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57 min ago | The Kansas City Star

From the go, roller-coaster GOP White House race

From the start, it's been a roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.GOP primary voters can catch their collective breath for the next two weeks after spending the past six lurching toward one candidate and then another in an exercise of political soul-searching that appears far from settled.The next contests, in Arizona and ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ron Paul, Representative Michele Bachmann, US News, US House of Representatives, Florida, Florida Government, Mitt Romney, US Senate, Rick Santorum

5 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area

Redistricting by citizens' panel sparks competitive California congressional races

For the first time in two decades, California's newly drawn congressional districts could play a big role in deciding which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Related Topix: Lois Capps, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, Representative John Garamendi, US News, Representative Jeff Denham, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Jerry McNerney, Representative Mary Bono Mack

9 hrs ago | Weyburn This Week

Republican chairman says Mitt Romney wins Maine's caucuses, Paul 2nd

Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster says Mitt Romney has won the Maine caucuses by a slim margin, giving him a much needed boost following losses in three other contests in the past week.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ron Paul, US News, US House of Representatives, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Newt Gingrich

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Boston.com

Paul: Maine result is virtual tie

Ron Paul addressed supporters following after he was projected to finish in second place in today's Republican caucuses in Maine.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ron Paul, US News, US House of Representatives, Mitt Romney

CTV

Obama's birth control policy divides the opposition

For three weeks of heated rhetoric, Republicans cast the president's new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees as an attack on individual liberty.

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Related Topix: US News, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, Mitt Romney, US Senate, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich

SavannahNow

Ga. proposes $5M investment to find tax cheats

A budget proposal from Republican Gov. Nathan Deal would spend roughly $5 million annually on a first-of-its-kind database meant to identify people who steal the identities of others and use that information to falsely claim tax rebates from Georgia authorities.

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Related Topix: Nathan Deal, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, US Governors, Georgia, Georgia Government, Social Security, Personal Finance

WTHI-TV Terre Haute

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Healthcare Law, Law, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Heritage Foundation, Charitable Organizations, US Senate, Rick Santorum

WATE-TV Knoxville

For Romney, a new strategy after a Santorum surge

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is casting himself as a strict conservative as he looks to reset his campaign following three losses to rival Rick Santorum.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney, US Senate, Rick Santorum, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Newt Gingrich, Missouri

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Wheeling News

Producers: Keep Regulations Safe, - Agile'

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio petroleum producers are pushing back against a call by the state attorney general to increase environmental penalties and chemical reporting requirements on the drilling industry.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Mike DeWine, US Senate

WILL-TV Urbana

Ill. Sen. Mark Kirk Moved to Stroke Rehab Center

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has left the Chicago hospital where he was treated after his stroke last month and has been transferred to a rehabilitation center.

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KMBC-TV

Congressman Wants To Delay Ike Memorial

Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf is asking a federal panel to reject architect Frank Gehry's design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, Frank Wolf, US News

Cleveland.com

Weak housing has hurt consumer spending, Bernanke says

Ben Bernanke says declines in home prices have forced many Americans to cut back sharply on spending and warns that the trend could continue to weigh on the economy for years.

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Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, US Politics, Scott Garrett, US News, US House of Representatives

Tri-cityherald.com

Ethics panel looking at chairman's stock trades

FILE - In this April 20, 2010 file photo, Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Spencer Bachus, Financial Services

The Toronto Star

U.S. election debate focuses on social issues over economy

All of a sudden, abortion, contraception and gay marriage are at the centre of American political discourse, with the struggling - though improving - economy pushed to the background.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Abortion, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Rick Santorum, Barack Obama

Log Cabin Democrat

Obama call for manufacturing revival a tough goal

President Barack Obama is making a strong election-year push for an economic revival "built on American manufacturing." But he faces an uphill slog, with little consensus even within his own party on how to do it.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, 9, Ben Bernanke, US Senate, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney

ChannelOne

Conservatives: Romney's OK if Obama is alternative

If Mitt Romney needs some good news in an otherwise lousy week, he might find it in an improbable place: the packed hallways of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Mitt Romney, Activism, Barack Obama, Canisius College, Representative Michele Bachmann, US House of Representatives, Ron Paul

Thu Feb 09, 2012

720 The Voice

Rubio On Contraception: "Isn't A Social Issue, This Is A Constitutional Issue"

"What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams," Sen.

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Related Topix: US Senate, US Politics, Senator Marco Rubio, US News

WSVN-TV Miami Beach

Okla. governor delays execution for 30 days

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has issued a 30-day stay of execution to a death-row inmate scheduled to die next week for the 1986 shooting death of the mother of his two children.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Mary Fallin, US House of Representatives, Mary Fallin, US Governors, Oklahoma Government, Oklahoma, Prison

Click Orlando

Contraception controversy consumes DC, campaign

Congressional Democrats and Republicans escalated their rhetorical war Thursday over a pending federal rule requiring religiously affiliated employers to provide full contraception coverage to women -- one day after hints emerged of a possible compromise between the White House and conservative religious critics.

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Related Topix: US News, Women's Health, Health, US Politics, Nita Lowey, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Diana DeGette, Virginia Foxx

ABC7 KGO

Under attack, Santorum defends 'good' earmarks

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a rally, Thursday, Feb.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

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