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Political calendar offers opportunities, pitfalls

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The long, grueling GOP primary race is over. Now comes a summertime lull the candidates could find just as difficult - not because the schedule is crowded but because it isn't....

Political calendar offers opportunities, pitfalls

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The long, grueling GOP primary race is over. Now comes a summertime lull the candidates could find just as difficult - not because the schedule is crowded but because it isn't....

Tech executive gets 22-year sentence for $30M fraud

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former high-tech executive convicted of defrauding investors of at least $30 million  received on Monday one of the harshest sentences meted out in a white-collar criminal case.

A federal judge in San Francisco sentenced Samuel "Mouli" Cohen to 22 years in prison. Judge Charles Breyer also set a ...

Bill Clinton teams up with Obama

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
If case you had any doubts, don't -- Bill Clinton's fully on board President Barack Obama's re-election effort.
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THE RACE: Romney steps up campaigning in Rust Belt

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
Mitt Romney is nipping at President Barack Obama's heels in Rust Belt states that Obama won in 2008 but which polls show are becoming more competitive in a slowing economy....

THE RACE: Gas price drop may offer political bonus

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
You wouldn't know it from campaign rhetoric, but gasoline prices have been trending down....

THE RACE: JPMorgan goof becoming a campaign issue

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion-plus trading blunder is reverberating on the presidential campaign trail by rekindling calls for tighter oversight of the nation's biggest financial institutions....

THE RACE: Gas price drop may offer political bonus

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
You wouldn't know it from campaign rhetoric, but gasoline prices have been trending down....

THE RACE: Gas price drop may offer political bonus

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
You wouldn't know it from campaign rhetoric, but gasoline prices have been trending down....

THE RACE: Romney steps up campaigning in Rust Belt

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
Mitt Romney is nipping at President Barack Obama's heels in Rust Belt states that Obama won in 2008 but which polls show are becoming more competitive in a slowing economy....

Federal judge stops Texas law on women's health

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Monday stopped Texas from preventing Planned Parenthood from getting state funds through the Women's Health Program.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin ruled there is sufficient evidence that a law banning Planned Parenthood from the program is unconstitutional. He imposed an injunction ...

EPA official resigns over 'crucify' remark

Embattled Environmental Protection Agency official Al Armendariz, under fire after being caught on video bragging that he'd "crucify" oil and gas companies in order to send a message to the industry, has stepped down.

"While I feel there is much work to be done for the people of this country ...

Downtown Scottie Brown

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
By Matthew Payne Democrats are trying to convince Massachusetts voters that Republican Sen. Scott Brown is an out-of-touch elitist.


Clemens' lawyer attacks 2008 congressional hearing

WASHINGTON — A federal court jury saw snippets of Roger Clemens denying steroid use at a now-famous 2008 congressional hearing, then listened Monday as Clemens' lawyer tried in fits and starts to declare that proceeding to be "nothing more than a show trial" that shouldn't have taken place.

The perjury ...

EPA official resigns over 'crucify' remark

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency's office in Dallas has resigned over comments he made in 2010 that became the focus of political condemnation last week.
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With an asterisk, WTC is back on top in NYC

NEW YORK — One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just ...

Voter suppression is real and must be stopped

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
Roland Martin says the Republican-led effort to adopt Voter ID laws is a campaign to clearly target voters who are not traditional GOP voters
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GOP, Obama spar over bin Laden anniversary

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
An Obama campaign ad has Democrats and Republicans arguing over whether the incumbent's campaign is honoring or politicizing the one-year anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Johnson: Obama, Dems not serious about passing budget

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-06 17:33
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson says it's been three years since the U.S. Senate passed a budget, an abdication of leadership by the president and the Democrats.
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Wife of Edwards aide breaks down on witness stand

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide an affair he was having and justified using wealthy donors' money to do it.

Testifying at Edwards' campaign corruption trial, Cheri ...

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