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Voting in the Russian presidential election began this morning and will end Sunday. At that point, Putin's victory will be announced and he will start his 5th term as president. The vote tally doesn't really matter. It will be whatever the Kremlin decides it should be. Having killed off his only two real opponents in the past year, Navalny and Prigozhin, he probably feels like he earned it. The presidential vote in Russia, which began Friday and lasts through Sunday, features the trappings of a horse race but is more of a predetermined, Soviet-style referendum. President Vladimir V. Putin, 71,...

Republican Party Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is taking a swipe at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump over his complaints about the Colorado delegate-selection process. Reince Priebus @Reince Nomination process known for a year + beyond. It's the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it. Complaints now? Give us all a break 7:18 PM - 12 Apr 2016

WASHINGTON -- The flap over Ohio voter registrations stepped up a notch Friday, with President Bush forwarding a GOP leader's requst for help to the Justice Department. U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, of West Chester, asked the White House to direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey to get involved after Boehner got no response from an earlier request he and other Ohio members of Congress sent to Mukasey. With less than two weeks until Election Day, Boehner said he felt he needed to go directly to the president. So he sent Bush a letter Friday saying that unless the Justice...