The top leaders of the Hillsborough County Democratic Party have resigned after an incident involving what the chairman and vice chairman called incorrect handling of party money by the treasurer. ...more

January 3, 2008

Ailing leader Fidel Castro saluted the Cuban people for their "50 years of resistance" against the United States in a written message read on state television shortly before the first minutes of the new year. ...more

January 2, 2008

SEBRING — The head of Florida's Democratic Party has assured Highlands County's rank and file that its delegates will be seated at the national convention, Aug. 25-28, in Denver. Karen L. Thurman, who chairs the state party, is "confident that when it is all said and done, our delegation will ... travel to Denver for the National Convention," said Pam Holt, a spokeswoman for the Highlands County party. That's true, said Mark Bubriski, communications director, and it's coming from other party leaders as well. By August, he reasoned, the primaries will be long gone, and so will be the issue of which state held its election first. In eight months, the more important issue will be whether the Democratic Party really wants to upset the voters of Florida and Michigan. ...more

December 24, 2007

Congress left for its Thanksgiving recess Friday without passing a bill to pay for the war in Iraq after the Senate deadlocked over a Democratic demand that the measure include a call for most troops to be withdrawn by the end of next year. ...more

November 17, 2007

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he is prepared for a rupture in relations with the United States if his government launches an incursion into northern Iraq in search of Kurdish rebels. ...more

October 13, 2007

Sen. Bill Nelson spent more than a month trying to convince Howard Dean to come up with a plan under which the votes made by Florida's Democrats in the January primary would count for something, but the chairman of the Democratic National Committee rebuffed him at every turn. ...more

October 5, 2007

Beleaguered by sanctions because of the state's Jan. 29 primary date, Florida Democrats are casting about for ways to strike back, and revealed a couple of possibilities Saturday. ...more

September 30, 2007

Pakistan's ruling party assured President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Saturday that he would be elected to a new five-year term in October before exiled opposition leader Benazir Bhutto returns to the country. ...more

September 16, 2007