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Watch live: Obama campaigns in Iowa
President Barack Obama spoke to supporters in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Monday as part of a three-day campaign stint in the state. Recent polling suggests that Iowa could be a toss-up this November in...
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Obama tells NASA: ‘I thought about getting a mohawk myself’
During a Monday call to congratulate NASA for successfully landing the Curiosity rover on Mars, President Barack Obama acknowledged the “special mohawk guy” in the control room who had taken the...
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Lost jet skier wanders through JFK airport security
A man whose jet ski died in the waters of Jamacia Bay near JFK International Airport was charged with trespassing Saturday night after he swam to shore, hopped a fence and walked straight up to an...
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Icelandic mayor dons dress in support of Pussy Riot
With less than a week until the verdict in the Pussy Riot trial is expected to arrive, support for the Russian musical group has spread to Iceland, where the capital city’s mayor showed his solidarity...
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Romney’s constitutional amendment disqualifies Ryan for no business experience
A constitutional amendment suggested by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have barred Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) from serving as his running mate. Speaking to supporters in Las...
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Report: ‘Active shooter’ near Texas A&M taken into custody
Officials at Texas A&M University posted early Monday afternoon that an “active shooter” near the campus has been taken into custody. The gunman was first reported at 12:29 PM CST and residents...
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Mexican drug war claims innocent victims
Cristina Roman didn’t know where to begin. When asked how the epic violence and criminal impunity in her native Ciudad Juarez invaded her own life, she paused, then asked: “How far should I go back?”...
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Nobel winners press NBC to cancel Wesley Clark’s war-based ‘reality’ show
Nine Nobel Peace prize winners said Monday that NBC must “immediately” drop a planned “reality” show called “Stars Earn Stripes,” where former four-star general and one-time Democratic presidential...
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Cities use surveillance systems that identify potential ‘terrorists’ with...
It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a CCTV surveillance system that recognises people from their face or walk and analyses whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or...
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Protesters interrupt Ryan in Iowa: ‘Stop the war on the middle class!’
Speaking from the same stage in Iowa where Mitt Romney once declared that “corporation are people,” presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan found himself on Monday being interrupted...
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U.S. holds ‘serious’ talks with Russia on Syria
WASHINGTON — The United States said Thursday it held “serious” talks with Russia about Syria and renewed its call for a political transition after months of disagreement over the bloodshed. Wendy...
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North Korea could produce dozens more nukes: study
WASHINGTON — North Korea could build an arsenal of up to 48 nuclear weapons, several times more than it has now, if the communist state were able to step up its program unchecked, a US think tank said...
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Romney, Obama campaign spar again over taxes
WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Mitt Romney offered his fullest explanation yet about his tax status Thursday, saying he paid at least 13 percent a year over the past decade, but President Barack...
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ACLU sues West Virginia school over single-sex classrooms
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against a middle school for allegedly violating the Constitution and federal law by segregating classes by sex. Van Devender Middle School in...
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Paul Ryan ‘grew up on Ayn Rand’
Ayn Rand is the high priestess of undiluted capitalism and a champion of looking after number one. With an estimated 25m copies of her books in print, including Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead,...
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Picasso piece rediscovered after 50 years in Indiana museum storage
It had sat unnoticed in storage for almost half a century after being mistaken for a work by the little-known, and non-existent, artist Gemmaux. But a closer inspection of the glasswork at Indiana’s...
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Poll: 55 percent of tea partiers support concealed guns in churches
WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of Americans, particularly whites, are adamant about the constitutional right to bear arms, a poll showed this week amid a rash of shootings across the United...
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Axelrod blasts Romney’s ‘penchant for secrecy’
David Axelrod, Obama’s senior campaign strategist, continued to hammer Mitt Romney on Thursday for refusing to release more tax returns. “Gov. Romney’s father, George Romney, set a standard back in...
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Lilly Ledbetter: Paul Ryan scares me to death
Thursday on MSNBC, women’s equality activist Lilly Ledbetter blasted Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for voting against the Fair Pay Act, which was named after her. “Paul Ryan is very pleased with himself that...
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Jon Stewart rips apart voter suppression laws in Pennsylvania and Ohio
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted Republicans in Pennsylvania and Ohio for attempting to suppress votes in the upcoming November elections. Noting that there have...
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