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• Officials: Romney, RNC hauls in $100 million-plus
• New jobs report looms over Obama campaign bus trip
• THE RACE: Romney risks losing edge on economy
• Romney campaign's missteps have some Republicans grumbling
• Mexico withdraws Argentina auto-tariff accord
• Romney campaign raises over $100 million in June
• Defection cheers anti-Assad coalition at Paris meet
• Obama emphasizes his family background in Ohio
• New jobs report looms over Obama campaign bus trip
• Officials: Romney, RNC hauls in $100 million-plus
• Analysis: Legal eagles redefine healthcare winners, losers
• Big rewards, less job security for college leaders
• Authors say they find 100 new Caravaggio works in Italy
• Romney Campaign: Same Answers to Different Questions
• House bill would cut food stamps, farm subsidies
• Left, right criticize Humala over deadly Peru clashes
• Final Mexican results confirming Pena Nieto win
• Source of deadly Colorado wildfire located, cause unknown
• Push to ban gay marriage flagging in Iowa
• Drug war fury awaits Mexico's Pena Nieto
• Correction: Countrywide-VIP Loans story
• Finmeccanica sold radio equipment to Syria: report
• U.N. stops short of endorsing intervention in Mali
• Home sales drop in Toronto and Vancouver, prices up
• Obama knocks China trade policy, Romney on campaign tour
• Recall news
• Axelrod to ABC: Romney 'Most Secretive Candidate' Since Nixon
• Utah Town Votes on Fate of Mayor's Mustache
• House unveils its 5-year farm and food bill
• Asian nations want to sink South Korea whale hunt plan
• Northern Ireland police to investigate 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings
• Mitt Romney, the $100 Million Man
• Romania president accuses government of power grab

Officials: Romney, RNC hauls in $100 million-plus Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT Two Republican officials say GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee combined raised more than $100 million in June.

New jobs report looms over Obama campaign bus trip Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:51 PM PDT Campaigning by bus through swing state Ohio, President Barack Obama cast his re-election bid as a bet on the American worker Thursday, even as he braced for a Friday unemployment report that will help set battle lines for the hot summer to come.

THE RACE: Romney risks losing edge on economy Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:05 AM PDT In recasting the national health care law as a tax, Republican Mitt Romney risks straying from what had been his main focus: the limp economy under President Barack Obama.

Romney campaign's missteps have some Republicans grumbling Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For months, Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign was a picture of discipline, charting a relatively steady course for the former Massachusetts governor through a bitterly contested primary season. In recent weeks, however, Romney's tight ship has not looked so tight. ...

Mexico withdraws Argentina auto-tariff accord Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:24 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has withdrawn a zero-tariff agreement with Argentina on autos in a tit-for-tat trade dispute after the Argentine government's decision to pull out of an auto trade pact between the two countries. Francisco de Rosenzweig, Mexican undersecretary for trade, said on Thursday the measure became effective on June 26. Mexico had said on June 25 that Argentina had pulled out of the auto trade pact over the deal's conditions. "Mexico is taking a reciprocal action," de Rosenzweig said. ...

Romney campaign raises over $100 million in June Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised more than$100 million in June, a Republican official said on Thursday. Romney's total for the month reflected a fund-raising spree that outpaced his total for May, which was $77 million. (Reporting By Steve Holland; editing by Christopher Wilson)

Defection cheers anti-Assad coalition at Paris meet Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:32 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Reports of the defection of a general and personal friend of Bashar al-Assad will cheer the Syrian leader's enemies at a meeting in Paris on Friday of the Western and Arab states that want to drive him from power. A source in the exiled opposition said Manaf Tlas, a brigade commander in Assad's Republican Guard, was en route to Paris where the "Friends of Syria" group of states opposed to Assad was due to meet. He has family there. ...

Obama emphasizes his family background in Ohio Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:58 PM PDT President Barack Obama was traveling solo during his first campaign bus tour, but his family wasn't too far behind — in his words, at least.

New jobs report looms over Obama campaign bus trip Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:51 PM PDT Campaigning by bus through swing state Ohio, President Barack Obama cast his re-election bid as a bet on the American worker Thursday, even as he braced for a Friday unemployment report that will help set battle lines for the hot summer to come.

