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President Biden hosted the Atlanta Braves, who won the 2021 World Series, at the White House on Monday, quipping that he also knows “about being counted out.” Biden called Atlanta’s World Series win “one of history’s greatest turnarounds.” “I know a little something about being counted out, and I know in Georgia, you show up when it counts,” the president said. The team gifted Biden a Braves jersey with the number 46, which the president held up and showed around the room before taking a photograph with the team. The president said the Braves will be “forever known as the...

Former Trump challenger Hillary Clinton fell in line with fellow Democrats on Monday, stating that the election will not be over until “all the votes are counted” — an apparent reference to the ballots that election officials will continue to count in some states, such as Pennsylvania, days after the traditional Election Day deadline.

MADERA, Calif. – For most people, describing themselves on the U.S. Census form will be as easy as checking a box: White. Black. American Indian. But it's not so simple for indigenous immigrants — the Native Americans of Mexico and Central America. They often need more than one box because their ancestry can cover multiple Census categories, and they must also overcome a significant language barrier and a mistrust of government. The Census Bureau wants to change that in the 2010 count as it tallies immigrant indigenous groups for the first time ever, hoping to get a more complete snapshot...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The judges in the Minnesota Senate trial have identified the first of what could be many wrongly rejected absentee ballots that they say must be included in the final count. The judges' order Tuesday means that 24 supporters of Democrat Al Franken whose absentee ballots were rejected will see their votes counted. Republican Norm Coleman wants the judges to count about 4,700 other rejected absentee ballots, and his lawyer says their decision means they're more likely to take that step. Franken has a 225-vote lead over Coleman, not including the 24 votes at issue Tuesday.

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Meanwhile: Brights of the world, stand and be counted Daniel C. Dennett NYT Tuesday, July 15, 2003 BLUE HILL, Maine The time has come for us brights to come out of the closet. What is a bright? A bright is a person with a naturalist as opposed to a supernaturalist world view. We brights don't believe in ghosts or elves or the Easter Bunny - or God. We disagree about many things, and hold a variety of views about morality, politics and the meaning of life, but we share a disbelief in black magic - and life after death. The...

<p>A garden where patients at the Central Teaching Hospital for Children could once stroll is now a cemetery. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press.</p> <p>BAGHDAD, Iraq - The battle for Baghdad cost the lives of at least 1,101 Iraqi civilians, many of them women and children, according to records at the city's 19 largest hospitals.</p>

No further hand-wringing debate is necessary When chief weapons inspector Hans Blix reported last Friday to the United Nations Security Council, there was something truly bizarre about the moment. Those opposed to military action seized on increased Iraqi co-operation, but a careful reading properly leads to the necessity for swift action. "One can hardly avoid the impression that after a period of somewhat reluctant co-operation, there's been an acceleration of initiative from the Iraqi side since the end of January," Blix said. "This is welcome. But the value of these measures must be soberly judged by how many question marks...