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• Romney has $50.4 million for fall sprint
• Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America
• Who are Mitt Romney's 47 percent? A breakdown
• Ethics panel to hold hearing in Maxine Waters case
• Mexico's next leader wants more trade with Brazil, not less
• Supreme Court won't halt execution over Texas car wash killings
• House bill to increase high-tech visas defeated
• Portugal ruling party's popularity hammered by taxes
• Female U.S. military deserter to Canada arrested at U.S. border
• Obama: not getting immigration reform was "biggest failure"
• SEC sues ex-broker for insider trading ahead of Burger King deal
• Obama's record in Muslim world: strides, setbacks
• Republicans, IG take Justice Dept. to task
• Obama Blames GOP for Inability to Pass Immigration Reform
• House moves to reverse administration welfare plan
• US: World can't afford crisis in Asian seas
• Panetta in New Zealand for military cooperation talks
• PIMCO's Gross sees no end to Fed's QE until unemployment drops to 6 percent
• Russian police detain nine at convicted Russian punk rock band icons exhibition
• Clinton forms panel to investigate Benghazi attack
• U.S. turns to TV ads to spread message in protest-hit Pakistan
• Obama solidifies lead over Romney, ahead by five points: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• Romney has $50.4 million for fall sprint
• Prosecutors drop fight for notebook from accused Colorado shooter
• Obama's 'Most Important' First-Term Lesson: 'Can't Change Washington From Inside'
• Nigerian governors to block oil wealth fund in court
• Obama courts Latinos, casts Romney as out of touch
• Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America
• U.S. probes whether Benghazi attackers had inside help
• Pakistan to talk counterterrorism with US, Afghans
• Iran attacked at U.N. Security Council over Syria aid
• Lawmaker says sees way to avoid "Fast and Furious" court case
• Pussy Riot supporters seeking US sanctions

Romney has $50.4 million for fall sprint Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT Republican Mitt Romney has about $50.4 million to spend on the final weeks of the campaign, though he still has to pay back $15 million in debt.

Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:14 PM PDT President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could cause teacher strikes to spread from Chicago to other cities. The Republican countered that the U.S. economy "is bumping along the bottom" under Obama, and he predicted victory in the fall.

Who are Mitt Romney's 47 percent? A breakdown Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT Just which 47 percent of Americans was Mitt Romney talking about? It's hard to say. He lumped together three different ways of sorting people in what he's called less-than-elegant remarks.

Ethics panel to hold hearing in Maxine Waters case Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT The House Ethics Committee will hold a hearing Friday in the case of Rep. Maxine Waters, a senior Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, who disputes allegations she tried to steer U.S. bailout money to a bank where her husband owns stock.

Mexico's next leader wants more trade with Brazil, not less Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:15 PM PDT BRASILIA (Reuters) - Latin America's two largest economies should be expanding rather than curbing trade flows, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto said on Thursday in veiled criticism of a Brazilian restriction on Mexican car imports. Brazil modified an auto pact with Mexico in March to slap a quota on surging imports of Mexican-made cars, a move that many saw as a return to protectionist policies of the past. Mexico agreed to cut its auto sales to Brazil to about $1.55 billion a year between 2012 and 2014. ...

Supreme Court won't halt execution over Texas car wash killings Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:10 PM PDT (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt the scheduled execution of a man convicted over execution-style killings at a Texas car wash 12 years ago. Without comment, the court rejected a request for a stay by Robert Wayne Harris, 40, who is expected to face lethal injection on Thursday evening. Prosecutors said Harris, during a robbery at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving, Texas, on March 20, 2000, shot six employees, five fatally at close range, after forcing them to the floor. Harris was convicted in two of the deaths. ...

House bill to increase high-tech visas defeated Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:10 PM PDT Democratic opposition on Thursday led to the defeat of a House Republican bill that would have granted more visas to foreign science and technology students but would have eliminated another visa program that is available for less-educated foreigners, many from Africa.

Portugal ruling party's popularity hammered by taxes Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:06 PM PDT LISBON/PORTO (Reuters) - The popularity of Portugal's ruling Social Democrats slumped to a record low on Thursday, prompting business leaders to call for a rethink on unpopular tax rises needed to meet the targets of an EU/IMF bailout. The Social Democrats received 24 percent support, down from 36 percent in June and seven points behind the opposition Socialists, in the Diario de Noticias daily's opinion poll. The rightist CDS party, part of the Social Democrats' ruling coalition, edged up to 7 percent from 6 percent. ...

