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AP Top Political News At 12:32 p.m. EDT
Updated: 12 years 20 weeks ago

Walker says feds approve higher Wis. job numbers

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration said Wednesday that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has finalized higher job numbers for Wisconsin for 2011, which would blunt one of his opponents' biggest arguments against him just six days before he stands for recall....

Walker says feds approve higher Wis. job numbers

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration said Wednesday that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has finalized higher job numbers for Wisconsin for 2011, which would blunt one of his opponents' biggest arguments against him just six days before he stands for recall....

Walker says feds approve higher Wis. job numbers

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration said Wednesday that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has finalized higher job numbers for Wisconsin for 2011, which would blunt one of his opponents' biggest arguments against him just six days before he stands for recall....

Walker says feds approve higher Wis. job numbers

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration said Wednesday that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has finalized higher job numbers for Wisconsin for 2011, which would blunt one of his opponents' biggest arguments against him just six days before he stands for recall....

Anti-incumbent fever scarcely in evidence

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anti-incumbent fever is scarcely in evidence in the 2012 congressional primaries, despite costly efforts by conservatives to remake the Republican Party and this week's defeat of a Texas Democrat ousted after eight terms in office....

Odd politics, presidential tradition: Bush is back

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is a little awkward....

What next for Romney? Undercut Obama, raise money

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- What's next for Mitt Romney? The Republican presidential nomination finally in hand, he will spend the next three months trying to undercut President Barack Obama on the economy while portraying himself as Mr. Fix It for a nation with stubbornly and painfully high unemployment....

Split-finger or HGH? Trial debates Clemens career

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Knowledgeable baseball fans can argue all day whether it was the split-finger fastball - and not performance-enhancing drugs - that kept Roger Clemens on top of his game well into his 30s and beyond. His lawyers are trying to make that point at a trial where basic terms such as "Fenway Park" and "foul pole" require an explanation for a jury of nonfans....

Split-finger or HGH? Trial debates Clemens career

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Knowledgeable baseball fans can argue all day whether it was the split-finger fastball - and not performance-enhancing drugs - that kept Roger Clemens on top of his game well into his 30s and beyond. His lawyers are trying to make that point at a trial where basic terms such as "Fenway Park" and "foul pole" require an explanation for a jury of nonfans....

Split-finger or HGH? Trial debates Clemens career

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Knowledgeable baseball fans can argue all day whether it was the split-finger fastball - and not performance-enhancing drugs - that kept Roger Clemens on top of his game well into his 30s and beyond. His lawyers are trying to make that point at a trial where basic terms such as "Fenway Park" and "foul pole" require an explanation for a jury of nonfans....

FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers....

FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers....

FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers....

Romney wins 105 Texas delegates on big night

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney won 105 delegates in the Texas primary on the night he clinched the Republican nomination for president, giving him more than two-thirds of the delegates up for grabs in the contest....

Romney wins 105 Texas delegates on big night

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney won 105 delegates in the Texas primary on the night he clinched the Republican nomination for president, giving him more than two-thirds of the delegates up for grabs in the contest....

Obama signs bill reauthorizing Export-Import Bank

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed legislation that renews the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years and increases the bank's lending cap to $140 billion from the current $100 billion. The bank is the government's vehicle for promoting U.S. export sales....

Obama: Election is chance to break stalemate

Fri, 2024-11-08 15:53
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama said November's election will give voters the chance to break a stalemate about America's direction, declaring Thursday in a campaign speech in battleground Ohio that he and Republican Mitt Romney offer "two fundamentally different views" about how to grow the economy and create jobs....