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The Associated Press asked the major party candidates for Senate - Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, Democrat Al Franken and Independent Dean Barkley - to respond to five topical questions. Their answers, edited for length, are below.

1. Now that the economic bailout is law, what should be the next steps Congress takes to stabilize the economy and ensure there's no repeat of what's happened...

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A new study published in the September/October issue of the journal Marketing Science reveals the world's most innovative countries, with Japan and the Nordic countries earning top spots and the United States finishing in sixth.

The study, which evaluates 31 countries based on the time it takes for new products to takeoff, is among the most comprehensive research of its kind. Wherever ap...

TORONTO -- No player better embodies the changing fortunes of the Toronto Maple Leafs than Matt Stajan.

Even though the season is just 10 games old, Stajan has already crammed in a year's worth of downs and ups.

A fourth-liner and a healthy scratch early on, he's now playing on the Leafs' No. 1 unit and is one of the team's leading scorers.

It's a sign times truly have ...

A young hedonist learns a few lessons -- despite himself -- during a year in Holland

The academic highlight of my junior year abroad was an end-of-term paper for environmental sciences, titled "Domestic Animal Waste Disposal in an Urban Social Context." It was a 40-page study of dog poo in the streets of Utrecht, the city in the Netherlands where I lived and "studied" during the 1973-1974...

The British government has urged Spanish authorities to take the 'toughest possible action' following the controversy stirred up this weekend about a website aiming racist abuse at Lewis Hamilton.

The website featured hundreds of derogatory comments about Hamilton ahead of the season finale in Brazil - and it drew swift condemnation from the FIA and McLaren.

Although the w...

Some 6,000 exuberant and vocal South Africans, most of them traditional supporters of the ruling African National Congress, came to the Sandton Convention Center to register their support for the formation of a new political party.

Most have already resigned their membership in the ANC, or by their attendance have ensured that they will be expelled, as promised earlier this week by ANC Pr...

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Lewis Hamilton has had an astounding two seasons on the race track, but off the track, it has been quite a different story. A Spanish website has caused uproar in the F1 word after it targeted Lewis Hamilton on a racial front...

Lewis Hamilton has had an astounding two seasons on the race track, but off the track, it has been quit...

OTTAWA - The once-mighty Liberal party has raised less money from fewer donors so far this year than the NDP, traditionally the poor sister of Canadian politics.

According to quarterly financial returns posted by Elections Canada, fewer than 35,000 donors contributed a total of $3.6 million to the Liberal party from January to September this year.

Over the same period, the Conservat...

LA PAZ : President Evo Morales said Saturday he was suspending the work of the US Drug Enforcement Administration in Bolivia, accusing it of having encouraged political unrest that killed 19 people in September.

"From today all the activities of the US DEA are suspended indefinitely," the Bolivian leader said in the coca-growing region of Chimore, in the central province of Chapare, where...

The need to have sufficiently met the first set of the European Union's Copenhagen criteria, also known as its political criteria, is required for the opening of accession negotiations. As of next month it will have been four years since the EU heads of state agreed that Turkey had sufficiently fulfilled these Copenhagen political criteria related to democracy and the rule of law to be able...

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No more will I tolerate the biased Duluth News Tribune and national media concerning this election. Nit-picking and exploding every little item about John McCain and Sarah Palin while giving the Democrats a free pass has just not been acceptable.

The numerous front-page headlines and shameful televised reports about Palin, her clothing, her daughter and son with Down syndrome are not only...

By JESSE WASHINGTON Saturday, November 1, 2008 5:45 PM PDT

Increase Font Decrease Font print this story In this Oct. 28, 2008 file photo, a supporter holds a sign for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at a rally in Chester, Pa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) In this Oct. 28, 2008 file photo, a campaign button showing images of Democratic presidential candidate Sen....

As horrific as that might seem, and as much as we'd like to believe racism in Pennsylvania is gone, this year's election has assured us that racism-- and race-based hate -- are still alive and well in the Keystone State.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit specializing in tolerance, lists 33 hate groups in Pennsylvania. Included in that list are two Keystone State Skinhead grou...