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GOP senator criticizes Gingrich on Afghanistan

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the Republican Party's top lawmakers on national security, criticized GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Thursday for suggesting that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan may not be feasible....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

SPIN METER: Santorum downplays Senate defeat

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rick Santorum often points to his House and Senate victories in a Democratic-leaning presidential battleground state to argue that he gives Republicans the strongest shot at defeating President Barack Obama in November....

In speech, Biden attacks Romney on foreign policy

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
NEW YORK (AP) -- Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. That was Vice President Joe Biden's message for Republican Mitt Romney in a campaign speech Thursday that blended a robust defense of President Barack Obama's foreign policy record with a harsh attack on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's positions....

Raines: Anti-Mormonism bites Romney in South

CNN - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
The polls and the campaign dialogue aren't much help in assessing the Mormon factor in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. The distinct feeling on the ground was that it had an impact.
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Obama: No quick fix to rising gas prices

CNN - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
President Obama discusses rising energy costs at a community college in Largo, Maryland.
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Biden speech leads Obama 2012 charge

CNN - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday harshly attacked the economic policies of Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, calling them a threat to the American middle class.
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Court rejects Democrats' election chief challenge

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana Supreme Court delivered a victory to Republicans on Thursday, ruling that Democrats waited too long to challenge the 2010 candidacy of the state's former Republican elections chief and clearing the way for Gov. Mitch Daniels to choose a replacement....

Inquiry slams prosecution of Stevens corruption case by Justice Department

A bungled Justice Department investigation and prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens were permeated by the "systematic concealment of significant exculpatory evidence," in some instances intentionally, that would have independently corroborated his defense and testimony, a court-ordered report said Thursday.

In a blistering 514-page report, Special Counsel Henry F. ...

EPA regs could hamper oil, natural gas production, report says

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, the Obama administration is poised to deal a major blow to U.S. oil and natural gas, a leading industry group charged Thursday.

Domestic production of both fuels could plummet if proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations, designed to limit emissions from well sites, go into effect ...

Obama defends energy record

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
LARGO, Md. (AP) -- Vigorously defending his policies, President Barack Obama ridiculed critics of renewable energy sources Thursday, calling them naysayers and comparing them to the flat-earthers of yesteryear....

In first big 2012 foray, Biden defends auto rescue

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 00:10
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden made an aggressive entry into the 2012 campaign Thursday, calling out Mitt Romney and the other Republican presidential hopefuls by name for their failure to support the auto bailout....
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