Until his recent win in the Democratic primary, District 6 Hillsborough County Commission candidate Kevin Beckner had never run for office. Never felt compelled to. ...more

September 12, 2008

Merriam-Webster Inc. has added more than 100 new entries to its new edition of the Collegiate Dictionary. Here are some, along with the year in which Merriam-Webster first found them used in an English-language publication. ...more

July 7, 2008

Lawyers rallied against President Pervez Musharraf across Pakistan on Monday, burning him in effigy, calling for his ouster and demanding the reinstatement of judges in the kickoff of a campaign that could strain the shaky coalition government. ...more

June 10, 2008

Even with the voting and candidate boycott now over, the fight over Florida's Jan. 29 presidential primary is only intensifying. ...more

February 14, 2008

Freedom declined in 2007 for a second consecutive year as 36 percent of the people in the world - about half of them in China - were not living in freedom, according to a survey by a private democracy watchdog organization. ...more

January 16, 2008

More than 3,000 people jailed under emergency rule have been released, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday, the latest sign that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was rolling back some of the harsher measures taken against his opponents. ...more

November 21, 2007

Though under house arrest and surrounded by soldiers, Pakistan's deposed chief justice managed to get his hands on a mobile phone. ...more

November 7, 2007

Political leaders in both parties are trying to reassure Floridians that despite national party sanctions against the state's Jan. 29 primary, their votes will count in the presidential primaries. ...more

October 20, 2007