The white supremacists, survivalists and anti-Zionists who have rallied behind Ron Paul’s candidacy have not exactly been warmly welcomed. But he does not disavow their support.

The failure to qualify for the Republican primary ballot in Virginia poses several problems for Newt Gingrich’s campaign.

Pragmatic, data-driven and hard-working — the person Mitt Romney was in the mid-70s in graduate school is the person he is now, his former classmates say.

Facing political hostility and lacking adequate financing, scientists are struggling to report on the causes of a concentrated span of extreme weather in the United States.

Attacks across Nigeria by a radical Muslim sect killed at least 39 people, most in an explosion at a Catholic church after Christmas Mass.

A GOP-drawn redistricting plan shores up several Republicans.

The GOP hopeful's reliance on '90s-era stats has former Clinton aides crying foul.

The year draws to a close with several cliffhangers, from health care to redistricting.

A Justice Department opinion promises to unleash a flurry of state rules allowing online gambling, but casino interests are still calling for a single national system.

And say religion is important in their lives.

Wash. Post's Lane: Ron Paul has the 'foreign policy views of Jeremiah Wright'.

On the evening of Oct. 4, 1990, Newt Gingrich and his then-wife, Marianne, were enjoying a VIP reception at a Republican fundraiser when they were suddenly hustled over to have their picture taken with President George H.W.

Adam Nicolson couldn't resist inserting a blast at traditional sexual ethics into an article about the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nicolson labeled the Book of Leviticus's condemnation of homosexual acts a "troubling part of the King James inheritance: a ferocious and singular moral vision that has become unacceptable in most of the liberal, modern world." The author devoted seven paragraphs in his article, "The Bible of King James," on the influence of the King James Bible on the non-Christian Rastafarian religion in Jamaica.

Ho Ho Hopeless Democrats.

Four of the six leading Republican candidates were given lumps of electoral coal this Christmas season when they failed to gather the signatures necessary to qualify for the Virginia Republican primary held on March 6. This leaves only Governor Mitt Romney and Representative Ron Paul on the Old Dominion’s ballot a few months ahead of [..].

Plus, "the foreign policy of Jeremiah Wright.".

Gingrich campaign compares Va. to Pearl Harbor.

Reform groups say President Obama has fallen short on several promises to make the White House more ethical and transparent. Read more..

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