Andrea Stone

Senior Washington Correspondent

Andrea is a former USA Today correspondent who has covered Washington, politics and news across the nation and the world. She has reported from 47 states, 28 countries, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon.

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Ariz. Immigration Law Foes Launch Protest Marches

posted: 21 hours 9 minutes ago

(July 29) -- The first day of Arizona's new and mostly defanged immigration law brought hundreds of protesters into the streets of Phoenix today even as they savored their recent legal victory in a f ...

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Reaction: Immigration Law Ruling 'Just the Beginning'

posted: 1 day 13 hours ago

(July 28) -- The 11th-hour decision by a federal judge to block the most controversial provisions of Arizona's immigration law won't stop the clock on the fight over illegal immigration. Soon after U ...

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Census Countdown: 3 Days Left to Be Counted

posted: 2 days 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (July 28) -- You have just three more days to be counted in the 2010 census if you think you were overlooked in the once-a-decade population survey. Friday is the last day to call the U.S. ...

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Report: US Population to Grow Through Immigration

posted: 2 days 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON (July 28) -- A day before Arizona's tough new immigration law was scheduled to take effect, a nonpartisan research group reported that population growth in developed countries like the U.S ...

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Could Florida Be the Next Immigration Law Hot Spot?

posted: 2 days 20 hours ago

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (July 27) -- If some Republican state lawmakers here get their way, Florida and Arizona may soon have more in common than just baseball's spring training. As Arizona girds for massi ...

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WikiLeaks Diaries Raise Question: Is Secrecy Dead?

posted: 3 days 20 hours ago

WASHINGTON (July 26) -- Are secrets a thing of the past? This weekend's release of 92,000 secret documents on the Afghanistan war by WikiLeaks -- the same group that posted a classified video of a le ...

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Even Unseen, Oil Looms Large on 'Forgotten Coast'

posted: 6 days 20 hours ago

APALACHICOLA, Fla. (July 23) -- The only gusher here spouts rumors. A brownish sheen was spotted two miles off St. George Island. Oil washed up near Shell Point. Tourists on the beach swear they saw ...

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Crist Scores Points, If Not Votes, on Oil Drilling Issue

posted: 9 days 20 hours ago

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (July 20) -- So what if Gov. Charlie Crist hasn't held an "official" grass-roots Senate campaign event since May? A 43-minute special session of the Florida Legislature to permanent ...

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Obama Interview: 'I Expect to Be Held Accountable'

posted: 14 days 1 hour ago

(July 16) -- President Barack Obama said "nobody in the White House is satisfied with where we are right now" in the still sluggish economy, but he exuded confidence that when voters go to the polls ...

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Another Reason to Hate BP: Lobbying for Lockerbie Bomber

posted: 14 days 23 hours ago

ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (July 15) -- BP had already called in the heavy artillery to help repair its image after April's oil rig explosion in the gulf. But as the oil still gushes nearly three months lat ...

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