Officials: Romney, RNC hauls in $100 million-plus Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT Two Republican officials say GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee combined raised more than $100 million in June.

Analysis: Legal eagles redefine healthcare winners, losers Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Obama's healthcare law under Congress's power to tax, but not its power to regulate the economy, many conservatives were quick to hail the decision as a victory for more limited government. By saying the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution does not allow Congress to penalize people for "inactivity" - such as someone's decision not to purchase health insurance - the thinking went, the court opened the door to challenges to laws that might attempt to do the same. ...

Big rewards, less job security for college leaders Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:28 PM PDT Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It's enough to make people wonder why anyone would want the job of college president.

Authors say they find 100 new Caravaggio works in Italy Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:20 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Italian art experts say they have discovered about 100 previously unknown sketches and paintings by Caravaggio, the Italian baroque painter whose realistic and dramatic canvases set a new standard for Western art. Only some 90 paintings by Caravaggio, who died in 1610 in his late 30s after a turbulent life, and was a master of using the chiaroscuro technique of lighting to make his subjects seem to come alive, previously were known to exist. ...

Romney Campaign: Same Answers to Different Questions Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:20 PM PDT Mitt Romney's spokespeople have apparently run out of words. Here's Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg's statement to the press earlier today about reports by the AP and Vanity Fair about Romney's offshore accounts in Bermuda: "President Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney have been proven false time...

House bill would cut food stamps, farm subsidies Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT The House Agriculture Committee on Thursday unveiled its approach for a long-term farm and food bill that would reduce spending by $3.5 billion a year, almost half of that coming from cuts in the federal food stamp program.

Left, right criticize Humala over deadly Peru clashes Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:02 PM PDT LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian lawmakers on Thursday harshly criticized President Ollanta Humala's crackdown on protests against Newmont's $5 billion Conga mine, as deadly violence prompted calls for him to shuffle his Cabinet. A fifth protester died on Thursday after two days of clashes with police as left-wing leader Marco Arana, a soft-spoken former Roman Catholic priest who has rallied demonstrators to stop construction of the biggest mine in Peruvian history, was released from police custody a day after a video aired on local TV showed him being detained and beaten by police. ...

Final Mexican results confirming Pena Nieto win Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:58 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto was a clear victor in Sunday's presidential election, according to a second tally of votes made after the runner-up refused to accept defeat. With 97 percent of polling stations counted by Thursday afternoon, Pena Nieto held 38.3 percent of the vote, nearly 7 points ahead of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. A win for Pena Nieto sets up a return to power by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico, at times ruthlessly, between 1929 and 2000. ...

Source of deadly Colorado wildfire located, cause unknown Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:56 PM PDT DENVER (Reuters) - Investigators probing the cause of a deadly Colorado wildfire that charred more than 300 homes, making it the most destructive in state history, have located the point of ignition but have not concluded how the blaze started, officials said on Thursday. At its height, the 12-day-old blaze forced the evacuation of some 35,000 people in and around Colorado Springs, the state's second most populous city, and threatened the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy before fire crews gained an upper hand late last week. ...

Push to ban gay marriage flagging in Iowa Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:44 PM PDT Ever since gay couples began flocking to Iowa to marry three years ago, conservative Republicans have been looking forward to amassing enough political power to put an end to it. But now that the opportunity is finally approaching, their goal may be slipping out of reach.

Drug war fury awaits Mexico's Pena Nieto Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:42 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - In the two days after Enrique Pena Nieto smiled under confetti to celebrate his presidential election win in Mexico, a car bomb killed two policemen, assailants opened fire on a wake near the U.S. border and rival gunmen left 10 dead near the capital. The carnage served as a grim reminder of the drug war the new leader will inherit when he takes office in December. Pena Nieto faces pressure from all sides over a drug war that has killed more than 55,000 people in President Felipe Calderon's six-year presidency. ...

Correction: Countrywide-VIP Loans story Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:39 PM PDT In a July 4 story and in initial versions of a July 5 story about lawmakers and other officials getting discount loans from the former Countrywide Financial Corp., The Associated Press reported erroneously that former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros was on Fannie Mae's board of directors when his loan was processed. Cisneros was on Countrywide's board of directors, not Fannie Mae's.

