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Mary Matalin: Republicans will defeat Akin with write-in candidate
GOP operative Mary Matalin on Sunday said that the Republican Party would mount a third-party or write-in campaign to defeat Rep. Todd Akin (R), whose bid to defeat Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is in...
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Rove: Obama ‘never said thank you’ when Romney admitted he was born in U.S.
Republican strategist Karl Rove on Saturday complained that President Barack Obama had “never said thank you” when GOP hopeful Mitt Romney acknowledged he was a U.S. citizen. Speaking to the hosts of...
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Ron Paul declines to endorse Romney, spurns convention speaking slot
Ron Paul refused to accept the terms demanded by Republican convention planners in order for him to receive a speaking slot at this week’s convention, with Paul in part spurning the invite because he...
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Women of Togo call for nationwide sex strike
LOME — Women from the Let’s Save Togo coalition called Sunday on all females in the country to refrain from sex for a week to force Togolese men into backing the group during their demonstrations....
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Democrats still outpace GOP in use of social media
TAMPA, Florida — The US Republican and Democratic conventions have traditionally targeted television viewers above all — but this year’s will see an unprecedented effort to reach voters via social...
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Neil Armstrong had little confidence in privatized space travel
WASHINGTON — More than 40 years after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, humans continue to push the frontiers of space exploration but missions are being tempered by costs, a trend that concerned the...
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Israel refuses Western pro-Palestinian activists access to West Bank
By Kamal Taha ALLENBY BRIDGE CROSSING, Jordan — Israel and Jordan on Sunday barred pro-Palestinian US and European activists from trying to cross into the West Bank to deliver aid to students, a...
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Man with machete arrested near Republican convention
The Associated Press reported on Sunday afternoon that police officers had arrested a man spotrted with a machete strapped to his leg near the location of the Republican National Convention in Tampa....
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Watch: Pre-convention Tea Party rally in Tampa
The opening of the Republican National Convention may have been postponed because of Tropical Storm Isaac, but the Tea Party faithful are soldiering on in the teeth of the storm. The Tea Party Unity...
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Rule changes forced through by Romney campaign at RNC provoke grassroots...
Rule changes pushed through by the Romney campaign that appear designed to prevent an insurgent candidacy like that of Ron Paul from mounting any meaningful challenge to the party establishment in the...
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Online dealers illegally trade in endangered wildlife
Bashful and skittish, the Kaiser’s spotted newt is intriguing and beautiful. With only around 1,000 adults left in the wild in just four mountain streams in Iran, it is also critically endangered. But...
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Syria president backs work of ‘impartial’ Red Cross
President Bashar al-Assad told Red Cross chief Peter Maurer on Tuesday that he supports the work of the aid group in Syria so long as it remains “impartial and independent,” state televisionreported....
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Quebec separatists look to sweep elections
Quebec’s separatists look to sweep back into power in elections Tuesday, buoyed by rising frustration with the current leadership and months of student protests over a planned tuition hike. Voters in...
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Wildfire near Los Angeles destroys 4,000 acres
Around 700 firefighters are battling a wildfire near Los Angeles that forced the evacuation of hundreds of tourists camping over the holiday weekend, officials said. The fire at the Angeles National...
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Prince Harry jokes about nude photos at charity event
Prince Harry made light of his recent exploits in his first public appearance since naked photographs of him in a Las Vegas hotel room surfaced on the internet. Speaking at a London awards ceremony...
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Anonymous claims hack caught FBI spying on millions of Apple customers
Hackers with the amorphous protest movement “Anonymous” and “AntiSec” said Monday night they caught the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) red-handed spying on Apple customers, and published over 1...
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Moon’s death threatens Unification Church stability
The death of Sun Myung Moon robs his Unification Church of the glue that sustained its global following as a cohesive religious and financial force even as membership dwindled from its 1980s peak,...
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UN urges action to stave off global food crisis
The United Nations warned Tuesday of a possible repeat of the 2007-2008 food crisis and called on world leaders to act quickly to prevent a catastrophe which would affect tens of millions of people....
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Top immigration aide steps down amid sexual harassment allegations
The chief of staff for the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department has resigned amid accusations of intimidating and sexually harassing male employees. According to the Associated Press,...
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First Lady Michelle Obama first up at DNC
Democrats kick off their 2012 convention Tuesday, with First Lady Michelle Obama firing the first shots of a three-day salvo aimed at breaking the electoral deadlock with rival Republicans. With just...
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