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  • FILE - In this file photo taken Dec. 6, 2012, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, right, and deputy commissioner Bill Daly speak to reporters in New York. The NHL eliminated 16 more days from the regular-season schedule Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, and if a deal with the players' association isn't reached soon the whole season could be lost. The league wiped out all games through Dec. 30 in its latest round of cancellations. Negotiations between the league and the players' association broke off last week, but Daly said Sunday the sides are trying to restart talks this week. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

    NHL lockout 2012: League lawsuit assigned to former federal prosecutor

    The NHL's lawsuit against its players was assigned to a relatively new federal judge who is a longtime New York Yankees fan and a former federal prosecutor.


  • U.S. President Barack Obama and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi shake hands after speaking to the media at her residence in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Obama who touched down Monday morning, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation also known as Burma, said his historic visit to Myanmar marks the next step in a new chapter between the two countries. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    PRUDEN: The ill wind blowing past Benghazi

    It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, and that evil wind from the Middle East comes just when Barack Obama needs a distraction most. Just when the mainstream media finally discovers the deadly screw-up in Benghazi and can no longer avoid talking and writing about it, the Palestinians fire volleys of rockets reaching Tel Aviv.


  • 1991 wedding guest list made VP debate side issue

    The day before the vice presidential debate the guest list for moderator Martha Raddatz's 1991 wedding has become an issue, of sorts.


  • Cover story: Classes help homebuyers avoid errors

    Whether you are a highly educated, experienced investor or a young professional eager to become the first homeowner in your family, a homeowner education class can be an invaluable resource.


  • Taking Names: X-Men leader killed off in new comic release

    Fifty years after Charles Xavier gathered his first class of mutants together as the X-Men, the telepath-turned-team-builder has been killed by one of them.


  • President Bush, accompanied by Attorney General Michael Mukasey, left, and Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, center, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 10,2008, prior to signing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, (FISA).

    POMPEO: FISA amendments should be extended

    When I came to Washington with 86 other freshman Republicans, I had a clear mission: Cut spending, eliminate red tape and roll back the size and scope of the federal government. Putting government back into the constitutional box our Founding Fathers created is part and parcel of that mission.


  • Joseph Kennedy III, son of former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and grandson of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, gestures Thursday while visiting voters outside a polling station at a school in Needham, Mass. He won the Democratic primary election for the House seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Barney Frank. (Associated Press)

    Another Joseph Kennedy wins

    Joseph P. Kennedy III, the first of his famous political family's latest generation to seek elective office, defeated two little-known Democrats in Thursday's primary in Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District.


  • San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro (right), with his twin brother Texas State Rep. Joaquin Castro, will be the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. His brother will introduce him. (Associated Press)

    Democrats see bright futures for Castro twins of Texas

    It's been a long time since any Texas Democrat was relevant on the national stage — think then-state Treasurer Ann Richards in 1988 — but a couple of young and very ambitious brothers from San Antonio hope to change that next week at the party's national convention in Charlotte, N.C.


  • SANDERS: From around the world, a bumper crop of bizarre

    Settling in for a drink and interesting talk a few years ago — it would be the last session we had, unhappily — with Ed Seidensticker, the best of America's World War II Japan scholars, the conversation took a serious turn.


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