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- Battle begins between Obama, Republican super PACs
- Obama returns amid foreign, economic uncertainties
- Analysis: Obama as war candidate
- Gingrich pulls plug on "wild ride" White House bid
- U.S. charges more than 100 for Medicare fraud schemes
- Mass. Senate hopeful explains heritage listing
- Romney wants US voters to see Jimmy Carter in Obama
- Obama returns amid foreign, economic uncertainties
- W.Va. Gov. Tomblin keeping Obama at arms' length
- Deal undone? Activist now wants to leave China
- Romney and Santorum To Rendezvous in Pittsburgh
- The Remarkable Campaign of Newt Gingrich
- Battle begins between Obama, Republican super PACs
- Chinese defense minister to tour U.S. next week
- Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney
- Canada OKs Ontario's Darlington nuclear expansion
- Ohio teen competent for trial in school shooting: judge
- Elizabeth Warren Used Native American Heritage to Meet Friends
- Sarkozy, Hollande trade barbs in TV debate
- Fearful China dissident wants to leave country: reports
- Levi Johnston to Name Baby Daughter After a Gun
- Newt Gingrich Ends Presidential Campaign
- Canada says on track to meet budget despite GDP drop
- Did Mitt Romney Steal Newt Gingrich's Joke?
- Theme of Wis. recall turns from unions to jobs
- Obama attends 2 high-dollar fundraisers
- Pro-Romney group readies 9-state ad buy
- Analysis: Obama as war candidate
- U.N. committee sanctions three North Korea companies
- John Edwards' daughter leaves courtroom crying
- Gov't to speed tracking of E. coli in meat
- Gingrich ends campaign, no endorsement for Romney
- Gingrich ends campaign, vows to help defeat Obama
Battle begins between Obama, Republican super PACs Posted: Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements for the general election in competitive states. |
Obama returns amid foreign, economic uncertainties Posted: |
Analysis: Obama as war candidate Posted: As slogans go, President Barack Obama's promise of the "light of a new day" in Afghanistan isn't nearly as catchy as the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln the day President George W. Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq in 2003. |
Gingrich pulls plug on "wild ride" White House bid Posted: ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich ended his run for U.S. president on Wednesday after dazzling in televised debates but slumping to defeat in dozens of Republican primaries under attack from rivals who portrayed him as the consummate Washington insider. The former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, the face of the Republican Party in the mid-1990s, badly trailed front-runner Mitt Romney in polls and his campaign piled up a debt of $4.3 million. ... |
U.S. charges more than 100 for Medicare fraud schemes Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities have charged 107 people, including doctors and nurses, for trying to defraud the federal Medicare healthcare program for the elderly and disabled of about $452 million, the biggest Medicare fraud sweep to date, the Obama administration said on Wednesday. At least 91 people were arrested in Miami; Houston; Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and four other cities on a variety of charges: from submitting false billing for home healthcare, mental health services, HIV infusions and physical therapy to money laundering and receiving kickbacks. ... |
Mass. Senate hopeful explains heritage listing Posted: |
Romney wants US voters to see Jimmy Carter in Obama Posted: CHANTILLY, Virginia (Reuters) - In a blast from the past, Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting Mitt Romney is likening President Barack Obama's economic record to the weak performance of a Democratic predecessor, Jimmy Carter. Romney returned to the familiar ground of talking about the U.S. economy on Wednesday after the campaign trail was dominated for days by the first anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, an issue that played more to Obama's strengths. ... |
Obama returns amid foreign, economic uncertainties Posted: |
W.Va. Gov. Tomblin keeping Obama at arms' length Posted: Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin joined U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday in the list of top West Virginia Democratic officeholders keeping their distance from President Barack Obama, saying that neither the Democratic incumbent nor the presumed Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, has earned his vote. |
Deal undone? Activist now wants to leave China Posted: |
Romney and Santorum To Rendezvous in Pittsburgh Posted: ABC News' Shushannah Walshe and Michael Falcone report: Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney will meet in Pittsburgh Friday morning, a Santorum advisor has confirmed. Officials close to the former Pennsylvania senator said that while an endorsement will be discussed at the meeting, Santorum is not... |
The Remarkable Campaign of Newt Gingrich Posted: The presidential campaign of Newt Gingrich was remarkable. He was endorsed by the likes of Rick Perry and Herman Cain. Even Sarah Palin voted him. And while he once boasted "I'm going to be the nominee," today the former Speaker of the House officially called... |
Battle begins between Obama, Republican super PACs Posted: Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements for the general election in competitive states. |
Chinese defense minister to tour U.S. next week Posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie will visit the Pentagon and several U.S. military bases next week as part of a trip U.S. defense officials hope will help to deepen security cooperation between the two countries, officials said on Wednesday. The visit comes despite a flare-up in tensions between the two countries after a Chinese dissident escaped from house arrest and fled to the U.S. Embassy, where he remained for days while negotiating with China over the terms of his return. China accused U.S. diplomats of meddling and demanded an apology. ... |
