Ron Barber defeats Martha McSally in race for Giffords’s former seat

PHOENIX — Democrat Ron Barber has won a full term representing Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, squeaking out a win over Republican Martha McSally and giving Democrats a sweep of the state’s three competitive races for U.S. House seats. In a special election in June, voters decisively picked Barber to fill out the remainder of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s term, but in...

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Golf: Choi takes lead at LPGA season finale

NAPLES, Florida: South Korea's Na Yeon Choi bounced back from an early bogey to fire a three-under par 69 on Saturday and seize a one-stroke, third-round lead at the LPGA's season-ending Titleholders.Choi, the reigning US Women's Open champion, moved atop the leaderboard early Saturday after overnight leader Ai Miyazato of Japan made a double-bogey on the par-five second hole.Choi three-putted...

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What now for Shiv Sena?

In the uncertain scenario prevailing after Bal Thackeray's death, Shiv Sena watchers are fairly sure of one thing: united in grief, the Thackeray cousins could well sink their differences and make common political cause. Many in the Sena and MNS are of the view that popular sentiment and pressure from grass-roots workers will compel Uddhav and Raj to team up. "There will be a groundswell of feeling...

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Lonesome George Not the Last of His Kind, After All?

The tide may be turning for the rare subspecies of giant tortoise thought to have gone extinct when its last known member, the beloved Lonesome George, died in June.A new study by Yale University researchers reveals that DNA from George's ancestors lives on—and that more of his kind may still be alive in a remote area of Ecuador's Galápagos Islands. This isn't the first time Chelonoidis...

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GOP Mourning for Mitt Romney? Not So Much

Republicans are over it.And most of them aren't doing much mourning for Mitt Romney.Just over a week since the two-time Republican presidential hopeful failed to deny President Obama a second term, instead of offering up condolences for a candidate who garnered 48 percent of the popular vote, GOP leaders seem to be keeping Romney at arm's length."I've never run for president --...

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