Pakistan's fledgling civilian government collapsed Monday, as the leaders of the main two coalition parties turned their sights on each other, only a week after banding together to force the resignation of Pervez Musharraf. ...more

August 26, 2008

The Hillsborough County Republican Party has chosen Rachel Burgin, legislative assistant to state Rep. Anthony "Trey" Traviesa, to replace Traviesa on the November ballot for the 56th District seat. ...more

August 15, 2008

Now that Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic nomination for president, he says convention delegates from Florida and Michigan should have full voting rights at the party's national convention. ...more

August 3, 2008

President Raul Castro warned Washington that Cuba would stay focused on defense regardless of who wins November's presidential election, but failed to announce more changes to the communist system during a major address Saturday night. ...more

July 27, 2008

Police on Sunday were investigating vandals' spray-painting of dozens of city vehicles in Orlando, some with disparaging messages about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. ...more

June 30, 2008

Listening to the back and forth this week about oil drilling and energy prices, you have to wonder whether there's anyone in Washington who understands what leadership is about. ...more

June 21, 2008

For a while there, I worried what it would take to get the message through to Hillary Clinton - maybe something like that scene out of "The Godfather," when the movie director wakes up with a horse's head in his bed? ...more

June 8, 2008

Just three weeks before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff, Robert Mugabe is giving the opposition little room to campaign - detaining its candidate, banning rallies and attacking diplomats who try to investigate political violence. ...more

June 7, 2008

Now that Sen. Barack Obama has enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, the history-making victory by a black candidate is complicated by another first: a runner-up who doesn't know how to count. ...more

June 5, 2008

CHICAGO - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton heaved toward the finish line in their exhausting Democratic presidential odyssey with Obama poised to claim victory and Clinton facing the prospects of having to abandon a quest that once seemed a sure shot. ...more

June 3, 2008