Finmeccanica sold radio equipment to Syria: report Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:37 PM PDT ROME (Reuters) - A unit of Italian defense technology group Finmeccanica sold sophisticated communications equipment to Syrian police as recently as February, an Italian weekly reported on Thursday, quoting emails published by Wikileaks. According to l'Espresso, Finmeccanica's Selex Elsag unit sold Syrian authorities its Tetra mobile communications equipment, a system used by military, police and emergency services as well as companies and other organizations. Tetra allows secure, encrypted communications from vehicles and helicopters. ...

U.N. stops short of endorsing intervention in Mali Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:34 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday endorsed West African political efforts to end unrest in Mali but stopped short of backing military intervention in the West African state where al Qaeda-linked militants control significant territory. Ansar Dine and its Salafist allies have hijacked a separatist Tuareg uprising in northern Mali and now control two-thirds of its desert north, which includes the regions of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu where historic and religious sites have been destroyed in recent days. ...

Home sales drop in Toronto and Vancouver, prices up Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:28 PM PDT TORONTO (Reuters) - Home sales in two of Canada's biggest markets slowed sharply in June from the year before, offering more evidence that the country's lengthy real estate boom is softening. Sales in Toronto, Canada's largest city, slumped 13 percent from June 2011, the Toronto Real Estate Board said on Thursday. That decline paled in comparison to the 27 percent plunge in sales in Greater Vancouver, the country's priciest real estate market, where sales hit a 10-year low. ...

Obama knocks China trade policy, Romney on campaign tour Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:25 PM PDT MAUMEE, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took a shot at China and Republican rival Mitt Romney on Thursday, complaining to the World Trade Organization that Beijing is abusing trade laws by imposing more than $3 billion in duties on U.S. automobile exports. "Americans aren't afraid to compete," Obama told an enthusiastic crowd in this northern Ohio city hours after his administration filed the complaint with the WTO. "As long as we're competing on a fair playing field instead of an unfair playing field, we're going to do just fine. We're going to make sure that competition is fair. ...

Recall news Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:23 PM PDT The following recalls have been announced:

Axelrod to ABC: Romney 'Most Secretive Candidate' Since Nixon Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:23 PM PDT MAUMEE, Ohio — Senior Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod today accused Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney of being "the most secretive candidate that we've seen, frankly, since Richard Nixon." He "won't release his tax returns, won't reveal his bundlers, left Massachusetts with the hard drives...

Utah Town Votes on Fate of Mayor's Mustache Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:20 PM PDT Mayor Dan Snarr has put the fate of his 18-inch handlebar mustache up for a town vote. The residents of Murray City, Utah, voted during the 4th of July parade as the mayor and his wife campaigned against each other to save or shave the...

House unveils its 5-year farm and food bill Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:15 PM PDT The House Agriculture Committee on Thursday unveiled its approach for a long-term farm and food bill that would reduce spending by $3.5 billion a year, almost half of that coming from cuts in the federal food stamp program.

Asian nations want to sink South Korea whale hunt plan Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:08 PM PDT PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - South Korea's proposal to resume whaling for scientific research has angered other Asian countries and conservationists who said the practice would skirt a global ban on whale hunting. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she would fight the proposal, which was made on Wednesday at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Panama City, while the United States said it planned to take the matter up with the South Korean government. ...

Northern Ireland police to investigate 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:07 PM PDT BELFAST (Reuters) - A murder investigation is to be launched into the killings of 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers by British soldiers in Londonderry 40 years ago, Northern Ireland's police service said on Thursday. The announcement came a week after Britain's Queen Elizabeth for the first time shook the hand of former Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness, who was there on the day, helping draw a line under a conflict that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians. ...

Mitt Romney, the $100 Million Man Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:00 PM PDT Mitt Romney's campaign announced today that he raised more than $100 million in June, a record for the candidate so far in the 2012 race. President Obama raised $150 million in September 2008, the most ever hauled in a month. Obama hasn't yet announced how...

Romania president accuses government of power grab Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:58 PM PDT BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's president accused the government on Thursday of using an attempt to impeach him as a way of grabbing control of the judiciary and other state institutions. The leftist Social-Liberal Union (USL) government is set to use its parliamentary majority to vote on Friday to suspend right-winger Traian Basescu. A referendum would then be held on his impeachment within a month. ...

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