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Ending more than a year of talks, federal officials Thursday approved Florida's proposal to extend a controversial Medicaid managed-care pilot program through June 2014.

For the Army and Marines who lost 4,500 dead and more than 30,000 wounded, many of them amputees, the second-longest war in U.S. history is over. America is coming home from Iraq.

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- "We're not going to lose in New Hampshire." So says Mitt Romney's state coordinator, Jason McBride.

Why is the Obama administration using its executive powers to implement a general amnesty for the vast majority of illegal aliens present in the U.S.?

WASHINGTON -- Oh, quelle gaffe. Rarely has such a small, innocuous, truth-based remark garnered so much attention from the chattering classes as Mitt Romney's proposed $10,000 bet with Rick Perry during this past weekend's Republican primary debate.

Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration.

Congress will work all week to wrap up the end of the year legislation with the hopes that the first session of the 112th Congress can conclude by weeks end.

Mainstream media pundits gave Newt Gingrich "A's" for his stage performance in Des Moines on Saturday night.

It was a week of risk-taking in the 2012 presidential race.

WASHINGTON -- On Oct. 12, 1948, the campaign train of Tom Dewey, Republican nominee against President Harry Truman, pulled into Beaucoup, Ill., where, from the rear platform, he would speak to about 1,000 people. Before he began, the engineer mistakenly caused the train to lurch a few feet backward, frightening some but injuring none.

WASHINGTON -- In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn't alleviated the nations economic pain, he'd be a "one-term proposition."

The GOP race for president is coming to a head very quickly. Yes, Newt Gingrich had a terrible launch. But that was, in political time, eons ago. Now, Gingrich is the last man standing. And if he keeps his mouth shut, he will be the GOP nominee.

WASHINGTON -- It is a rare day when Al Sharpton emerges as the voice of sagacity, but when Newt Gingrich has the microphone, all things are possible.