AP - Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.
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Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney? (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:33pm EST
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Illinois' audio recording law under scrutiny (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:59pm EST
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AP - Tiawanda Moore didn't think she was doing anything wrong. When two Chicago police officers tried to stop her from filing a sexual harassment complaint against one of their colleagues in 2010, she wanted to record her conversation with them on her smartphone.
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Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:22pm EST
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AP - Tea party activists long skeptical of Mitt Romney are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after giving up on finding a candidate they like better. -
Gingrich shunned lobbying, but hired lobbyists (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:13pm EST
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AP - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says his consulting group never lobbied for clients. But his business hired state and federal lobbyists to work with clients, and some staff left to take lobbying jobs, according to lobbying disclosures and corporate reports.
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US oil prices fall below $97 (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:08pm EST
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AP - U.S. oil prices fell below $97 per barrel Monday as growing supplies offset moves by President Barack Obama and other Western leaders to make it tougher for Iran to sell crude. Here's how energy contracts traded. -
Tax reform in this election year: It's not likely (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:43pm EST
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AP - Tax reform sounds like a good idea to lots of people, but where to start? Eliminate the popular deduction for home mortgages? End the write-off for charitable contributions? How about expanding the Social Security payroll tax?
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FACT CHECK: Gingrich overstates his Fla. results (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:05pm EST
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AP - After losing Saturday's Nevada caucus race, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich sought solace in what he called an encouraging statistic: that his supporters were turning out to vote more enthusiastically than those of his chief rival, Mitt Romney.
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Ethics panel punts on Buchanan (Politico)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:58pm EST
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Politico - There won't be a special investigative subcommittee to look into allegations against the congressman. -
Sarah Palin Writes About Her Son in Newsweek -- and Heads Explode (ContributorNetwork)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:36pm EST
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | After tweeting angrily about how Newsweek had run an article about "dumb" critics of Barack Obama by Andrew Sullivan, a "Trig Truther," Sarah Palin has published her own piece in the same magazine about her special-needs son. -
Santorum, Romney spar before Minn. (Politico)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:08pm EST
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Politico - Santorum argues that if Romney could cost Republicans the general election if he becomes the nominee. -
Dutch hopes grow for 125-mile speedskating race (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:43pm EST
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AP - Sports events across Europe are falling victim to the continent's deep freeze, but the Dutch are ecstatic, hoping that the revered "Eleven Cities" speedskating race can be staged later this month for the first time in 15 years.
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Hoekstra's broken English ad draws more criticism (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:49am EST
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AP - A coalition of black ministers in Detroit called Monday for U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra to apologize for his Super Bowl ad featuring a young Asian woman speaking broken English to describe the impact of the Democratic incumbent's economic policies. -
Obama signs executive order freezing Iran assets in U.S. (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:39am EST
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Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday imposing new, stricter sanctions on Iran and its central bank, saying a broader asset freeze was necessary because Iranian banks were concealing transactions. -
Obama bemoans wife being dragged into politics (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:12am EST
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AP - President Barack Obama says one of the toughest parts about being president is that his wife has been dragged into the "political realm."
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2 German men jailed for British terror offenses (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:09am EST
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AP - A British judge has jailed two German men after they pleaded guilty to terror charges. -
Super Bowl obscenity a mess for FCC (Politico)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:59am EST
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Politico - Singer M.I.A.'s act is likely to be reviewed. -
Obama: US has 'very good' intelligence on Iran (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:50am EST
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AP - President Barack Obama said the U.S. has a "very good estimate" of when Iran could complete work on a nuclear weapon, but cautioned that there are still many unanswered questions about Tehran's inner workings.
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Romney adds to delegate lead after Nevada victory (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:12am EST
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AP - Mitt Romney has added to his lead in the race for delegates now that Republican officials in Nevada finished the vote count from Saturday's presidential caucuses. -
Obama: Negative ads will have role in 2012 race (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:36am EST
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AP - President Barack Obama says the rise of political action committees guarantees that there will be a lot of negative ads in the lead-up to November's presidential election. -
Poll: Obama over 50% vs. Mitt (Politico)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:35am EST
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Politico - It's the first time since July that he's garnered more than half the votes in a matchup with Romney. -
Romney latest pol to join wait-let-me-explain club (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:37am EST
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AP - Mitt Romney's remark that he's not worried about the very poor, the latest gaffe in a campaign rich with blunders, joins a long list of wait-let-me-explain episodes in presidential election history.
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GOP ends NV vote count; Romney on top with 50% (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:15am EST
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AP - Nevada Republicans have finally finished counting the votes in their Saturday presidential caucuses.
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FACT CHECK: Obama, GOP spin recent energy stats (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:34am EST
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AP - You wouldn't know it from the Republicans, but these are boom times for American energy.