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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Help Wanted Seven months into President Obama’s term, The New York Times reports the White House has filled less than half of more than 500 senior policymaking decisions requiring Senate confirmation. Political expert Larry Sabato says that with health care reform and …

The last time Rachel Veitch bought a car, gas cost 39 cents per gallon, Lyndon B. Johnson was in the White House and “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena” was a hit song on the radio. Nearly 600,000 miles later, the 90-year-old Florida woman still drives her 1964 Mercury Comet …

A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources. The indictments have yet to be unsealed, but an announcement is …