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Derek Camp, whose held the position for the last four years, announced the decision in an email to party members.

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Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has ...

Barbara Sprunt is a producer on NPR's Washington desk, where she reports and produces breaking news and feature political content. She formerly produced the NPR Politics Podcast and got her start in ...

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that ...

Jimmy Carter was the first evangelical Christian to occupy the Oval Office. But the Baptist Sunday school teacher's relationship with fellow evangelicals was politically and spiritually fraught.

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It's almost the new year, which means states across the country will enact thousands of new laws from new tax structures to ...