ensembles the first few times it happened.
Hendrik Hertzberg, author of Obamanos! , assesses the year since President Obama's election. And former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee and NPR political editor Ken Rudin talk about gains Republicans made in the 2009 elections.
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Well-wishers and supporters streamed in and out of Kady-Ann Davy's home Wednesday, a day after the 26-year-old won a seat on the Fayetteville City Council.
For as much as Barack Obama has brought change to Washington, it's also us, the people participating and engaging with politics using technology , that have changed, too.
NEW YORK — Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries.
Last week, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, the boy-wonder politician sought out by network cameras at the Democratic National Convention, profiled in Newsweek and the New York Times, was forced to pull out of the race for California governor before opponent...
HENRICO, VA (WWBT) - Democrats endured a series of high profile defeats in today's elections. Earlier today, the candidates said all the right things. Creigh Deeds told us that he expected to win. But that was before the polls had closed.
If the millions of words written about Nov. 4, 2008, could be condensed to three, they would be, "Yes we can." As the theme of President Obama's campaign, the three contrite words seemed to float toward the sky during his buoyant victory speech in Grant Park, upward bound. Onward bound. They reflected a rare moment of optimism in America. With the election of the first black president, the ...
The incumbents in Kannapolis were re-elected Tuesday night.
Trading Silicon Valley deals for diplomacy, the new ambassador to Japan and Stanford alumnus John Roos talks about resigning as CEO of Wilson Sonsini to take up this new post.
The makers of By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres tonight -- Election Night -- on HBO, wouldn't mind achieving the same status. "That was our hope -- that we would create something for history," said filmmaker Alicia Sams, who made the documentary with colleague Amy Rice and with a key assist from actor Edward Norton.
F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s old lament that “there are no second acts in American lives” has been proven wrong on so many occasions that it’s not even worth discussing. Everyone knows America loves a good comeback story, and loves nothing more than rooting for an underdog.
Below are brief capsules of candidates in Saratoga Springs city races. Information was supplied by each candidate, and as a result the exact format of answers may differ from capsule to capsule.
NEW YORK -- Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries.The War Room chronicled Bill Clinton's political operation in 1992, adding a phrase to the political lexicon in the process. Alexandra Pelosi's Journeys ...
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When life handed lemons to Courtney Adams and Chris Merritt, they didn’t make lemonade. They made lasagna instead. Downsized within one week of each other last December and three weeks after signing their lease, the Harlem couple — she a former brand...
Obama film on HBO The documentary "The War Room" chronicled Bill Clinton's political operation in 1992, adding a phrase to the political lexicon in the process. Alexandra Pelosi's "Journeys With George" captured the oddities of a national campaign onboard George W. Bush's airplane in 2000. The makers of "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," which premieres Tuesday — election night — on ...