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LAND O'LAKES — Two would-be robbers were shot Friday night after they burst into a home with a fake gun and, authorities said, met a person inside with a real one.

Anthony Weiner's got a friend in ethically challenged Rep. Charles Rangel. "I know one thing: He wasn't going out with prostitutes, he wasn't going out with little boys, he wasn't going into men's rooms with broad stances," Rangel said yesterday, alluding to sex scandals involving Republican Sen. David Vitter, GOP Rep. Mark Foley and GOP Sen. Larry Craig.

(AP) -- A gay rights coalition hoping to legalize same-sex marriage in New York has been getting an infusion of cash from a surprising source: Republican business titans...

Quiet everyone, the president's aunt has spoken: "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen."...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Former President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea on Wednesday, the communist nation's state media reported, on a mission aimed at bringing home an imprisoned American.

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they would work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene." Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popular with many tea party activists, is competing for the Republican nomination with former U.S.Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14.

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Call The Great One at 877 – 381 – 3811 partial list of live audiostreams for the show Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address

VANCOUVER — The Integrated Security Unit is investigating whether an oil spill caused the collision of a motorcade Sunday carrying U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that sent former figure skating star Peggy Fleming to the hospital. Biden's motorcade was travelling to an Olympic venue but his car was not directly hit. The rear vehicle of the motorcade collided into a second car which was pushed into a third vehicle.

Call The Great One at 877 – 381 – 3811 partial list of live audiostreams for the show Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address On this date in 1989 Irving Berlin went to songwriter’s heaven at the tender age of 101.

Call The Great One at 877 – 381 – 3811 partial list of live audiostreams for the show Ronald Reagan’s 1961 speech on socialized medicine On this date in 1970 The Browns beat The Jets 31-21 in the first Monday Night Football game on ABC-TV.

Obama posters. Obama T-shirts. But Obama fried chicken? At least three city eateries have adopted President Barak Obama’s name to hock chicken nuggets and wings, leaving black leaders livid. “It’s exploitative,” said Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), who is planning a protest outside Obama Fried Chicken restaurant Monday if its green awning is not removed. “It's like saying Obama is a watermelon lover.”

NEWARK — Senator Barack Obama’s embattled former pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright, praised Mr. Obama from a church pulpit here Sunday, comparing him to Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks...

CHICAGO — Bernie Mac, an Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and comedian, died suddenly Saturday at age 50 of complications from pneumonia...

In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan embraced the ideas of a small group of economists dubbed "supply-siders." They argued that lower taxes and slimmer government would stimulate growth, enterprise, harder work and higher levels of saving and investment. These views were widely ridiculed at the time, dismissed as "voodoo economics."

Massapequa native Alec Baldwin says he may one day run for political office, though he doesn't say where. In an interview scheduled to air Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," the actor says that, now that he's 50, "There's other things I want to do."

The success of radio talkshow host Rush Limbaugh’s ‘Operation Chaos‘ in helping Sen. Hillary Clinton edge out rival Barack Obama in the Indiana primary this week has spurred the former First Lady to move Mr. Limbaugh’s name to the top of the short list of potential running mates, according to sources.

After two years of record-low ratings, both CBS News executives and people close to Katie Couric say that the "CBS Evening News" anchor is likely to leave the network well before her contract expires in 2011 -- possibly soon after the presidential inauguration early next year.

...“Expectations need to be scaled accordingly,” said Joshua King, a veteran of political stagecraft who served as director of production in the Clinton White House. Still, unlike other candidates’ spouses, Mr. Clinton will always bring rock star expectations. “At first it’s disorienting to see him anywhere that isn’t the center,” said Ted Widmer, a former speechwriter in the Clinton White House who is now a historian at Brown University. Mr. Clinton’s presence is at the heart of the tricky two-step that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has been trying with mixed success — to convince voters that it is wise to reach...