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Dems, GOP warily eye news of falling family wealth

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans are wary of trying to exploit a new report about the sharp drop in household wealth over the past 20 years....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

SPIN METER: Romney championed green energy fund

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
BOSTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney slams President Barack Obama for using taxpayer dollars to pick "winners and losers" among green energy firms rather than allowing them to rise or fall in the free market. Yet as governor of Massachusetts, Romney backed a state program that targeted investments to individual green startup companies in hopes of boosting jobs and the state's revenues....

Special election in Arizona to replace Giffords

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate squared off Tuesday in a special House election in Arizona against the Republican she narrowly beat just months before she was shot. It was a hard-fought preview of the broader fall campaign to come....

Attorney: Auburn killing suspect turns himself in

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man accused of killing three people at a party near Auburn University turned himself in Tuesday after a three-day manhunt that included a tense but fruitless search of a Montgomery home by police tactical units, a defense attorney said.

Attorney Susan James said that her ...

Mobster's girlfriend gets 8-year sentence

BOSTON — The longtime girlfriend of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for helping one of the FBI's most-wanted men stay on the run for 16 years, a life her attorney said she doesn't regret because she still loves Mr. Bulger.

Catherine Greig showed ...

Homicides spike in Chicago

CHICAGO | Maybe it is the splintering of established drug gangs that has young men grabbing the tools of their trade - handguns - to jockey for position? Or it is that rival gangs, once miles apart in different public housing complexes, suddenly finding themselves sharing the same street corner?

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Zimmerman's wife charged with perjury on assets

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The wife of the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin was charged with perjury Tuesday, accused of lying when she told a judge that the couple had limited funds, resulting in her husband being released on $150,000 bond.

Shellie Zimmerman, 25, was released on $1,000 ...

McQueary recounts what he saw in Sandusky trial

BELLEFONTE, Pa. | Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary told jurors in Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial Tuesday that he saw his ex-colleague with a prepubescent boy in an on-campus shower and that he heard "skin-on-skin smacking sound."

His account of the night differed little from his appearance ...

Obama doesn't emphasize issues he fought hard for

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus - two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs....

Obama doesn't emphasize issues he fought hard for

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus - two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs....

Obama doesn't emphasize issues he fought hard for

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus - two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs....

Obama doesn't emphasize issues he fought hard for

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus - two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs....

Obama doesn't emphasize issues he fought hard for

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus - two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs....

Obama doesn't emphasize issues he fought hard for

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fighting for re-election, President Barack Obama is playing down his historic health care overhaul and the multibillion-dollar recession-fighting stimulus - two landmark efforts of his first three years in office. Those signature policies are unpopular, and voters clearly want the candidates to focus instead on jobs....

THE RACE: Presidential slogan wars are heating up

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....

Special election in Arizona to replace Giffords

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 11:56
PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate squared off Tuesday in a special House election in Arizona against the Republican she narrowly beat just months before she was shot. It was a hard-fought preview of the broader fall campaign to come....
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