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Romney says he enjoyed French vacations

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
ASTON, Pa. (AP) -- Mitt Romney spent two years as a Mormon missionary in France but says his best memories of the country are from vacations there....

SPIN METER: Romney roadmap leaves voters guessing

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's roadmap for governing the country is so vague that it has even Republican allies questioning his intentions....

SPIN METER: Romney roadmap leaves voters guessing

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's roadmap for governing the country is so vague that it has even Republican allies questioning his intentions....

Calif. Christian college resuming classes after attack

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — With the horrors of a deadly shooting rampage still a fresh memory, some students at a California Christian college returned to class Monday in a building where seven people were killed earlier this month.

Oakland's Oikos University — still draped with a memorial banner, wreaths and ...

Obama targets tech in human rights abuses

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
President Barack Obama announced new sanctions against companies that enable Syria and Iran to use technology to carry out human rights abuses as he spoke in a somber ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Campaign rhetoric may tie next president's hands

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
Julian Zelizer says President Obama and Mitt Romney run the risk that their words may make it impossible for them to be effective if elected
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No obvious remains found during excavation for missing NYC boy

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities on Monday finished excavating a Manhattan basement in connection to the disappearance of a 6-year-old boy three decades ago without finding any obvious human remains, law enforcement officials said Monday.

FBI and police had been searching the former workspace of a handyman since Thursday, after ...

Romney says May jobs report is 'devastating news'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seizing on what he called a "devastating" jobs report, Mitt Romney argued Friday that the best prescription for economic recovery is to replace President Barack Obama....

Pro-Romney group: Mystery $400,000 donation error

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The mystery over a $400,000 campaign contribution to help elect Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney deepened Monday....

THE RACE: Obama walking fine line in Bain critique

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
President Barack Obama has to tread carefully in targeting Republican rival Mitt Romney's business resume....

THE RACE: Trivial issues fly in White House race

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
These are the dog days of the presidential race, so to speak....

THE RACE: Trivial issues fly in White House race

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
These are the dog days of the presidential race, so to speak....

THE RACE: Trivial issues fly in White House race

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
These are the dog days of the presidential race, so to speak....

THE RACE: Weakening jobs outlook colors campaign

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney both made the economy the main focus of their respective campaigns. Friday's weak jobs report keeps it there....

Nonpartisan gov't auditors rebuke Medicare bonuses

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a blow to the Obama administration on Medicare, government auditors Monday called for the cancellation of a costly bonus program for private health plans that congressional Republicans have criticized as a wasteful political ploy....

Crowley: Sullivan survives scandal, so far

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
There is nothing good to say about a scandal involving 12 Secret Service agents in a foreign country in advance of a presidential trip with 20 prostitutes and too much liquor.
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Say what? Rubio's VP gaffe, Obama joins Tide

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
Sen. Rubio makes a VP gaffe, President Obama grabs an Alabama helmet and Sen. Reid "doesn't care."
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April nor'easter dumps rain, snow on East Coast

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A spring nor'easter packing soaking rain and high winds churned up the Northeast on Monday morning, unleashing a burst of winter and up to a foot of snow in higher elevations inland, closing some schools and sparking concerns of power outages.

"It's unusual, but not unheard of," ...

Zimmerman released from Florida jail on bail

SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman, who slipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in the early morning darkness, went back into hiding Monday and likely fled to another state to avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin.

His release from jail came ...

Romney: Extend lowered student loan rates

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-08 18:48
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Monday that he supports extending lowered rates on a popular federal student loan program for low- and middle-income undergraduates.
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