POLITICS-US: Florida Can&#39t Resist a Good Electoral Row

A showdown is looming between Florida Democrats and the national party leadership over their decision Sunday to press ahead with an early primary date to select the candidates for next year's presidential election - still some 406 days away.

RIGHTS-US: Tasering of Student Viewed Round the World

Campus police at the University of Florida tackled, then Tasered - or shocked with high-voltage electricity - a journalism student last week, renewing a vigorous debate in the United States and abroad on police abuses of power and the struggle to preserve free speech.

POLITICS-US: Far Right Sells Iraq War to "Values Voters"

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, then U.S. President Richard Nixon appealed to the country's "Silent Majority" to oppose growing anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the United States.

POLITICS-US: Hillary Clinton in the Right&#39s Crosshairs

While Democratic candidates are battling it out for their party's 2008 presidential nomination, conservative partisans have been gearing up to take down the frontrunner, Senator Hillary Clinton.

POLITICS-US: Obama Would Focus Terror Fight on Afghanistan

Sen. Barack Obama, a leading candidate in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday he would make Afghanistan the focus of U.S. anti-terror efforts and unilaterally strike terrorist targets across the border in Pakistan if the government of President Pervez Musharraf failed to do so.

POLITICS-US: Candidates Hop Aboard the Iran Sanctions Bus

Last Thursday afternoon, in a tightly packed press room of the U.S. Capitol building, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi stood at the podium and smiled heartily as she pointed to two columns of U.S. postal boxes stacked behind her.