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Across Texas, over 100,000 Democrats gathered Saturday at county conventions - the second tier of the complicated three-step caucus process to select 67 delegates to the national convention - joining the 126 delegates chosen in the primary voting that same day. With her 51% win of the popular vote, Hillary...
Clinton is well aware of the long odds she faces in the battle against Barack Obama for delegates. She knows that as the Democratic National Convention gets closer, the increasingly bitter back and forth between the two campaigns hurts Obama's chances of winning a general election and reinforces the...
In nearly five decades of reporting, broadcast journalist Bob Dyk covered everything from earthquakes and riots to the death of Winston Churchill and, most notably, the Iran hostage crisis. He started as an editorial assistant for CBS News at the 1960 Democratic Convention, when J.F.K. became the presidential nominee. Later...
Back in 1969, the U.S. had joined the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, part of which requires countries to give arrested foreigners access to consular officials, as in the movies when a pin-striped diplomat soothes a worried American in some Third World dungeon. The Administration renounced that part of...
Others worry about America's standing abroad. Though the U.S. abides by most treaty obligations, its reputation has been seriously damaged after eight years of high profile snubs by the Bush Administration - starting with the abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, and peaking with Bush's war on terror...