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Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Calif. Democratic treasurer perpetrated $7M fraud

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee defrauded at least 50 candidates, officeholders and political organizations out of $7 million in a scheme that dates back more than a decade, according to a court filing made Tuesday by federal prosecutors....

American Scene: NYPD officer convicted of assaulting teacher

NEW YORK — An off-duty police officer was convicted Tuesday of grabbing a schoolteacher off a street and sexually assaulting her, and jurors have been told to keep deliberating on some unresolved counts, including rape.

The jurors found Michael Pena guilty of criminal sex act and some counts of predatory ...

Prosecutors' filing hints at plea by Dem treasurer

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said Tuesday it has entered a court filing in the case of a campaign treasurer charged with looting the political accounts of numerous Democratic candidates, but it would not respond to inquiries about the nature of the filing....

Gingrich scales back his presidential campaign

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Newt Gingrich is dramatically curtailing his campaign schedule, laying off about a third of his staff and dismissing his campaign manager as he focuses on a last-ditch effort to win the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention....

Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

Romney, on Leno, cracks wise -- just a little

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- On Jay Leno's "Tonight Show," Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney was mostly business - though he slipped in a few jokes at the expense of his host and his main political opponent....

Romney, on Leno, cracks wise -- just a little

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- On Jay Leno's "Tonight Show," Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney was mostly business - though he slipped in a few jokes at the expense of his host and his main political opponent....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Passengers restrain ranting JetBlue pilot

LAS VEGAS — Passengers onboard a JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas on Tuesday tackled and restrained the plane's captain after he was locked out of the cockpit by crew members, screamed 'they're going to take us down' and ranted about al Qaeda and a possible bomb onboard, passengers said.

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Juan Williams: The Trayvon Martin Tragedies

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
The recent killing of Trayvon Martin needs more investigation. But where's the outrage over the daily scourge of black-on-black crime?


Dems, GOP woo unmarried women voters

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....

Dems, GOP woo unmarried women voters

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 20:27
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....

Papers reveal plans of foes of gay marriage

Gay-rights groups are trumpeting the disclosure of internal strategic and financial documents written three years ago by their most formidable opponent in the gay-marriage battle.

One of the National Organization of Marriage's strategic plans was to "drive a wedge between gays and blacks - two key Democratic constituencies," over the ...

Judge tosses militia conspiracy charges

DETROIT | A federal judge dismissed the most serious charges Tuesday against seven members of a Michigan militia who were rounded up as homegrown extremists accused of plotting war against the U.S. The judge said their expressed hatred of law enforcement didn't amount to conspiracy against the government.

The decision ...

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