Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, once seen as a strong contender for the Republican nomination to face Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 2012 election, dropped out a day after a disappointing showing in Iowa’s straw poll. Some experts…
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Texas Governor Rick Perry will seek the 2012 Republican nomination for U.S. president, his spokesman said on Thursday. The eventual Republican nominee will seek to deny Democratic President Barack Obama a second term in office in the November 2012 election….
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President Barack Obama honored 30 U.S. soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan as their remains returned home on Tuesday in a private ceremony. Obama and top military officials joined families in witnessing what the Pentagon called the “dignified…
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Leaders are ending the page program that began in the 1820s, allowing high school students to serve as messengers. Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote House members Monday that the Internet and e-mail have left…
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There’s lots of buzz that Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer would be a natural presidential candidate in 2016. On Obama’s policies in Afghanistan, where a helicopter was shot down over the weekend, killing 30 American special forces, he told our Suzi…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29X9AFPKgL4 The United States lost its top-tier AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s last Friday in an unprecedented blow to the world’s largest economy in the wake of a political battle that took the country to the brink of…
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The economy had a better-than-expected net gain of 117,000 jobs in July and an unemployment rate dip to 9.1 percent, that came solely from private-sector hiring, as a revenue-starved public sector drags employment down. July’s growth of 117,000 is a…
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President Barack Obama turned his 50th birthday into a 2012 campaign fundraising bonanza. Obama made clear in remarks to a big audience at a music auditorium and in a video conference with supporters scattered across the country that he will…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzwHm4e8mao Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, absent from the U.S. Capitol since she was shot in the head in January. The Arizona Democrat voted “yes” on the bill, which increases the nation’s $14. 3 trillion in borrowing authority. “I have closely followed…
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