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Police: Monday NATO protests calm

Protesters vowed to carry out disruptive demonstrations Monday in Chicago, a day after baton-wielding police clashed with demonstrators in a violent confrontation that left dozens injured just blocks from where NATO leaders were gathered.

NATO accepts Obama Afghanistan timetable

President Obama called for NATO countries to sign off on his exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014.

Booker changes tune on Romney, Bain Capital

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker says Obama’s ads against Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital is now fair game.

GOP problem: ‘Their voters are white, aging and dying off’

When presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners Wednesday, he’ll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.

President Obama speaks at a news conference during the NATO summit in Chicago.

The GOP’s sad infatuation with Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Shortly after President Barack Obama was inaugurated, he said that his re-election effort will be judged largely on the economy.

Obama nominates Chicago lawyer for federal bench

A longtime business litigator who helped secure the conviction of former Illinois Gov. Dan Walker during the attorney’s 13 years as a Chicago-based federal prosecutor is President Barack Obama’s latest pick to serve as a judge for the federal…

Opinion: How to pick your presidential candidate online

In 1982, we went to movie theaters, bought albums in record stores and did our research in the Encyclopedia Brittanica (which was sold to us by a door-to-door salesman). In households with kids, Saturday mornings from 8-11 were cartoon time — the only part of our week that the three networks programmed for children. In politics, we chose from two parties: Democrat or Republican.