Richard A. Gephardt

WASHINGTON — Gun control advocates had told themselves this time would be different. It wasn't. The two-decade deadlock that has gripped congressional efforts to act on gun control continued Wednesday as a measure to require more gun buyers to...

In public-affairs programming this weekend: "Central Florida Spotlight" examines Florida's high rate of premature births at 12:30 p.m. Saturday on WFTV-Channel 9. Moderator Greg Warmoth's guests are Dr. Victoria Niklas, chief of neonatology at Nemours...

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Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talk to ABC's "This Week" at 11 a.m. on WFTV-Channel 9. The panel will be ABC's Jake Tapper; Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the Obama Council of Economic Advisers; Republican strategist...

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' announcement that he can't play in the presidential primaries because his wife and daughters say he's not allowed to is terrible news for the GOP and the country. It's terrible not because Daniels was obviously the best...

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reported yesterday: Barack Obama currently fares as well against a generic opponent in the upcoming presidential election as George W. Bush did in April 2003, a time when Bush’s job......

Ron Paul, yes, Ron Paul is back in the presidential hunt for the Republican nomination in 2012....

Yes, the Republican presidential field looks to be in disarray these days as a raft of seemingly unlikely contenders jostle for the opportunity to take on a Democratic incumbent who's looking difficult to beat, but set the wayback machine for......

by Mark Silva Dick Gephardt, the Democratic former majority leader of the House who has run for president, and Tommy Thompson, the Republican former governor of Wisconsin and ex-secretary of Health and Human Services who also harbored presidential...

by Noam Levey and Janet Hook Despite months of outward ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea......

SEE CORRECTION APPENDED --- START OF CORRECTION --- For The Record Los Angeles Times Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 37 words Type of Material: Correction Voters' minds: A headline with an article...

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