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Afghan Officials Detain American Boy, U.S. Says

U.S. authorities said yesterday that Afghan officials have detained since mid-July an 11-year-old U.S. citizen, the son of a Pakistani woman accused of firing at Afghan and U.S. personnel there.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

Cheney To Visit Georgia Next Week

Vice President Cheney will travel next week to war-ravaged Georgia as part of a swing through several former Soviet republics, making him the highest-level U.S. emissary to visit the country since hostilities between Russia and Georgia broke out this month, officials said yesterday.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

Alaskans Vote Today in Pivotal Republican Primaries

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Alaska's Republican voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether a pair of GOP incumbents with a combined 75 years in Congress should continue to be the dominant figures in state politics as they battle criminal investigations.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

Biden Son's Service In Iraq Complicates Succession Question

Sen. Barack Obama's decision to name Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) as his running mate has set off intense speculation in Delaware over who would be named -- and when -- to succeed Biden in the Senate if Democrats were to win the White House in November.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

A Portrait of the Candidate, but Dots Left to Connect

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Democrats opened their convention here Monday night with an air of expectation and a sense of uncertainty.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

Biden Arrives To Acclaim, Begins Work On Campaign

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.) made his debut appearance in the host city of the Democratic convention Monday as he rushed to integrate himself into Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign and prepared to accept the party's vice presidential nomination Wednesday night.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

Majorities Again Say They Hold Favorable Impressions of Both Clintons

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

No Joke: Jon Stewart Takes Aim At 24-Hour Cable News 'Beast'

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Jon Stewart ripped the cable news networks Monday as a "brutish, slow-witted beast" and castigated Fox News in particular as "an appendage of the Republican Party."

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

Dean's 50-State Strategy Continues to Generate Debate

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- When Howard Dean officially opened the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, he could look with satisfaction at the assembled delegates from all 50 states, knowing that many more states are in play this campaign season than were before he took over the party.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics

The Trail

MOLINE, Ill. -- Barack Obama played down expectations Monday about his convention address on Thursday, saying he expects it to be a more "workmanlike" speech than the one he gave in 2004.

26.08.2008 06:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Politics