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"The most important question is, what kind of country do you want to live in? If you want a you're-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility - a we're-all-in-this-together society - you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden," reads the prepared remarks.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's speech to the Democratic National Convention.

Bill Clinton may have been impeached while he was president of the United States, but he's still one of the most widely beloved politicians in the land. In fact, even as he readied to give his highly-anticipated address Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, he was getting praise from the likes of ultra-conservative GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan.

Bill Clinton will address the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. Here, excerpts of the former president's prepared remarks:

Last week, Paul Ryan made the claim that he ran a much, much faster marathon than actually happened, and Runner's World called him out on that fact. In light of the scandal, journalists have been going over Ryan's old statements on his physical fitness, finding an old article in which Ryan claimed to be an avid Colorado mountain climber, though many think it's impossible for Ryan to have maintained the record he mentioned.

Her father may have been the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, but 3-year-old Carina Victoria Castro is overshadowing San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro when it comes to media attention.

Apparently, the Democrats don't think the average woman voter is very shrewd.

The government is suspected of having spent billions to promote Vladivostok as a major new hub on the Pacific rim, but there are plenty of doubts about whether that will really happen.

While the presidential candidates' plans to tackle unemployment, the national debt, health care reform, immigration, gay marriage and gun control might be the topics that have Main Street voters buzzing ahead of this year's election, a new report by the global equity research team at Standard & Poor's shows Wall Street investors have very different policy debates in mind.

President Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention address in Charlotte is moving indoors after organizers said safety concerns from rough weather forecasts forced them to shift the gathering. The GOP contends the weather is a safe cover story for what is actually tepid enthusiasm and possibly many empty seats.

A small spat between a North Korean and a Chinese company has exposed some frays in Pyongyang's relationship with Beijing.

A team of hackers claims to have stolen Mitt Romney's tax returns from PricewaterhouseCoopers' offices in Franklin, Tenn., and is threatening to release them to the public on Sept. 28 unless a $1,000,000 ransom is paid in Bitcoins, the online currency that is difficult to trace and identify. Mitt Romney Tax Returns Hacked? Alleged Ransom Asks For $1 Million In Bitcoins

After seizing minority control of Quebec's legislature and premiership on Tuesday, the separatist Parti Quebecois is seeking to increase mining royalties and individual taxes, which could impact companies like Cliffs Natural Resources (NYSE: CLF), Rio Tinto Group (NYSE: RIO) and Xstrata Plc (London: XTA).

“Michelle Obama wows convention with passionate speech.”

The Democratic Party's quadrennial nominating party is underway, and the days preceding President Obama's climactic acceptance speech are crammed with party luminaries and promising up-and-comers. After First Lady Michelle brought down the house on Tuesday night, here's a list of what lies ahead:

Usually, it's women who suffer violence from men in Turkey. Now that a rape victim has reacted, killing and beheading her attacker, the debate in the country isn't about the murder she committed. It's about whether she can abort the child of her alleged rapist.

While opinion polls in places like New Hampshire, Ohio, Nevada and Wiscounsin continue to find no clear trend as to whether the residents will support a Democrat or a Republican for President, a new report by asset manager Wells Fargo Advisor Wednesday found those very states unambiguous in their spending preferences in running large budget shortfalls

Moon was born in what is now North Korea.

Dick Harpootlian, the colorful chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, landed himself in hot water among Republican circles after invoking Adolf Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, when speaking about South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

Michelle Obama struck a cord at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Tuesday night in Charlotte. The First Lady, or "FLOTUS," stood at the podium and shared a heartwarming story about her family, her husband's past, their shared values, and their dream to build a better country based on those values. The reaction from her convention speech helped DNC explode past the RNC in social spheres like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

Syrians continue to pour into Turkey – refugees now number nearly 80,000.

New legal developments in China’s largest recent political scandal show that the government is moving ahead with efforts to bring Bo Xilai's inner circle to justice.

Afghanistan is ranked #11 is child mortality worldwide, as foreign investment in the country continues to drop and makes purchasing food even more difficult.

West German authorities might even have been aware that terrorists were planning to strike the 1972 Games.

As Quebec's newly elected premier and leader of the Parti Quebecois Pauline Marois delivered a victory speech to supporters in a concert hall in Montreal Tuesday, a gunman in a ski-mask and bathrobe entered the building and discharged his assault rifle, killing one man and injuring another.

Castro, already being hailed as a rising star in the Democratic Party, gave a much-praised keynote speech at the convention Tuesday when he made his national debut. But he has been a prominent presence in San Antonio's Chicano community since his teen years.

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has said that she plans to relinquish her post soon, a potential second term for President Obama notwithstanding. That leaves an opening for Kerry, who will be speaking at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.

More than fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination and more than four decades after Robert’s murder, the “Kennedy” name is the gold standard for liberal Democrats.

Senussi fled Libya soon after the uprising that removed Gaddafi from power last year.