The Republican presidential field keeps growing, but something is still missing: a strong contender from the South, the party's heartland. An electoral lock on the Sun Belt helped the GOP win the presidency three times in the last quarter-century, with a ...

This editorial appears in the June 21, 2011, Yakima Herald-Republic. Wait ’til next year is the lament uttered by downcast yet determined sports fans of teams that have fallen short of a championship. In Yakima city politics, it’s a sensible move by ...

Union minister Salman Khurshid, who is a member of the joint drafting committee on the lokpal bill, on Tuesday said efforts are on to make a "strong" legislation which can satisfy "majority" of the people. "There is nothing which can satisfy the whole ...

WATERLOO - When Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., throws her hat in the ring for president later this month, she'll continue a trend in the last few presidential cycles of strong female candidates. Bachmann quickly became a contender in the race for the GOP ...

LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) - Britain's biggest hotel and coffee shop operator Whitbread said it had performed in line with its expectations in the first quarter with a strong performance in London offsetting an adverse impact from the Easter and Royal ...

"Australia for a number of years has been a strong supporter of the notion that our mission in Afghanistan cannot be won by military means or combat means alone," he told reporters in Canberra. "There also needs to be a political strategy and we have been ...

"A strong core is pulling ahead of a periphery facing daunting challenges, with very high debt levels, severe competitiveness problems, and fragile banking systems," the IMF report said. "Strong policy action by national authorities is a prerequisite ...

The Landmarks Commission's strict view of historical significance which, through old photographs looked to us like a wasteland, became a strong arm end-run around the inclusive public process fully embraced throughout many public workshops. The City ...