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- Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney
- Romney rebuts Democrats' claims about his tax plan
- THE RACE: Romney likely to look to right for veep
- Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney
- Two former executives admit paying foreign bribes
- U.S. agents, military brought up to 21 women to Colombia hotel: senator
- Palestinian prisoners launch "battle of empty stomachs"
- Texas seeks fund extension for women's health plan
- Union rift with U.S. Democrats? That is so last year
- Senate Holds First Racial Profiling Hearing in Post-9/11 Era
- Mexican poll points to big win for PRI's Pena Nieto
- Canadian green group splits, thumbs nose at Ottawa
- US eases sanctions for Myanmar nonprofit work
- Canada to cut back on environmental reviews
- Colleges angle for influential foreign students like Bo Guagua
- 2nd panel blasts GSA for parties, trips, bonuses
- Obama wants to target oil market manipulation
- "We gonna pawty," said high-flying U.S. government official
- No need for kangaroo harvest reports: California governor
- GOP wants to cut food stamps in deficit-trim drive
- U.N. sees need for more Syria observers, aircraft
- Italian kidnapped in Algeria freed after 14 months
- Romney begins to win over conservatives
- Arab ministers urge Syria to open up to U.N. monitors
- Georgia welfare law requires drug test to receive aid
- Rubio's immigration push a potential lift for GOP
- Romney rebuts Democrats' claims about his tax plan
- GOP Senate Leader McConnell endorses Romney
- Mutual funds sue U.S. CFTC over registration rule
- AU suspends Guinea-Bissau for coup, talks under way
- White House says Obama would veto Republican tax cut
- Court says Arizona can demand voter identification
- Senator sees deal soon to renew U.S. Eximbank charter
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| Romney rebuts Democrats' claims about his tax plan Posted:
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| THE RACE: Romney likely to look to right for veep Posted:
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| Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney Posted:
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| Two former executives admit paying foreign bribes Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two former executives at a California valve company pleaded guilty to foreign bribery charges, the Justice Department said on Tuesday, handing the department a victory after a string of defeats. Control Components Inc's former president, Stuart Carson, and his wife, Hong Carson, the company's former director of sales for China and Taiwan, pleaded guilty late Monday before a federal judge in Santa Ana, California, the DOJ said. ... |
| U.S. agents, military brought up to 21 women to Colombia hotel: senator Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as 21 women were brought back to a hotel in Colombia by U.S. Secret Service and military personnel in an incident last week involving alleged misconduct with prostitutes, U.S. Senator Susan Collins said on Tuesday. Collins was briefed by the director of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, on Monday evening. "There are 11 agents involved. Twenty or 21 women foreign nationals were brought to the hotel, but allegedly Marines were involved with the rest," the Republican senator said in comments emailed to Reuters. ... |
| Palestinian prisoners launch "battle of empty stomachs" Posted: RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - At least 1,200 Palestinians in Israeli jails launched an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a protest about jail conditions and justice that has put the Jewish state under heightened scrutiny. The start of their action coincided with the release of Khader Adnan, a prisoner who refused food for 66 days before agreeing to a deal under which he was released late on Tuesday and greeted by hundreds of supporters when he reached his home town in the West Bank. Adnan, 33, is a member of Islamic Jihad, which has vowed to destroy Israel. ... |
| Texas seeks fund extension for women's health plan Posted: Texas officials have asked for more time to phase out federal funding for a women's health program after federal officials said it was illegal for the state to ban Planned Parenthood from participating in it, according to documents released Tuesday. |
| Union rift with U.S. Democrats? That is so last year Posted:
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| Senate Holds First Racial Profiling Hearing in Post-9/11 Era Posted: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Judiciary Committee hosted a hearing on racial profiling in the U.S. today, marking the first time the legislative body held an official forum on the issue since before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Two panels testified before a... |
| Mexican poll points to big win for PRI's Pena Nieto Posted:
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| Canadian green group splits, thumbs nose at Ottawa Posted: CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A Canadian environmental group has split in two as a way to keep up public opposition to projects such as Enbridge Inc's Northern Gateway oil pipeline to the West Coast, while avoiding moves by Ottawa that threatened its previous charitable status. Officials with ForestEthics Canada, a staunch opponent of the C$5.5 billion ($5.6 billion) pipeline, said on Tuesday one segment will keep on working on environmental projects and agreements as a way to adhere to tighter enforcement of rules that limit the political action of charitable groups. ... |
| US eases sanctions for Myanmar nonprofit work Posted:
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| Canada to cut back on environmental reviews Posted:
