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PHILADELPHIA -- Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced....

There has been some talk, not only on this blog, that first-term New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 49, may be considering a run for president in 2016 or, if the Republican candidate wins next fall and runs for re-election as......

DALLAS ( KTLA) 47 years have passed since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and Monday, secret service agents who were assigned to protect the president on that day in Dallas are speaking out for the first time. Former Secret Service Agent...

Daniel Schorr, who became the elder statesman of public radio after decades as a feisty television broadcaster for CBS and CNN, has died. He was 93. Schorr died Friday morning after a short illness at a Washington hospital, National Public Radio...

Yelizaveta Mukasei Soviet spy was based in L.A. in '40s Lt. Col. Yelizaveta Mukasei, 97, a Soviet spy who worked undercover in the West with her husband, died in Moscow early Saturday, according to Russian External Intelligence Service spokesman...

What would you do if another motorist pointed a gun at you on the freeway? It may be unlikely, but it does happen. Last week, Marlon Gordillo Sical, a 20-year-old Los Angeles man, was fatally shot while driving his white Honda Accord at 8:15 a.m. on the...

by Mark Silva Since there is little news value in someone saying they won't run for something, but seeing as how the name of Tom Ridge stood out as a Republican who could give Sen. Arlen Specter a run for......

The John Hirko Jr. trial resumes this week with closing arguments. Here are more glimpses of the trial: One person who doesn't want to see the marathon John Hirko Jr. trial end is Gerald Nomie. He's the owner of the Downtown Cafe on Hamilton Street,...