Tuesday March 9, 2010 Updated 11:58 PM PST

Even before the votes were tallied, Iraq's candidates and coalitions began positioning themselves in an evolving political landscape...
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Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of...
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It wasn't pretty, but it worked. Nearly two-thirds of Iraq's voters turned out despite bombings, religious feuds and fragmented...
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I've never had the pleasure of meeting the man dubbed Gov. Moonbeam and it's no wonder - I was still in high school in the mid-1970s...
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The hard work of digging up dirt on a political opponent - more politely known as opposition research - has traditionally been done in...
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President Obama praised the Iraqi people for passing "an important milestone" Sunday, when millions turned out for national elections...
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A skeptical Palestinian leadership agreed Sunday to hold U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel for four months, effectively ending a...
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Ever since San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom expressed interest in running for...
