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People walk past a homeless war veteran asking for assistance along Hollywood Boulevard in California on August 22, 2012.
Don’t expect a quick improvement in the economy no matter which presidential candidate wins in November. Though voter anxiety over the economy dominates the political climate, neither President Barack Obama nor Republican challenger Mitt Romney has proposed a measure that...
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The new Wall of Wind, category 5 hurricane simulator at the Florida International University's International Hurricane Research Center.
Tropical Storm Isaac, currently blowing northwest through the Caribbean Sea, is forecast to pass Florida’s western coast on Monday and Tuesday – just as delegates, public officials, media and observers open the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa. Thousands of...
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Todd Akin arrives to give a victory speech at his campaign party at the Columns Banquet Center in St. Charles, Mo., in this file photo.
Missouri GOP Senate candidate Todd Akin’s “apology ad” has probably been seen more because of media stories about it than because of his ad buy. According to New York-based Kantar Media’s CMAG, which tracks ads on national network, national cable...
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Mitt Romney, his wife Ann and running mate Paul Ryan arrive in their campaign bus to an event at a farm in Commerce, Michigan, on August 24, 2012.
Mitt Romney has kept his distance from the “birther” movement, those who have persisted in questioning that Barack Obama was born an American citizen and thus may not meet the constitutional requirement for serving as president. But today, Romney alluded...
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Mitt Romney and his wife Ann during a campaign rally at the NASCAR Technical Institute in Mooresville, North Carolina, on August 12, 2012.
Fox News Sunday is promoting what it calls the “first-ever interview with Mitt and Ann Romney from their summer home in Lake Winnipesaukee” in New Hampshire. Excerpts released by the network today mostly featured Ann’s remarks during a breakfast-time interview...
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Workers continue to prepare for next week's Republican National Convention on August 24, 2012 in Tampa, Florida.
Mitt Romney’s advisors are orchestrating their national convention this week to show off their candidate’s softer side, in an effort to combat a summer wave of Democratic attacks that have given voters a negative picture of the Republican presidential candidate....
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Mitt Romney leaves his campaign plane at St. Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 23, 2012.
What is it about “doing fine?” After President Barack Obama uttered those words about the private sector, he heard them again and again for weeks in the echo chamber of TV advertising which is the modern-day presidential campaign. Now Republican...
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An Apple Store in San Francisco.
Are Apple Inc’s products too cool to ban? The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington may decide the issue when it announces today whether Apple’s iPhones, iPads and other devices infringe Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility patents and, if so, whether it...
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A supporter for Mitt Romney during campaign event at Watson Truck and Supply in Hobbs, New Mexico, on August 23, 2012.
That’s the percentage-point margin by which male voters prefer Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and female voters prefer President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election, according to daily Gallup polling from July 30-Aug. 19. Women have voted more Democratic...
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Alaina Carnan of Lexington, Ky., works in the Senate campaign office of Rep. Todd Akin in Chesterfield, Mo.
Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin, who’s been asked to drop out of the race by seemingly everyone in his party’s leadership, used that opposition to fuel a $100,000“ money bomb” ’in donations Wednesday. His party’s presidential candidate, Mitt Romney,...
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