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Larry King, the celebrated talk show host accustomed to A-list interview guests, has agreed to moderate a debate featuring a squad of minor-party presidential candidates.

Through their U.S. front groups, Muslim radicals overtaking the Middle East have found support in the Obama administration The last time we saw one whole despotic region of the world come tumbling down we could name the heroes and the moments that propelled it: An electrician named Lech Walesa, jumping a wall at the Gdansk shipyard. Boris Yeltsin atop a tank in front of the Russian White House, defying the Communist old guard in 1991. Pastor Laszlo Tokes, refusing an eviction notice from his Romanian flat as crowds of demonstrators gathered. A playwright named Vaclav Havel before a joint session...

WHITEWATER, WI (AP) - Bernie Dalsey is taking some ideas from the Democratic Party, some from the Republicans and some of his own - and he's creating his own party: the Justice Party. The 47-year-old Whitewater resident has become so disgusted with American government and politics that he wanted to start his own party. "I feel there's a big void," Dalsey said. "I thought, 'What the hell? Nobody else is doing it.' " After all, some historians believe the Republican party was started in Ripon, WI in 1854. Dalsey, a former Green and Libertarian candidate for state Assembly, has called...

Mar. 11, 2003Turkey's prime minister resigns to open way for party leader to take power By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANKARA, Turkey - Prime Minister Abdullah Gul resigned Tuesday so that the charismatic leader of his party could take power, a shift that comes as Turkey is under heavy pressure to let in US troops for a possible Iraq war. Gul resigned during a brief meeting at the presidency, an official at the Prime Ministry said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. The change in leadership had been widely expected. Gul said earlier Tuesday that he would step down so that...