It was part of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier: a government agency to work with developing countries around the world and spread democracy in the process.
Piece by piece, in backpacks and carry-on bags, American aid contractor Alan Gross made sure laptops, smartphones, hard drives and networking equipment were secreted into Cuba. The most sensitive item, according to official trip reports, was the last one: a specialized mobile phone chip that experts say is often used by the Pentagon and the CIA to make satellite signals virtually impossible to track.
President Barack Obama's chief of staff says it's only a matter of time before the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad collapses.
Rick Santorum says he expects to do well in the next GOP presidential contests and will be in a two-man race with Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.
From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The dustup over contraception underscored President Barack Obama's political edge in working to attract independent voters without alienating his Democratic base. His Republican rivals are forced to keep emphasizing their conservative credentials to attract the right-leaning activists who dominate the nominating contests.
Rick Santorum is pursuing an aggressive strategy to challenge Mitt Romney in the state where the GOP presidential front-runner grew up.
President Barack Obama's long-sluggish poll numbers have inched up, the unemployment rate has dropped five months in a row, the stock market shows signs of life and the Republican presidential contenders are slicing each other up in a primary battle that shows no sign of ending soon.
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