Female U.S. military deserter to Canada arrested at U.S. border Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT (Reuters) - The first female U.S. soldier to seek refuge in Canada rather than return to duty in Iraq was arrested at the U.S. border in northern New York State on Thursday after losing her bid to remain in Canada, according to an advocacy group that had campaigned on her behalf. Kimberly Rivera, a 30-year-old private who served three months in Iraq and came to Canada while on leave in 2007, was taken into custody at the Thousand Islands Bridge border station about 30 miles north of Watertown, N.Y., said Michelle Robidoux, spokeswoman with the War Resisters Support Campaign. ...

Obama: not getting immigration reform was "biggest failure" Posted: 20 Sep 2012 03:01 PM PDT CORAL GABLES, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told a Hispanic audience on Thursday that his inability to overhaul U.S. immigration laws was the biggest shortcoming of his first four years in office, but he blamed Republican lawmakers for standing in the way. "As you remind me, my biggest failure so far is we haven't gotten comprehensive immigration reform done," Obama said in an interview with Univision, the Spanish-language television network. "But it's not for lack trying or desire," he added. ...

SEC sues ex-broker for insider trading ahead of Burger King deal Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators on Thursday sued a former stockbroker who worked for Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney , accusing him of insider trading ahead of a Burger King deal. The Securities and Exchange Commission said it obtained a court order freezing the assets of the broker, Waldyr Da Silva Prado Neto, who had allegedly put his Miami home up for sale and begun transferring his assets out of the country. ...

Obama's record in Muslim world: strides, setbacks Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT Images of angry mobs in Arab cities burning American flags and attacking U.S. diplomatic posts suggest the Muslim world is no less enraged at the United States than when President George W. Bush had to duck shoes hurled at him in Baghdad.

Republicans, IG take Justice Dept. to task Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT House Republicans eagerly joined the Justice Department's inspector general in taking the agency to task Thursday for its bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that allowed hundreds of weapons to reach Mexican drug rings.

Obama Blames GOP for Inability to Pass Immigration Reform Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:53 PM PDT MIAMI, Fla. — President Obama today said his failure to push comprehensive immigration reform as promised was the biggest failure of his first term but blamed Republicans in Congress for the lack of progress. Seeeking to appeal to Latino voters at a Univision News forum,...

House moves to reverse administration welfare plan Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:50 PM PDT House Republicans on Thursday followed up Mitt Romney's remarks about people who get federal aid with a bill that would reverse what they call President Barack Obama's relaxation of welfare-to-work requirements.

US: World can't afford crisis in Asian seas Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:49 PM PDT The world can't afford a conflict sparked by the rumbling sovereignty disputes in the seas of East Asia, a senior U.S. official warned on Thursday.

Panetta in New Zealand for military cooperation talks Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT Auckland (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in New Zealand on Friday for talks on military cooperation between the two nations, the first Pentagon chief to visit in 30 years since before Wellington barred its ports to nuclear warships. Panetta plans to hold talks with Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman and other senior leaders to explore deeper U.S. military engagement with New Zealand as the United States rebalances its forces to the Asia-Pacific as part of a new military strategy. ...

PIMCO's Gross sees no end to Fed's QE until unemployment drops to 6 percent Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:43 PM PDT (Reuters) - PIMCO'S Bill Gross, who runs the world's largest bond fund, said on Thursday that he does not see the Federal Reserve pulling back from its latest round of quantitative easing until the U.S. unemployment rate drops to at least 6 percent. Speaking at the IndexUniverse's Inside Fixed Income conference in Newport Beach, California, Gross said regardless of what investors think of the Fed's moves, "we are going to enter a reflationary cycle rather than a deflationary one, so investors should tilt their portfolios that way. ...

Russian police detain nine at convicted Russian punk rock band icons exhibition Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained nine Orthodox activists trying to prevent people attending the opening on Thursday of a Moscow exhibition of modern-style icons inspired by the Pussy Riot punk band. Three members of the all-female band were jailed for two years last month after storming the altar of Moscow's main cathedral. They had staged a "punk prayer", calling on the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of President Vladimir Putin. ...

Clinton forms panel to investigate Benghazi attack Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:39 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she was forming a panel to investigate the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. officials. The panel, whose creation is generally required by law when someone is killed or seriously injured at a U.S. mission abroad, will be chaired by Thomas Pickering, a retired diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, El Salvador, Jordan and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. ...

