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CHICAGO (AP) — Sweet home Chicago. President Barack Obama is back in the city for the weekend with his wife and daughters in their first visit home as a family in two years. After a late night catching up with friends in their Hyde Park neighborhood, the Obamas on Saturday attended the backyard wedding of […]

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QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Standing in front of his campaign tour bus, Mitt Romney on Saturday told religious conservatives he would do "the opposite" of what President Barack Obama has done on Israel. Romney spent most of the day appealing to voters in Pennsylvania, a battleground state he said he would win in the fall, […]

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — "Tell President Obama: Stop the spending," screams an ad running during the broadcast of NBC's "Today" show in central Virginia. At a break during ABC's "The View," Mitt Romney is praised in a different spot for his "strong leadership." In Tampa, Fla., a commercial in the middle of "Dateline NBC" shows […]

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DENVER (AP) — Crews in northern Colorado braced for powerful fire-fanning winds Saturday as they battle a blaze that has scorched about 85 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history. The destructiveness of the High Park Fire burning 15 miles west of Fort Collins surpassed […]

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BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) — Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The Republican presidential candidate tells CBS" ''Face the Nation" that if he's president, Obama's executive order "would be overtaken by events … by virtue of […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans intend to seek quick repeal of any parts of the health care law that survive a widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling, but don't plan to push replacement measures until after the fall elections or perhaps 2013. Instead, GOP lawmakers cite recent announcements that some insurance companies will retain a few […]

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TROY, Ohio (AP) — Protesters shouted throughout Mitt Romney's campaign appearance with House Speaker John Boehner. Romney on Sunday gave an abbreviated campaign speech from the bed of a pickup truck in Boehner's hometown of Troy. A small but noisy group of protestors shouted throughout his speech, which lated about six minutes. The protesters shouted, […]

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The parents of a third-grade boy are suing a Ft. Worth school district and two employees for forcing their son to shower in front of them because he was “smelly.” Amber and Michael Tilley claim that their eight-year old son was taken to the nurse’s office at Peaster Elementary School where he was forced to […]

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Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans. Moving ahead of the Republican presidential candidate through the same states is a "Middle Class Under the Bus" tour sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. Romney says he'll visit […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies. The […]

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Neighbors say surgeon Timothy Jorden was meticulous about his work, his appearance and even the landscaping at his home. So they suspected something was askew in his life this spring when he began putting less effort into things he previously approached with such care. The affable doctor also became less friendly […]

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A former Army weapons expert pursued after the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend apparently killed himself with a gunshot to the head, quelling the risk of more bloodshed and silencing perhaps the only voice that might have answered the central question: What caused a gifted trauma surgeon widely beloved as a […]