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After 30 years, Navratilova's Czech again Tue Mar 11, 3:12 AM ET Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said Tuesday she has regained Czech nationality more than 30 years after fleeing communism in the country of her birth to live in the United States. "I lost it at the time I defected. I got it back on January 9," Navratilova told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo. The 51-year-old former world champion said she was maintaining dual nationality and keeping her US passport. Born in Prague, Navratilova fled to the United States in 1975 at the height of the Cold...

The pro-Democratic 527 group America Coming Together (ACT)--which at its peak last year had nearly 80 field offices in a dozen swing states and 6,000 paid political volunteers--is essentially shutting down. the group's largest donor was billionaire George Soros, who poured nearly $20 million into ACT last year. ACT is going into a state of hibernation, cutting back to only a few staffers and with no set future plans.