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Romney pressed on abortion question
DEFIANCE, Ohio (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney is renewing his focus on the nation's economy while facing continued pressure to break his silence on a GOP Senate candidate's statement that any pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended."...
Tags: Television Stations, Republican Party, U.S. Electoral College, Entertainment, Politics
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Family Spokesman: George McGovern dead at age 90
WALTER R. MEARS,Associated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972,...Tags: U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, Petroleum Industry, George W. Bush, Behavioral Conditions
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Political, legal fights over school vouchers' fate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable. He was failing in his neighborhood...
Tags: Students, John Boehner, Crime, Law and Justice, Roman Catholicism, Mitch Daniels
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FACT FINDER: Local economist skeptical about president's control over gas prices
WSBT-TV ReporterGas prices are one issue on the campaign trail. Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich even said if he got into office he would be able to lower gas prices. Can he really do that? Economist Lane David, a professor at IU South Bend, is skeptical. He...Tags: Indiana University South Bend, Politics, Elections, Newt Gingrich
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Betty Ford's body in Michigan for 2nd service
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Betty Ford returned Wednesday to the city where she grew up and wed the man who became the only president from Michigan, prompting hundreds to line the streets in front of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum as her...Tags: Barbara Bush, Diseases and Illnesses, Behavioral Conditions, White House, Breast Cancer
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Post office seeking input from public on sorting site
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND -- U.S. Postal Service carriers and their fellow workers will get a chance to deliver their thoughts on the possible closing of the South Bend Processing and Distribution Center. A public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, Government Postal Delivery, FedEx Corporation, Mail Order Industry, Financial and Business Services
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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Joe Biden, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Politics
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Mail Call - May 24
“Starting 2006 to 2012, Morgan County took 10 steps forward. In the last four months, Morgan County has taken 30 steps backward.” — Berkeley Springs, W.Va. “This is another quote I decided to call in. Yes, indeed, children do...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Pension and Welfare, Politics, White House
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Making sense of scandals
The Obama administration's first term was remarkably free of scandals. The second term is making up for lost time. Some of the President Barack Obama's harshest critics have even begun comparing him to President Richard Nixon, a byword for corruption,...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Internal Revenue Service, Richard M. Daley, University of Chicago, Politics
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ANALYSIS-In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
Reuters(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared...Tags: Eric Holder, Internal Revenue Service, Central Intelligence Agency, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
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A 'Meet the Press' moment
Change of SubjectFrom the transcript: NBC'S MEET THE PRESS" HOST DAVID GREGORY: Peggy Noonan, you wrote something (in your Wall Street Journal column) this week that really struck me in your column on Friday. And I want to put it up on...... -
Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
ReutersWASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared that she had done nothing wrong - but said she did not intend to testify. Her defiance only...Tags: Eric Holder, Internal Revenue Service, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Department of Justice
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