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White House press secretary Jen Psaki committed Monday to release a “comprehensive” report on President Biden’s health in the “near future.” “Absolutely,” Psaki said in response to a reporter’s question at her daily press briefing. “I don’t have a timeline but absolutely we will do that, and I’ll check and see when he is due to go back to the doctor.”

Russia will stop developing some strategic weapons if the United States drops plans for a missile shield in Europe, Interfax news agency quoted the commander of Russia's strategic missile forces as saying on Friday. "If Americans give up plans to deploy the third positioning region and other elements of the strategic missile defense system then certainly we will adequately respond to it," Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov said.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin hadn't been back home in Alaska for a full day and her staff had begun fielding requests Thursday for postelection interviews, including from Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King and others. "The intensity of all the interest is amazing. Everyone wants to talk to her," he said. Aides to McCain and Palin, meanwhile, responded to reports of tension between the two sides over the Republican Party's purchase of more than $150,000 worth of clothing for Palin and her family, and accusations that Palin was ill-prepared for her role. Randy Scheunemann, McCain's foreign policy adviser,...

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan authorities say a shoplifting suspect died after being crushed in a trash compactor where she was hiding. The Eaton County sheriff's department said two women fled a Lansing-area TJ Maxx discount store after spraying a security guard with Mace. A deputy found one of the women behind a trash compactor.

IN THE MOVIE A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks was given two of the best lines in the history of baseball flicks. The first, as we all know, was, "There's no crying in baseball!" The second came when one of his players quit the game, telling Hanks it was "too hard." Hanks's brilliant response: "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. Hard is what makes it great." With the midterm elections almost upon us, conservatives need to take that to heart. They won't win by quitting. The Washington Post declared last week that...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If the Democratic Leadership Council has anything to say about it, the Democratic Party will reach out more to voters in the center of political America. "We've got to be for something, and it is pretty clear that America is waiting for us. They are desperate to know what we are for," Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack told those attending the group's conference on Monday. "It worked in 1992 for Bill Clinton, who was chairman of the DLC before he ran for president. It worked in 1996 for Bill Clinton." Since then, Democrats have lost 10 seats in...

Forget those grim unemployment numbers. Demographic forces are about to put a squeeze on the labor supply that will make it feel like 1999 all over again.