Liberty Alliance elects new president
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The Liberty Alliance has announced a new president to head the organization designed to create open standards and business guidelines for federated identity management.
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Nigel Farage has been elected leader of the UK Independence Party to replace Roger Knapman.
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Conspiracy theorists, rejoice: the man  elected president on Nov. 2 will be a member of an elite secret  cabal with tentacles that reportedly stretch into all layers of  American society.
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The vote today opened the way for the Sunni coalition that had installed him to choose a replacement.
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The dominant Palestinian political faction Fatah on Monday named Mahmoud Abbas as its candidate to succeed the late Yasser Arafat in a presidential election scheduled for Jan. 9, officials said.
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Deval Patrick, a business executive and former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration, has been declared by the Associated Press  as the winner of TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs Democratic primary for governor of Massachusetts.
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RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - Fatah, the dominant Palestinian faction, has chosen Mahmoud Abbas as its candidate for president to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Nevada Secretary of State Dean Heller is now the official winner of the tightly contested Aug. 15 Republican primary for his stateÃ¢ÂÂs open2nd Congressional District seat Ã¢ÂÂ following a court ruling Friday that rejected an attempt by his closest competitor,state Assemblywoman Sen. Sharron Angle, to have the outcome of the primary vacated and a new election called.
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Dean becomes the new chairman of the D.N.C.
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America&#39;s Roman Catholic bishops chose Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., as their new president Monday and elected Chicago Cardinal Francis George vice president.
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Former President George H.W. Bush has endorsed Sen. John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination.
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The liberal group, which has 3.2 million members, could help with foot soldiers in Tuesdayâs primary.
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Uruguayans elected Tabare Vazquez as the nation&#39;s first leftist president, vote tallies showed Monday, breaking a 170-year lock on power by two traditional parties and strengthening Latin America&#39;s shift to the left.
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Three of President Bush's predecessors will join him on the platform Thursday as he is sworn into a second term.
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Rep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat whose document condemning the war with Iraq became policy for the Congressional Black Caucus, was elected the group's leader Monday. He pledged to pursue more frequent meetings with the White House.
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DALLAS: The first presidential election since the United States plunged into its epochal war on terrorism was finally handed off to voters on Tuesday, President Bush declaring the &quot;safety and prosperity of America&quot; is at stake and Democratic challenger
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The jailed leader of the Fatah movement in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, has joined the race to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority in next month&#39;s election.