Dated: January 27th 2012 By Lolita C. Baldor
WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties. In a report for release Friday, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration partners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By Kimberly Hefling and Jim Kuhnhenn
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - President Barack Obama called Friday for an overhaul of the higher education financial aid system, warning that colleges and universities that fail to control spiraling tuition costs could lose federal funds. The election year proposal was also a political appeal to young people and working families, two important voting blocs [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By AP Staff
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - A judge ruled that a city council candidate in Arizona must be removed from the ballot due to lack of English proficiency. The ruling on Wednesday came after the San Luis City Council approved a motion Jan. 13 asking for verification that Alejandrina Cabrera met the requirement of a state law [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By Andrew Miga
WASHINGTON (AP) - Retiring Rep. Barney Frank, a gay pioneer in Congress, said Thursday that he will marry his longtime partner, Jim Ready. Frank spokesman Harry Gural said the liberal Massachusetts Democrat's wedding will be in his home state, but that no date had been set. Ready, 42, lives in Ogunquit, Maine. He has a [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By David Espo
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - An aggressive Mitt Romney repeatedly challenged Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich in a fast-paced campaign debate Thursday night, ridiculing the former House speaker's call to build costly projects in key primary states and to colonize the moon. Romney vehemently denied Gingrich's own accusation that he anti-immigrant — more so than any [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By AP Staff
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Newt Gingrich says he does not believe rival Mitt Romney's proposal to allow illegal immigrants to voluntarily deport themselves would be successful, adding that his presidential rival is the "most anti-immigrant" candidate. Gingrich and Romney clashed in the opening moments of Thursday's debate in Florida. Gingrich says the United States [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By AP Staff
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Winning the White House is a package deal, so the Republican presidential candidates are eager to talk up their spouses as ideal first ladies. Each of the four contenders was asked during Thursday night's debate why his wife would be strong in the role. Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By Robert Burns and Donna Cassata
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon leaders outlined a plan Thursday for absorbing $487 billion in defense cuts over the coming decade by shrinking U.S. ground forces, slowing the purchase of a next-generation stealth fighter and retiring older planes and ships. In a bid to pre-empt election-year Republican criticism, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the plan shifts [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By Chris Hawley
NEW YORK - Muslim groups are calling for New York's police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say puts their religion and its adherents in a bad light. About 20 activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday and criticized Ray Kelly for giving [...]
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Dated: January 27th 2012 By Jim Vertuno and Will Weissert
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry's White House bid tarnished his image enough that he's about as popular in his solidly Republican home state as President Barack Obama, a poll published Thursday shows. Perry's approval rating after his failed presidential bid has fallen to 40 percent, a 10-point drop from a year ago [...]
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