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| Yahoo! News: Elections 2012 |
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| Will Maine give Republican Paul his first win?
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Reuters - He is the only one of the four contenders for the Republican presidential nomination not to have won a state primary or caucus. |
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| 2008 Edwards campaign defends 2011 spending
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| AP - A lawyer for John Edwards is defending his campaign's 2011 spending, saying the expenses were related to last year's criminal probe of the former presidential candidate and a federal audit. |
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| Obama call for manufacturing revival a tough goal
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| AP - President Barack Obama is making a strong election-year push for an economic revival "built on American manufacturing." But he faces an uphill slog, with little consensus even within his own party on how to do it. |
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| Congressman asks for delay in Eisenhower Memorial
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| AP - A Virginia congressman is asking a federal panel to reject a design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, saying the World War II general's family objects to it. |
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| Uzbek man pleads guilty in plot to kill Obama
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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 AP - A man from Uzbekistan pleaded guilty Friday to plotting with an Islamic terror organization in his home country to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle he bought from an undercover federal agent in Alabama.
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| Obama budget predicts $1.3T deficit for 2012
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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 AP - The White House on Friday confirmed a report that President Barack Obama's new budget predicts a $1.3 trillion deficit for the ongoing fiscal year. The deficit would drop to $901 billion next year under the administration's tax and spending policies.
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| Romney tries to woo skeptical conservatives
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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 AP - Mitt Romney says he has a "severely conservative" record as he looks to win over voters who favored his rivals in recent contests.
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| Obama shift seeks to defuse birth-control fight
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Reuters - President Barack Obama, in an abrupt policy shift aimed at quelling an election-year firestorm, announced on Friday that religious employers would not be required to offer free birth control to workers and the onus would instead be put on insurers. |
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| Navy names ship for former congresswoman Giffords
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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 AP - The Navy has named a ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head received in January 2011.
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| Conservative bloggers hold a private CPAC party, ‘insiders’ need not apply
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| The Ticket - WASHINGTON -- Conservative political bloggers are having the equivalent of a midlife crisis. A recent explosion of right-leaning groups and publications that pay bloggers--much like liberals have done for years--has left some of the old-schoolers wondering if their trade is worth the effort. For years, they have toiled at their home computers after long days [...] |
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| Santorum, Romney sell selves to conservatives
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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 AP - GOP presidential rivals made contrasting appeals to conservatives Friday, with Mitt Romney saying he proved his mettle as Massachusetts governor and Rick Santorum saying Romney is so moderate that electing him would be a "hollow victory."
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| Mitt Romneyâs top 6 conservative lines at CPAC
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Daily Caller - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney used the word “conservative” 19 times in his much-anticipated Conservative Political Action Conference speech Friday afternoon. |
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| Congressman says will be exonerated by ethics probe
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Reuters - A top Republican lawmaker predicted on Friday he would be exonerated by a congressional investigation into whether he broke any insider trading laws or ethics rules, but it was unclear if he would be able to retain his job as the chairman of a key committee. |
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| APNewsBreak: Report: Energy loans could cost $3B
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| AP - The government could lose nearly $3 billion on Energy Department loans for green energy programs — far less than the $10 billion Congress set aside for the high-risk program, according to an independent review. |
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| Can a Female Ex-Fighter Pilot Take the Giffords District for the GOP?
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The special election for Arizona's 8th Congressional District just got interesting with the entrance of retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally into the race on the Republican side, according to the Tucson Sentinel. |
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| Obama Proposed Planetary Exploration Cuts Has Scientists, Congress Reeling
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| ContributorNetwork - Scientific and political circles are abuzz about the news, reported in the Washington Post, that President Barack Obama's upcoming budget for NASA will make deep cuts in Mars and planetary exploration. |
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| Live stream: Newt Gingrich’s CPAC speech
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| The Ticket - Newt Gingrich, the third and final Republican presidential candidate to address the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday in Washington, is scheduled to take the stage at 4:10 pm ET. Gingrich has taken somewhat of a back seat to Rick Santorum this week after Santorum won caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota and a non-binding primary [...] |
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| Chat with Yahoo News political reporter Rachel Rose Hartman at 2:30 p.m. ET
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| The Ticket - Join Yahoo News political reporter Rachel Rose Hartman on Facebook at 2:30 p.m. ET for a live chat. Hartman, who has been covering the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, will field your questions about the state of the Republican Party and the 2012 presidential race. Join the Yahoo Ticket Facebook page here. More popular Yahoo! [...] |
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| Romney appeals to U.S. business with harsh China talk
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Reuters - Mitt Romney slammed China's "autocratic model" of capitalism in a speech to technology executives on Friday, keeping up attacks on the economic powerhouse days before a visit from a Chinese official expected to be the country's next leader. |
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| War with Iran: Four Not-Impossible Scenarios
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Time.com - Most political analysts in Washington believe that war with Iran is unlikely, especially before the November U.S. elections |
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