The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation threatened legal action over the online sale of a vial purportedly containing dried blood from the former president following a 1981 assassination attempt.

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Reagan foundation out to halt blood sale

HUSSEINYIA, Egypt — Thousands of people crowded into a tent on a dirt lot in this all-but-forgotten town north of Cairo on a recent afternoon to hear Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Some came because they had already decided to vote for the moderate Islamist, a front-runner in the presidential campaign. Others wanted to know more. But all shared the anticipation and sense of responsibility that are building here as the May 23 vote approaches, the first time in modern Egypt that the winner of a presidential election is not a foregone conclusion. Read full article > >

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Egyptian presidential hopefuls travel across country in bid for votes

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Here in the land of hanging chads, where a recent poll shows the presidential race in a dead heat, you might expect incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson to be feeling some reelection pressure. Read full article > >

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Senate campaign in Florida off to a sluggish start

The nephew of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh is reported to have agreed to stand down as head of the Presidential Guard.

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Saleh nephew ‘quits Yemen army’

Can an election be won on social media? That question is being increasingly asked in France, before the first round of the presidential election.

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Opinion: Web helps shape French vote

Egyptian election officials bar 10 candidates from the presidential poll, including ex-spy chief Omar Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Khairat al-Shater.

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Egypt candidates barred from poll

Tens of thousands protest in Cairo against the presidential bid of Omar Suleiman, the former spy chief of Hosni Mubarak.

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Egypt Islamists in Cairo protest

For a biographer, the emerging matchup in the presidential campaign between Barack Hussein Obama and Willard Mitt Romney is about as American as it can get. Although the candidates are noted for their innate caution, their family histories evoke a kind of exceptionalism that defines the United States — not in some gauzy and false way, but in the reality of a national fabric woven from exotic threads. Where to start? How about polygamy? Read full article > >

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The polygamists in Obama and Romney’s family trees

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum ended his presidential bid today , bringing to a close a campaign that succeeded beyond the expectations of almost anyone — perhaps up to and including the candidate — had set for him. Read full article > >

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What Rick Santorum meant — and why he was right to drop out

More than two full months into the presidential nominating season, Rick Santorum’s campaign still has little of the slickness that many presidential campaigns exhibit by this time in the process.

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Santorum Sticks to a Bare-Bones Style

Ron Paul ’s rallies this year have yielded quirky and eclectic crowds — bow-tie-wearing libertarians, scruffy anti-establishment types, large religious families and packs of antiwar college students, all drawn with an unusual fervor to the presidential candidate’s unique libertarian message. Read full article > >

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Where will Ron Paul’s supporters go for the general election?

Ron Paul ’s rallies this year have yielded quirky and eclectic crowds — bow-tie-wearing libertarians, scruffy anti-establishment types, large religious families and packs of antiwar college students, all drawn with an unusual fervor to the presidential candidate’s unique libertarian message. Read full article > >

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Where will Ron Paul’s supporters go for the general election?

Ron Paul ’s rallies this year have yielded quirky and eclectic crowds — bow-tie-wearing libertarians, scruffy anti-establishment types, large religious families and packs of antiwar college students, all drawn with an unusual fervor to the presidential candidate’s unique libertarian message. Read full article > >

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Where will Ron Paul’s supporters go for the general election?

In the presidential primary on Tuesday, a defeat for Mitt Romney could send the nominating fight onto an unpredictable path and reset the Republican race.

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Political Memo: For Doubts on Romney, Michigan Primary a Testing Ground

Sarah Palin said Saturday that Republicans should be in no hurry to wrap up the presidential nominating contest, declaring that a competitive campaign until the August convention in Tampa would not complicate the party’s efforts to defeat President Obama.

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The Caucus: Palin Says Brokered Convention Wouldn’t Hurt G.O.P.