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Mayor Castro, 1st Latino To Give DNC Keynote Speech

by: David Martin Davies

At the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, Julian Castro will deliver the keynote speech.

by: Eyder Peralta

Unlike what Republicans did in Tampa last week, Democrats will lay out a clear plan to get the country back on sound footing, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said during a news briefing in C

by: Sonari Glinton

Delegates, journalists and protesters are beginning to fill the streets of Charlotte, N.C. The city has a lot riding on the Democratic National Convention which gets underway Tuesday.

Like a quietly efficient operating system whirring away in the innards of a supercomputer, a vast array of Americans — mostly unseen and unsung — spend hours and hours of every week working togethe

by: Mark Memmott

If you missed some of Thursday's action at the Republican National Convention, when Mitt Romney accepted his party's presidential nomination, we

Despite Drought, Some Corn Farmers Reap Bounty

by: Elizabeth Baier

For every farmer who is hurting this year during the drought, others are benefiting. Many fields in the South, Northwest and upper Midwest are producing bountiful corn crops.

by: Quil Lawrence

On a placid summer morning last month, before the Virginia heat could hit them, a former U.S.

The Risks And Rewards Of Romney's Faith Story

by: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Mitt Romney's speech to the Republican National Convention on Thursday will be his chance to tell his story to the world. Perhaps the most unique part of that story is his devout Mormon faith.

by: Mark Memmott

Good morning from Tampa where the Isaac-delayed Republican National Convention i

by: Neda Ulaby

The movie 2016: Obama's America just did something that's hard for any political documentary to accomplish: it took seventh place on the list of this weekend's highest grossing movies.

by: Michelle Trudeau

Miranda Kelly, a 14-year-old from Sykesville, Md., says she's been sleepwalking since she was 6 or 7. The first time, she says, "I woke up on the couch on a school day.

by: Christopher Joyce

Third of a five-part series

by: Kirk Siegler

Freshmen chatter anxiously as they stream out of their dorms for orientation at the University of Colorado in Boulder this week.

Why Do Taxpayers Subsidize Farmers' Insurance?

by: Chana Joffe-Walt

This summer's drought has hit more than half the states in the country. Crops are suffering, but farmers might not be. Most farmers have crop insurance.

by: Deborah Amos

The bitter fighting in Syria seems to grow worse by the day, yet the rebels and the government do occasionally manage to work out something that requires each side to trust the other: prisoner swap

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