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Mitt Romney visited the Middlesex Truck and Coach Company in Roxbury.
In presidential politicking, nothing takes the place of a well-executed photo op to drive home a point or put a face on a central issue. Mitt Romney chose a family-owned trucking company in a blue-collar section of Boston today to...
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Ursula Burns, chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox Corp.
Written by Molly Shiels The campaign fuss over the president’s Jobs Council — the one that hasn’t met for several months — led to a new question today: Does the White House even know who is on its Jobs and...
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The cast of the Jersey Shore.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has made his disdain for MTV’s “Jersey Shore” very clear. He also has some words for those who suggested his own recent outburst on the boardwalk was out of line: I didn’t lose my cool....
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Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin during the Republican Party of Florida's fundraising event in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
The big decision pending for the Mitt Romney camp, of course, is who he’ll pick as his wingman on the Republican presidential ticket. Still, a plethora of other matters await resolution over the next few weeks, including the lineup of...
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A job fair in Brooklyn, New York.
That’s the percentage of people who said this month that the U.S. economy is worsening, according to the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. It’s the highest percentage since January and up from 33 percent in June. About 25 percent said the...
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Ann Romney during a dressage event.
Updated at 12:45 pm and 2 pm EDT Messing with Ann Romney, it appears, can get messy. First there was Hilary Rosen, the Democratic activist who said that Mitt Romney’s wife, a mother of five, had never worked a day...
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Back-to-school shopping in Colma, California.
Are you better off than you were four years ago? How about nine years ago? The numbers on back-to-school shopping show a bigger increase in spending by U.S. consumers than at any time since 2003. The numbers also conceal what...
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Actor Morgan Freeman at the 'The Dark Knight Rises' world premiere in New York City.
When Priorities USA Action, the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama, reports its $6 million monthly haul to the Federal Election Commission, one of the donors listed will be the actor Morgan Freeman. He gave $1 million. “President Obama has done...
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Mitt Romney in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
A few storm warnings for the president: – From the New York Times and CBS: Voter disapproval of President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy is hurting his re-election prospects and improving the outlook for Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a New...
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Pedestrians pass in front the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. building in New York.
If only revolving doors could generate electricity. It’s been almost two years since the Dodd-Frank legislation was signed into law, and regulators at the Treasury, the Fed and the CFTC have reported meeting with the 20 biggest banks 1,298 times...
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