U.S. turns to TV ads to spread message in protest-hit Pakistan Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:37 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has paid Pakistani television stations to run advertisements featuring President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, hoping to soothe public opinion in a country hit by protests against an anti-Islam movie made in California, the State Department said on Thursday. The U.S. embassy in Islamabad spent about $70,000 to run the announcement, which features clips of Obama and Clinton underscoring U.S. respect for religion and declaring the U.S. government had nothing to do with the movie, it said. ...

Obama solidifies lead over Romney, ahead by five points: Reuters/Ipsos poll Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama maintains a lead of 5 percentage points over Republican Mitt Romney as he solidifies his advantage in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. Obama leads Romney among likely voters by a margin of 48 percent to 43 percent, the daily online tracking poll showed. Obama has led the poll since September 7, shortly after the Democratic convention. "First it was a bump and then it was a post-convention bump and then it was the remainder of the bump, and now it's just a lead," Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said. ...

Romney has $50.4 million for fall sprint Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT Republican Mitt Romney has about $50.4 million to spend on the final weeks of the campaign, though he still has to pay back $15 million in debt.

Prosecutors drop fight for notebook from accused Colorado shooter Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:24 PM PDT CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Prosecutors dropped their legal fight on Thursday for access to a notebook that accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes sent to a university psychiatrist before the shooting, saying legal wrangling over it would delay the case for months. Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student, is accused of opening fire on July 20 at a midnight screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, a Denver suburb. Twelve people were killed and 58 wounded in the attack. ...

Obama's 'Most Important' First-Term Lesson: 'Can't Change Washington From Inside' Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:21 PM PDT President Obama says the "most important" lesson he learned during his first term in the White House is that "you can't change Washington from the inside." "You can only change it from the outside," Obama said at a "Meet the Candidates" forum hosted by the...

Nigerian governors to block oil wealth fund in court Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:18 PM PDT ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's state governors vowed on Thursday to go to court to stop the government putting oil revenues into a sovereign wealth fund. Africa's top crude producer has been moving closer to joining its OPEC partners in creating a sovereign wealth fund for long-term investment of its oil cash. The governors, who enjoy luxurious lifestyles and wield huge patronage, had been opposed to the fund because they feared it would reduce their share of the oil money. ...

Obama courts Latinos, casts Romney as out of touch Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:15 PM PDT President Barack Obama said rival Mitt Romney hasn't "gotten around a lot" if he believes that 47 percent of Americans consider themselves victims and entitled to government help. Addressing a large Latino television audience Thursday, the president also said his "biggest failure" was an inability to win an overhaul of the immigration system.

Obama suggests Romney is out of touch with America Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:14 PM PDT President Barack Obama cast Mitt Romney on Thursday as an out-of-touch challenger for the White House and an advocate of education cuts that could cause teacher strikes to spread from Chicago to other cities. The Republican countered that the U.S. economy "is bumping along the bottom" under Obama, and he predicted victory in the fall.

U.S. probes whether Benghazi attackers had inside help Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are investigating possible collusion between militants who launched a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya and locally hired Libyan personnel guarding the facility, three U.S. officials said. So far there is no proof that the attackers, who killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. officials, were helped by Libyan security personnel hired by the consulate. One official said the Obama administration was playing down this possibility. ...

Pakistan to talk counterterrorism with US, Afghans Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:10 PM PDT Pakistan's foreign minister revealed Thursday that her country would soon hold confidential talks with the United States and Afghanistan to improve a three-way counterterrorism relationship beset by misunderstandings, including one over the Pakistan-based Haqqani network that Washington considers the greatest threat to Afghan stability. But she refused to say whether her government was ready to take any action against the militants.

Iran attacked at U.N. Security Council over Syria aid Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:09 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Western members of the U.N. Security Council blasted Iran on Thursday for providing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with weapons to help him crush an 18-month-long uprising by rebels determined to topple his government. "Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told the 15-nation council during a meeting on the world body's Iran sanctions regime. She cited a May 2012 report by the U.N. ...

Lawmaker says sees way to avoid "Fast and Furious" court case Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:06 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican lawmaker leading a U.S. congressional probe into a botched anti-gun trafficking operation on Thursday suggested he was willing to call off a courtroom showdown with Attorney General Eric Holder if the Justice Department shows more cooperation. Representative Darrell Issa, who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, made the comments at a hearing on a government watchdog report released this week on the operation nicknamed "Fast and Furious. ...

Pussy Riot supporters seeking US sanctions Posted: 20 Sep 2012 02:04 PM PDT The husband of one of the imprisoned members of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot wants U.S. sanctions against Russian officials involved in prosecuting the musicians.

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