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Washington - With world financial markets watching nervously, top Democrats and Republicans in Congress each scrambled Sunday to put together new proposals to avert a looming government debt default …

Washington - The House speaker, John A. Boehner, and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, were preparing separate backup plans to raise the nation’s debt ceiling on Sunday after …

Tomas Rueda, of the Hispanic Republican Club of Cleveland, a poll challenger, monitors voting at a polling site in Cleveland on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov 2, 2004. (Photo: Andrea …

Tourists look on as members of the protest group Avaaz hold an anti-Rupert Murdoch demonstration outside Parliament in London, on July 19, 2011. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The New …

On a recent trip to Israel, I visited a school in Sderot featuring bunkers in the playground. I asked the principal what she thought about her government: “Things are …

Riot police push protesters back under a blanket of tear gas during protests in Athens, Greece, on June 15, 2011. (Photo: Eirini Vourloumis / The New York Times) …

On May 25, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed off on a new law, Assembly Bill 7, that requires Wisconsin voters to show photo identification at the polls. Critics of …

Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer, two of three American hikers seized by Iranian authorities nearly two years ago. Shourd was released last September, but Bauer and fellow hiker Josh …

President Barack Obama holds a town hall event at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. on July 22, 2011. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) …

Cheryle Rudd, center, and Kitty Lambert are married by Mayor Paul Dyster in Niagara Falls, N.Y., just after midnight on Sunday, July 24, 2011. Hundreds of gay and lesbian …