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Mr. Hicks was one of the last surviving leaders of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a paramilitary organization formed to protect people from the Ku Klux Klan.

The fight for the midterm elections is not confined to traditional battlegrounds as voter discontent surges, threatening Democratic control of Congress.

A Senate panel released messages Goldman Sachs executives sent in 2007 that appear to contradict its suggestion that it lost money on the housing market.

A Mississippi official described the tornado as the worst in the area in decades. Three children were among the dead.

The Yankees will carry on a long baseball tradition when they visit the president at the White House on Monday.

The welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. is not lying when he says his career is a family affair.

Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the bill’s central architects, issued an angry protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate over immigration policy.

Officials from the U.S., Brazil and other nations urged members of the International Monetary Fund to continue on a measure to redistribute voting power in the organization.

Warrior Transition Units were intended to be sheltering way stations where injured soldiers could recuperate. But the units are far from being restful sanctuaries.

Dueling centers chronicling the history of organized crime are set to open in Las Vegas within a year of each other.

Residents of Putney, Vt., are rebuilding their general store which had literally and figuratively been the town center for centuries but burned down — twice.

President Obama, who once vowed to use the term genocide to describe the slaughter of Armenians nearly a century ago, again declined to do so.

Locking on a position and letting the chips fall where they may have defined the style of Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona. A new immigration law is the latest example.

Professional caregivers are one of the fastest-growing segments of the U.S. work force, and also one of the oldest.

Despite the closing of his family’s bank, the Democratic state treasurer of Illinois, Alexi Giannoulias, said he would press on in his tight campaign for the United States Senate.

Robotic devices monitoring the deepwater well where a giant oil rig exploded and sank last week have discovered that oil is leaking, a development that an official called a “game changer.”

Financial reform is gaining traction in Congress, but the leading proposals would create a two-tier system with big advantages for the largest banks.

Con artists are taking advantage of confusion over the recent health care overhaul, with one plan offering protection against “death panels.”

Gov. Brad Henry vetoed two abortion bills that he said were an unconstitutional attempt by the Legislature to insert government into the private lives and decisions of residents.

Hoping to retake the House, Republicans are trying to devise a new and improved Contract With America — Version 2010.