Gingrich ends campaign, urges party to back Romney Posted: |
Canada OKs Ontario's Darlington nuclear expansion Posted: CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's natural resources minister said on Wednesday he approved Ontario Power Generation's plans for a multibillion-dollar expansion of the Darlington nuclear power station near Toronto, saying the project is not likely to cause adverse environmental impact. The project, which had been vetted by a joint review panel, would add four new reactors generating up to 4,800 megawatts. Government-owned Ontario Power Generation must now seek a site preparation license from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. ... |
Ohio teen competent for trial in school shooting: judge Posted: CHARDON, Ohio (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday declared a teenager is competent to stand trial on juvenile charges in the deaths of three students and wounding of two in a February shooting rampage at a school in a small Ohio town. T.J. Lane, 17, who faces three counts of aggravated murder and other charges, came to court wearing a blue, collared shirt and sat next to his defense team. After a short hearing, Judge Timothy Grendell ruled without objection to accept the findings of Dr. ... |
Elizabeth Warren Used Native American Heritage to Meet Friends Posted: |
Sarkozy, Hollande trade barbs in TV debate Posted: PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande clashed repeatedly in their only televised debate on Wednesday, with the conservative incumbent sounding angry and on the defensive four days before the vote. Trailing Hollande in opinion polls by six to 10 points before Sunday's decisive runoff despite an energetic campaign and a lurch to the right to appeal to far-right voters, Sarkozy said he wanted the prime-time debate to be a "moment of truth". ... |
Fearful China dissident wants to leave country: reports Posted: BEIJING (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng told journalists he feared for his life and wanted to leave China on Wednesday, throwing into chaos an agreement between the United States and China under which he would have remained in the country. Guangcheng earlier left the U.S. Embassy in Beijing after a six-day stay after securing guarantees that, according to U.S. officials, would have allowed him to relocate within the country in safety with his family and pursue his studies. ... |
Levi Johnston to Name Baby Daughter After a Gun Posted: |
Newt Gingrich Ends Presidential Campaign Posted: ARLINGTON, Va.–Newt Gingrich officially ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday. "Today I'm suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign doesn't mean suspending citizenship," Gingrich said to a roomful of reporters who had waited a week for Gingrich to officially announce it. "Callista and... |
Canada says on track to meet budget despite GDP drop Posted: OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government is set to meet economic goals laid out in its March budget despite a surprise drop in gross domestic product in February, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Wednesday. Statistics Canada said on Monday that the economy shrank by 0.2 percent in February from January. Analysts were expecting a 0.2 percent month-on-month increase. "I'm very cautious about looking at statistics that relate only to one month ... So far I'm comfortable the indicators that I see (show) that we're on track with our budget expectations," Flaherty told BNN television. ... |
Did Mitt Romney Steal Newt Gingrich's Joke? Posted: Newt Gingrich officially left the presidential race today, making Mitt Romney – but for Ron Paul – the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But Gingrich's move could deprive Romney of something important on the campaign fundraiser circuit: joke material. Appearing at a private fundraising at the... |
Theme of Wis. recall turns from unions to jobs Posted: When Wisconsin Democrats launched their recall drive against Republican Gov. Scott Walker last year, it was all about unions. They wanted Walker to pay with his job for pushing legislation that stripped almost all public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights. |
Obama attends 2 high-dollar fundraisers Posted: |
Pro-Romney group readies 9-state ad buy Posted: An independent group backing Republican Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy has placed a $4.3 million advertising buy in nine battleground states. |
Analysis: Obama as war candidate Posted: As slogans go, President Barack Obama's promise of the "light of a new day" in Afghanistan isn't nearly as catchy as the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln the day President George W. Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq in 2003. |
U.N. committee sanctions three North Korea companies Posted: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council sanctions committee on Wednesday added three North Korean state companies to a U.N. blacklist of firms banned from international trade in response to Pyongyang's rocket launch last month. The decision by the Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee came after China consented to sanctions on the trio of companies. It falls far short of the roughly 40 firms the United States, European Union, South Korea and Japan had wanted to blacklist after Pyongyang's launch. ... |
John Edwards' daughter leaves courtroom crying Posted: |
Gov't to speed tracking of E. coli in meat Posted: The government plans to speed up the process for tracking E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly find the source of bacteria outbreaks and hasten recalls of tainted food. |
Gingrich ends campaign, no endorsement for Romney Posted: |
Gingrich ends campaign, vows to help defeat Obama Posted: |
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