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CIA remembers those lost in covert operations
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA is remembering those lost in the hidden, often dangerous world of espionage, adding a new star to the intelligence agency's memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its hallowed Book of Honor....
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Obama on the defensive on spending, debt
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government spending and debt are emerging as a campaign tug-of-war....
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Biden says end to wars gives US new flexibility
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States can now focus on new global challenges after a long decade of war in an election-year commencement address to jubilant graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point....
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Romney has tighter state path as Obama takes aim
President Barack Obama faces new warnings in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic Midwestern states roughly five months before the election, even amid encouraging economic news....
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FACT CHECK: Obama off on thrifty spending claim
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars. To back it up, the administration cites a media report that claims federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since the Eisenh...
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Obama, Romney try to play it safe in 2012 gamble
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the risky business of running for president, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are largely playing it safe....
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FACT CHECK: Obama off on thrifty spending claim
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is aggressively pushing the idea that, contrary to widespread belief, President Barack Obama is tightfisted with taxpayer dollars....
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House experience a minus for some Senate hopefuls
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some current and former members of the House are trying to make the step up to the Senate this election year. But they are finding themselves on the defensive about experience that traditionally has been an asset....
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Gay pride flag that flew at Fed donated to Valentine
Richmond Fed president says bank is proud the flag sent a "clear message" against discrimination.
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Pool access for the disabled sparks controversy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled....
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FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....
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GOP's Rubio plans to sell books in swing states
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is planning a swing-state summer bus tour that will also roll through South Carolina, the early presidential primary battleground....
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Obama's 2008 magic past, Iowa all-out battleground
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The Iowa magic that launched Barack Obama to the presidency four years ago has all but faded....
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Gloves stay on in quiet NM Senate primary
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Four years ago, Heather Wilson gave up her House seat from New Mexico to make a run for a rare opening in the Senate. She lost in a bare-knuckled Republican primary. This year she has the luxury of sitting back as the Democratic successor to her House seat takes a simil...
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McDonnell, Cuccinelli backing Wisc. governor in recall battle
Gov. Bob McDonnell, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, will join Gov. Scott Walker for an event in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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Romney: Obama doesn't get free enterprise system
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is trying to counter President Barack Obama's argument that he would bring back Republican Party economic policies that have proved unworkable....
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Romney campaign outlines 'day 1' of his presidency
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's campaign has released a new ad promoting "Day One" of a potential Romney presidency, describing which of President Barack Obama's policies the Republican will reverse first if he wins the White House....
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Local Democrat selected for convention
Southside will have local representation on a national level.
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Obama team wrongly says Romney moves goal posts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign says Republican rival Mitt Romney is trying to "move the goal posts" and reverse his position on unemployment. Actually, that's a fumble of the facts....
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One year after credit card reform: How protected are we?
Virginia Tech consumer advocate says beware of new fees from credit card companies.
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Obama birth certificate OK by Arizona official
PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's secretary of state says Hawaii's verification of President Barack Obama's birth records meets necessary requirements and that the president will appear on Arizona's ballot in the fall....
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Romney says Congress should wait to act on economy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney says that if elected Congress should wait until he takes office to block automatic spending cuts and to keep tax cuts from expiring....
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Rep. King: CIA, Pentagon, too close to filmmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee chairman is charging that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized national security by cooperating too closely with filmmakers producing a movie on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden....
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Romney defends record at Bain Capital firm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is aggressively defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and insists it makes him qualified to be president....
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Competitive Senate race shaping up in North Dakota
MINOT, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's prosperity from an energy boom as the rest of the country slowly crawls out from under a collapsed economy is making a contest of a Senate race that Democrats had all but conceded....
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