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For the past 22 years, I have dedicated my life to serving my community as a New York City pastor and spiritual leader. I have counseled the suffering, married couples, helped the grieving, fed the hungry and have acted as a liaison between my community and the government. This week, I took what I believe to be the next logical step in that commitment — by announcing my candidacy to become the next member to the United States House of Representatives for the 15th Congressional District. The system in Washington, DC, is broken at a time of enormous challenges and...

Air America, the liberal radio counterpart to Rush Limbaugh, is now asking its listeners to send in money, leading some analysts to say the network is "crumbling." The network, featuring voices including Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, has developed a program where people become "associate" members by contributing cash.

Roberto Calvi, the Italian banker who was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge, London in 1982, did not commit suicide but was murdered, Italian magistrates have concluded. Calvi was known as "God's banker" because he was head of the Vatican-controlled Banco Ambrosiano. The findings of a four-year investigation officially support long-held suspicions that Calvi was killed after fleeing Rome, where he faced arrest, for London in an attempt to save his foundering bank. The investigation, based on forensic tests on Calvi's exhumed body, is likely to strengthen the suspicions of Rome magistrates that he was the victim of a plot involving...