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During every presidential campaign season, a number of underdog candidates decide to run for the White House – most of whom have no hopes of ever getting elected.

Amid presidential election season, Republicans dealt a sharp blow to Democrats Tuesday, as Republican Bob Turner won a special House election in New York. The Republican victory, in the race to fill the seat vacated by scandal-plagued Anthony Weiner, gives Republicans a victory in the district that President Barack Obama won with 55 percent in the 2008 election, and one Democrats have held for four years.

While some who question manmade climate change accuse environmentalists of harboring a covert socialist agenda, some advocates claim the label proudly.

For the first time in nine decades voters in New York's 9th Congressional District chose a Republican to represent the district in a special House of Representatives election for the seat vacated by former Representative Anthony Weiner, who resigned after a Twitter sex scandal.

The police on Tuesday killed one of the most wanted top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Abdullah Ooni at an encounter at Batpora in Sopore (Kashmir).

A passenger train rammed into a stationary train near Arakkonam junction, 75 km from Chennai at 9.30 pm on Tuesday, killing 15 people in the accident. More than 50 passengers were injured and officials say the number may go up as many were still trapped inside the train.

China will keep monetary policy tight to contain inflation while forging ahead with structural reforms and boosting consumption to sustain long-term economic growth, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday.

An assault by Taliban insurgents on the heart of Kabul's diplomatic and military district has ended after 20 hours, when security forces killed the last of six attackers, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

In a heated stand-off between Republican Presidential candidates during Monday's Republican presidential debate, Texas Governor, Rick Perry, was caught in the crossfire over his 2007 executive order that required Texas schoolgirls to receive vaccinations against the sexually transmitted HPV virus.

The number of the poor in the U.S. has swelled to almost 1 in 6 people last year, attributed mostly to the soaring rate of unemployment, while the number of uninsured rose to 49.9 million, the highest in more than two decades.

Former vice president Dick Cheney spoke out in favor of same-sex marriage on Tuesday in an appearance on The View.

The race for former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat was too close to call as the polls closed, raising the possibility of an embarrassing loss for Democrats in a district that has never elected a Republican.

After attacking Gov. Rick Perry's move to mandate Gardasil, an HPV vaccine, for 6th grade girls in Texas, Rep. Michele Bachmann implied the vaccination could cause mental retardation.

After fearing his congressional district would be cut due to redistricting in his home state of Ohio, Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced he has a chance to keep his seat.

Book comes out on Sept. 20.

Mitt Romney is catching up to Rick Perry in at least one poll: the Gallup Positive Intensity Score, which measures the difference between strongly favorable and strongly unfavorable opinions of each candidate.

A federal court judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that the individual mandate in President Obama's health care reform law is unconstitutional.

Since Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, took office in 2000, there have been 234 inmate executions, at least one of whom was later proven innocent. What does that say about a a man aspiring for the U.S. presidency?

With his approval rating at a term-low 40 percent, President Barack Obama needs several factors to break his way to improve his chance for re-election in 2012 -- the most important of which is job growth.

Three militants were killed at the site earlier in the day, after then began shooting at the embassy. The attack was just one of a series of attacks in the capital that have left anywhere from two to 12 people dead, according to varying reports. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's events, which also include attacks on NATO headquarters, a police station and three attempted suicide bombings at the Kabul airport.

More than 1 in 7 Americans is living in poverty, according to the 2010 Census. But what does it mean to be below the poverty line?

The name of a Sept. 11 victim etched on the just newly-opened memorial in Lower Manhattan was misspelled, his family told NBC New York.

Several news outlets are reporting that Elizabeth Warren will officially announce on Wednesday her intention to run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.

After an explosion at a Nuclear power plant in France on Monday, President Nicholas Sarkozy has remained mum. Sarkozy is perhaps the world's biggest political proponent of nuclear energy, and he has repeatedly insisted that France's plants are the safest, most modern in the world.

Canada has obtained U.N. approval to unfreeze $2.2 billion in Libyan assets for humanitarian aid and reestablished its diplomatic mission in Tripoli on Tuesday, government officials said.

The number of people with diabetes worldwide has reached 366 million.

While Paul Krugman stirred up controversy with his Sept. 11 blog, presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R, Texas, followed suit, writing a blogpost on Sunday titled, Ask the right questions and face the truth.

President Barack Obama began a national bid to promote his jobs plan on Tuesday, telling an audience at Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School in Columbus, Ohio that it would put America back on the path to global competitiveness.