As a Republican and mother of five, Gov. Sarah Palin's quest for the vice presidency challenges conservative vs. liberal beliefs about working moms.

For the first time since Golda Meir more than three decades ago, a woman is within reach of becoming the prime minister of Israel, a nation...

It may go down as one of the quietest acceptance speeches in presidential campaign history: quiet crowd, quiet candidate, quiet rebukes...

I expect that, perhaps even in the upcoming weeks, changes to the budget and Budget Code will be passed because parliament is currently working, working basically with at times 400 votes. This means that the legislative process has been completely

I think that there will be changes to the Constitutions before the presidential elections that will give the country a strong parliamentary form of government. And I believe that only such a form of democracy can give rise to stability,

The 2008 political season takes center stage in a series of informative public forums and debates brought to you by The Seattle Times. Join us as we take a look at the local candidates and issues making the news and

She stressed the excessive centralization of power in the country and the need to decentralize it "not only in terms of financial flow." "We need to make changes to the Constitution that will allow local government bodies to have their

On Friday, September 5, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will meet with U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney.

Non-governmental commission for investigation of war crimes in South Ossetia and help to civilian victims has published a provisional list of residents of South Ossetia killed during the days of Georgian aggression Aug 7-12, 2008. The commission comments that the

The Nord Stream route of natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany has been corrected. The Nord Stream AG project operator has confirmed that decision was taken to lay the pipe to the south of Denmark's Bornholm Island. Initially, it

Vice President of the USA Dick Cheney completed his trip to the South Caucasus targeted at strengthening Washington's positions in the struggle for Caspian energy resources. Kommersant Daily qualifies the outcome of Baku talks as "failure." The daily accounts that

USS Mount Whitney deployed in Georgian port of Poti. The military command and control ship did not deploy in Batumi port, as was initially suggested, for Poti was in the zone of Russia's special attention, so Mount Whitney changed course

John McCain was officially approved US presidential candidate at a Republican Party congress. He said in his speech that he respected Democratic candidate Barack Obama and would try to pursue policy incorporating both Rupubicans' and Democrats' opinions.McCain said that entering

Situation around South Ossetia may provoke increased activity of international terrorists in Russia, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. Chairman of National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC), Director of Russian FSB Alexander Bortnikov informed at a briefing in Volgograd, where exercises of SCO member

For the first time since the recent military action in South Ossetia, OSCE military observers got a chance to patrol a road leading to Tskhinval from Georgian Karaleti village, OSCE site informs.OSCE regards this as an important step, since access

To us, it is absolutely obvious that Russia was not inotiator of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict," head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich stated Sep 5 at a press conference in Kiev, REGNUM

The media and political spotlight may be shining elsewhere, but in St. Paul, there's economic impact to be tallied and court hearings to be held for those arrested in the protests.

A protest that started on the State Capitol lawn yesterday afternoon ended with an estimated 300 arrests, the most of any day during the Republican National Convention. The protesters had planned to march to the Xcel Center where the RNC

Governor Tim Pawlenty took the stage at the Republican National Convention Thursday night describing Senator John McCain as a strong and compassionate leader.

Now that the national party conventions are over, the real work begins for the presidential campaigns. We look at where Minnesota ranks in the pecking order.