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| Colleges angle for influential foreign students like Bo Guagua Posted: (Reuters) - His academic record was spotty, but as he applied for graduate studies in the United States, Bo Guagua would have looked like quite a catch to many universities, according to researchers who study college admissions. The young man had deep connections to China's elite; his father was an up-and-coming politician poised to enter the Communist Party leadership and his mother came from a renowned military family. On top of all that, young Bo appeared to have access to considerable wealth -- and was not shy about spending it. ... |
| 2nd panel blasts GSA for parties, trips, bonuses Posted:
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| Obama wants to target oil market manipulation Posted:
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| "We gonna pawty," said high-flying U.S. government official Posted:
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| No need for kangaroo harvest reports: California governor Posted: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California lawmakers won't be briefed any longer on kangaroo harvests in Australia under a plan to scrap more than 700 reports required by state law that Governor Jerry Brown unveiled on Tuesday. Australia's annual kangaroo harvest report, which California's Department of Fish and Game is required to track and provide to lawmakers, is one of 718 "unnecessary bureaucratic" reports discovered in audits of state agencies and departments ordered by Brown in December, according to a statement from his office. ... |
| GOP wants to cut food stamps in deficit-trim drive Posted:
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| U.N. sees need for more Syria observers, aircraft Posted:
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| Italian kidnapped in Algeria freed after 14 months Posted: ROME (Reuters) - Maria Sandra Mariani, an Italian tourist kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked insurgents in Algeria more than 14 months ago, was freed in northern Mali, authorities in Italy and Burkina Faso said on Tuesday. Mariani, who was kidnapped in southeastern Algeria on February 2, 2011, was released in the northern Malian town of Tessalit and then taken south to Ouagadougou, capital of Mali's neighbor Burkina Faso. "I thank President (Blaise) Compaore for his contribution to my release," Mariana told reporters before boarding a plane to Italy. ... |
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| Arab ministers urge Syria to open up to U.N. monitors Posted: DOHA (Reuters) - Arab League ministers met U.N.-Arab special envoy Kofi Annan on Tuesday and pressed Syria to cooperate fully with his peace mission, first by providing unfettered access to ceasefire monitors, but Qatar said Damascus may be "playing for time". A six-day-old truce has held in some areas of Syria but fighting has persisted in others since President Bashar al-Assad pledged to honor it last week. A small U.N. observer mission went to the country this week to monitor the ceasefire. ... |
| Georgia welfare law requires drug test to receive aid Posted: ATLANTA (Reuters) - Low-income adults seeking public assistance in Georgia will have to pass a drug test before receiving benefits under a measure signed by Governor Nathan Deal on Monday, making it the latest state to push through the controversial testing requirement. Supporters of the Social Responsibility and Accountability Act said it is designed to ensure that welfare payments, called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, are not "diverted to illicit drug use. ... |
| Rubio's immigration push a potential lift for GOP Posted:
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| Romney rebuts Democrats' claims about his tax plan Posted:
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| GOP Senate Leader McConnell endorses Romney Posted:
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| Mutual funds sue U.S. CFTC over registration rule Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Groups representing mutual funds and businesses filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, challenging a rule that will require funds to register with the agency in the latest battle against new regulations coming out of Washington. The Investment Company Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce complained that the rule duplicates a requirement that funds register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is the second lawsuit to be filed recently in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the CFTC. ... |
| AU suspends Guinea-Bissau for coup, talks under way Posted: (Reuters) - By Alberto Dabo BISSAU, April 17, Reuters - The African Union (AU) suspended Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday over last week's coup, adding to pressure on military chiefs who said they were ready to restore power to civilians after talks with regional mediators. "The (AU's) Peace and Security Council decides to suspend with immediate effect Guinea Bissau from all activities...until restoration of constitutional order," AU Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra said in Addis Ababa. ... |
| White House says Obama would veto Republican tax cut Posted:
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| Court says Arizona can demand voter identification Posted: (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld Arizona's requirement that voters show identification at the polls, but struck down its requirement that they show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. While agreeing that Arizona was within its rights to require identification at voting places, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded the national Voting Rights Act, or NVRA, superseded the law's requirement that anyone registering to vote in a federal election show "satisfactory evidence" of U.S. citizenship. ... |
| Senator sees deal soon to renew U.S. Eximbank charter Posted:
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