E.L. Konigsburg, an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, has died. She was 83.
Her son Paul Konigsburg says she died on Friday at a hospital in Virginia.

The Obama camp played down talk Wednesday that a widely praised speech by Mitt Romney's wife at the Republican convention could ease the challenger's problems with women voters.

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An unrelenting President Barack Obama jabbed at Mitt Romney's record with a private equity firm in an ad Saturday that aimed to keep his rival on the defensive just as the Republican challenger's campaign hoped to take advantage of poor economic data to gain an edge on the incumbent.

Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney, wooing social conservatives, adamantly rejected same-sex marriage on Saturday and trumpeted his belief in Christian values and the family.

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Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai was on Friday sentenced to two years of imprisonment by a court here for ‘conspiracy to defraud the US’ and for illegally working for Pakistan's ISI to influence Am