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Massachusetts senator, John Kerry has emerged as the Democrats' front-runner in their battle to unseat President George W. Bush and his deputy. Democrats across the board however agree that the only person who can deliver is John Kerry but even they acknowledge that it would require a lot of hard work to unseat the incumbent President.

The US Army's Special Forces fighting the ground war against the Taliban in Afghanistan include the Army Rangers, Special Operations forces, and Green Berets. The Rangers train in the dark, using night-vision goggles, and carrying 100-pound packs on their backs.

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Rep. Luis Gutierrez is a hero to many Hispanics. He says he won't change his methods, no matter who gets irritated. Once you've made a promise to [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Alan Mascarenhas Given the personal fortune Linda McMahon has tapped to finance her Republican run for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, you'd think she'd hold a formidable [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Like a journalistic Zorro, a Mexican blogger works where reporters fear to tread. Is he doing a public service, or is he just a tool of the [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Andrew Bast There is no more enduring or defiant living icon of communism than Fidel Castro. He led the 1959 Cuban revolution and, for more than [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores As polls show voters defecting in droves from Democrats, one bastion of support you'd think the party could count on is Hispanics. They turned out in force [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Andrew Bast He has outlasted eight U.S. presidents, survived countless CIA efforts to do him in, and his communist regime has remained in power for a [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Will high-flying hopes succumb to the swamp of the 'Big Sleazy'? Not if the latest Crescent City crusader can help it. Throughout New Orleans's seedy, scandal-ridden history, [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores After 50 years, the U.S. travel ban on Cuba has not made the island any more free. But those Americans pressing to lift it are now closer [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Written off as out of step with the times, he's back--and out to show that centrists can win. Not long ago, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist seemed like [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores The Arizona of the future won't suffer from too many immigrants--but from too few. Yet again, Americans are suffering a period of national distress over illegal immigration. [...]

Byline: Evan Thomas and Arian Campo-Flores What Gov. Rick Perry's hard-right turn says about America in the age of Obama. The myth of the once and future king is as [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores To restrict the nation's energy diet, the White House has offered billions of dollars to help Americans improve the efficiency of their homes. Few people have made [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores The White House recently crowned its first Race to the Top winners, awarding Delaware and Tennessee millions of dollars to overhaul their public-school systems. The states beat [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores When Raol Castro became president of Cuba in 2006--after illness rendered his brother Fidel incapable of governing--hopes were raised that he would usher in a new era [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores When Raol Castro became president of Cuba in 2006--after illness rendered his brother Fidel incapable of governing--many hoped he'd usher in a new era of reform. He [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio hopes to harness the movement without getting burned. Marco Rubio has become a darling of the tea-party set. With their help he [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores Residency restrictions have forced child sex offenders in Florida to camp out under a causeway. Now the man who helped put them there is [...]

Byline: Eve Conant and Arian Campo-Flores; With Catharine Skipp, John Barry and Dan Ephron Cartel-related violence has moved well beyond American border towns. As Manuel exited the Radio Shack in [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach and Arian Campo-Flores A brutal death has caused long-simmering racial tensions to flare anew. To his loved ones in Paris, Texas, Brandon McClelland was affectionately known [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Monica Campbell Life in Juarez, where drug violence has created the equivalent of a failed state on our doorstep. Late one night in January, an ambulance [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And now all the richest American universities are rethinking financial aid. Jennie D'Amico first heard the news in an ecstatic e-mail from her father in Brewer, Maine. [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Harvard dramatically overhauled its aid rules. Other colleges had to follow to compete for top students. How to make sense of it all. Jennie D'Amico first heard [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And Catharine Skipp; With Anne Underwood Police say her deception set off the FLDS raid. Prank or personality disorder? When Flora Jessop answered her phone on the [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Latinos could prove pivotal come November, but they're frequently mischaracterized. Four myths: 1. All they care about is immigration. In fact, immigration typically ranks far down the [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And Andrew Murr The fence is coming, and it's causing Texas-size problems for the folks of one city in particular. CLOSE CALL: The proposed path of the [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp And Arian Campo-Flores Like most university recruiters who target Hispanic students, Christina Diaz crisscrosses the country, attending college fairs and chatting up potential applicants. Except in her [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach And Arian Campo-Flores In the largest child-welfare intervention in Texas history, authorities last week raided the Eldorado ranch of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach and Arian Campo-Flores It wasn't the first time the 12-year-old Dallas girl had disappeared. In 2006, after flunking the fifth grade, she ran away out of [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores And Sarah Kliff; With Suzanne Smalley In New York Primaries in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6 may be the last chance to end the Dem [...]

Byline: Amy Green and Arian Campo-Flores Amid the gloom of the real-estate downturn, one group has cause to celebrate: conservationists. Rising housing inventories and slackening demand are causing some developers [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores Clinton's chances may come down to Latino support in the Lone Star State. This was one fired-up crowd. At a rally for Sen. Hillary Clinton at St. [...]

Byline: Stephen Glain (John Sparks Amy Green and Arian Campo-Flores Jessica Bennett From SLATE.com) GLOBAL POLITICS Misplaying the Money Game Economic sanctions are starting to backfire on Washington. Last year [...]

Byline: Amy Green and Arian Campo-Flores You can pack light for this trip. The latest offering from Source Events, a Miami Beach-based gay adventure-travel company, is billed as the first [...]

Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores (With Julie Scelfo) After a lifetime of agonizing over his gender identity, Steven Stanton decided to become a woman about two years ago. 'It [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores The scandal has a titillating mix: cheerleaders, soldiers, booze, sex. Police say Jill Moore, a high-school cheerleading coach in Ware Shoals, S.C., bought alcohol [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores At first glance, the congregation gathered in a warehouse in Doral, Fla., seems like a typical Hispanic evangelical group. There's the 10-piece band, the singing and swaying, [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Evan Thomas (With Ellen F. Harris, Sarah Hutchins and Richie Frohlichstein in Missouri, Andrew Murr in Los Angeles and Eve Conant and Steve Tuttle in Washington) [...]

Byline: Gretel C. Kovach and Arian Campo-Flores One photograph shows a cheerleaderin a risque pose, offering a glimpse of her panties. Another features a bikini-clad teen sharing a bottle of [...]

Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores The families of Danny Rolling's murder victims filed into the execution viewing room in Starke, Fla., last week. The curtains were pulled back, and [...]

Byline: Carmen Gentile and Arian Campo-Flores The corpses told much of the story, or at least this much: the parents died trying to protect their children. Last Friday morning, a [...]

Byline: Joseph Contreras and Arian Campo-Flores (With Carmen Gentile in Miami) Ordinary Cubans could only wonder whether Fidel Castro was alive or dead. They had no news photos of their [...]

Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores (With Audrey Garza-Morton) Lost in the fog of dementia, Ireatha Watson, 89, seemed unaware of the mounting tension as Hurricane Katrina roared toward New [...]

Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores Authorities have gained a new high-tech tool to keep track of sex offenders: the Sex Offender Registry and Identification System (SORIS), a biometric database [...]

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Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores The 10-foot alligator poised on the banks of a canal near Miami last Thursday had set off a frenzy. Traffic on the nearby freeway [...]

Byline: Arian Campo-Flores As he prepared for a high-stakes audition, bass player Matthew Way yearned for some guidance. But his old teacher Timothy Cobb, of the Metropolitan Opera, was in [...]