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Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in his bid for the White House, saying she and supporters should "take our ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a civil rights leader and political outsider, ran for president in two groundbreaking campaigns that changed American politics. A son of the segregated South who went from ...

In a tragic turn of events, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash just weeks before the 2000 election, ...

The line for coffee and bagels stretches across the room, and it's about 20 minutes behind schedule when Halie Soifer, the Barack Obama campaign's director of Jewish outreach in F ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado becomes the 20th woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, joining a distinguished group of laureates.

Chiesi Group has formed an alliance with Arbor Biotechnologies that gives the Italian pharmaceutical company ownership of an experimental gene editing treatment for a rare kidney condition. Under the ...

The former U.S. vice president warned that the EU risks locking into long-term dependence on dirty energy. BRUSSELS — The fossil fuel industry is exploiting Europe’s scramble to replace Russian gas to ...

When we were children, we learned where democracy comes from, how the people came to rule, about the government of the many rather than the government of the few. But what good is that machinery if ...

Leftists have ominously warned for a decade one group of people represent a unique threat to the American experiment: conservative evangelicals. Progressive elites published book after book, with ...

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