Dated: February 4th 2012 By Cristina Silva
LAS VEGAS (AP) - In Nevada, people could once buy homes and feed their families with money earned from free-spending tourists who flocked to Sin City for relaxed gambling and liquor laws. But things have changed dramatically in the four years since the White House race last came to this state. Now, Nevadans are struggling [...]
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Dated: February 4th 2012 By Kasie Hunt
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) - Mitt Romney talks about his love for America almost every day. Twice now, the Republican presidential front-runner has even broken into song. "Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain," Romney crooned Wednesday, standing on stage in a warehouse here as the crowd sang along. He did the same [...]
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Dated: February 4th 2012 By Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites. Officers arrived and placed barricades around McPherson Square, a federal park near the White House where demonstrators have camped since October. They were not evicting the protesters. [...]
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Dated: February 4th 2012 By Paul J. Weber
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The once-a-decade fight over political boundaries in Texas has been so frenetic that a Democrat who bolted for the GOP saw his state House district redrawn solidly blue, opted against re-election, then got new hope from the U.S. Supreme Court that it might go red again. And amid all the confusion, [...]
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Dated: February 4th 2012 By Chris Hawley
NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based solely on their religion. The letter urged Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to investigate NYPD's surveillance operations, revealed by [...]
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Dated: February 4th 2012 By AP Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has spent time with around 25 wealthy donors who paid $35,800 each to talk with him behind closed doors at a Washington hotel. The hourlong fundraiser Friday afternoon at the upscale Jefferson Hotel near the White House was closed to press coverage. Obama has been courting donors large and [...]
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Dated: February 3rd 2012 By David Crary
NEW YORK (AP) - The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity on Friday abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The startling decision came after three days of virulent criticism that resounded across the Internet, jeopardizing Komen's iconic image. "We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast [...]
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Dated: February 3rd 2012 By Andrew Miga
WASHINGTON (AP) - Roseanne Barr said Thursday she's running for the Green Party's presidential nomination — and it's no joke. The actress-comedian said in a statement that she's a longtime supporter of the party and looks forward to working with people who share her values. She said the two major parties aren't serving the American people. "The Democrats and Republicans [...]
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Dated: February 3rd 2012 By Raphael Satter
LONDON (AP) - They trade jokes, chuckle and talk shop about a hacker plot called "Project Mayhem." But at the heart of the conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was a strategy aimed at bringing down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, which has launched a series of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. [...]
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Dated: February 3rd 2012 By Deb Riechmann
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban are not beaten, the peace process is bogged down in internal squabbles and Afghan security forces aren't ready to take control of the nation. Yet the U.S. and its partners are talking about speeding up — rather than slowing down — their exit from the war. It's becoming dramatically [...]
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