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If President Obama leaves U.S. forces in Afghanistan past his presidency, the choice would contravene his long-held desire to bring a definitive end to wars he inherited when he entered the White House.
Americans will either find a pleasing contrast in Tuesday's debate to the attack-filled show Republicans have put on — or they're going to be bored senseless.
Asked on "Meet the Press" whether he is a capitalist, the senator offered a polarizing answer.
The Ryans at the 2012 Republican National Convention. (AP)
His reluctance to run for the House speaker job reflects some of the same dilemmas that many working parents face.
For four months, Cheryl Mills served Hillary Clinton without a salary while being paid by New York University.
But the government in Tokyo has vowed to challenge the decision and press ahead with construction.
Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the Watergate tapes, remembers a president who could be paranoid, vindictive — and occasionally admirable.
The move is reportedly effective immediately for the coach who went 12-20 in two seasons with the Redskins before he returned to college football to lead the Gamecocks in 2005.
Jason Rezaian, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than 14 months, was found guilty after an espionage trial. 
Michael Keating’s parents almost didn't bring the 10-year-old with cerebral palsy to Pope Francis's arrival in Philadelphia. But then they changed their minds.
The Nature Imagery Project, which transports the soothing elements of nature into supermax prisons to help ease the stress of solitary confinement, has proven surprisingly successful
Maj. Lisa Jaster is more than a decade older than the only other two women to ever complete the course.
A hearth found in the Rotunda may be the nation’s oldest surviving example of chemistry education.
The "glacial periods" of Earth's history weren't uniformly cold, and the ocean's circulation could be a key indicator.