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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!When Rep. Jeff Flake, a pro-immigration-reform Arizona Republican, said earlier this week he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2012, he immediately set off a chain of political storms inside and outside his own party, both in his state and in Washington. His campaign is no home-state affair. It could be a barometer of GOP unity nationwide, illustrating how the party would navigate the divisions between its two major wings -- its hard-line tea party advocates and its traditional conservatives. Arizona already has been a player at the national presidential level, and Flake's candidacy may be ...
Back when I worked as a producer for Chicago Public Radio in the early part of the decade, we would periodically revisit the question of whether to do a show on Cuba. Every year, the same anniversaries would roll around -- Fidel Castro's 1959 overthrow of the U.S.-backed Batista government, President Kennedy's failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion -- and every year we'd invariably conclude that things really weren't changing enough to warrant an update. What a difference a few years makes. As my colleague Luisita Lopez Torregrosa reported back in May, the Obama administration has been working ...
It's still too early to book that Havana holiday, but administration officials say President Obama is considering easing travel restrictions to Cuba. The move would make it easier for American students, teachers and researchers to visit the island nation but would not affect the trade embargo that's been in place for a half century, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. The White House has indicated it wants to promote democracy in Cuba by allowing certain Americans to visit there. A complete lifting of travel restrictions would not happen unless the communist regime makes political or ...
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