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Anna Wintour at the Giorgio Armani Autumn/Winter 2012/2013 fashion in Milan.
Thank you note to Anna Wintour, and others: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama, is down to her last $100,000 in campaign debt, new Federal Election Commission reports show. The debt...
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Mitt Romney during a campaign event at Horizontal Wireline Services on July 17, 2012 in Irwin, Pa.
The business of business is business. And the business of government? President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney part ways on that question — with Obama pressing the highest-earning Americans to pay more taxes and Romney insisting on lowering the...
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People line up to purchase tickets to enter the beach in Belmar, New Jersey.
New Jersey voters give President Obama a 49 percent to 38 percent lead over Mitt Romney in the latest Quinnipiac University poll released today, helped by the youth vote. Voters in the Garden State under the age of 35, a...
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Protestors outside a hotel where Mitt Romney is holding a fundraiser in Philadelphia.
Updated at 11 am EDT President Barack Obama’s chief pollster, Joel Benenson, says Mitt Romney’s reluctance to release additional tax returns is a character issue because American voters expect more transparency from their candidates. Benenson also defends the campaign’s attacks...
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Kelly Romney, a second cousin of Mitt Romney, in the Mormon community of Colonia Juarez, Mexico. The candidate's father, George, was born in Mexico, and he still has extended family there, relatives born and raised in the border state of Chihuahua who support his candidacy but not his tough stance on immigration.
“Soy Mitt Romney,” says the sponsor at the end of the new Spanish-language TV ad touting un “pais de immigrates.” A nation of immigrants — like narrator Craig Romney’s grandfather, Mexico-born. The Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee has been advised...
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Ann Romney nimbly avoids her horse Rafalca during a photo op at the National Grand Prix Dressage Championship at the United States Equestrian Federation Festival of Champions.
There are TV ads, and there are videos. The TV ads are broadcast, or relayed by cable networks, to millions of Americans in battleground states, all aimed at influencing public opinion about the presidential election contest. The videos are rolled...
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A member of the Secret Service next to President Barack Obama's limousine as he attends a private fundraiser in San Antonio, Texas, on July 17, 2012.
The ex-Dell exec’s penthouse in Texas has a view of Lady Bird Lake. The president’s fundraising dinner at the Austin downtown Four Seasons residence of former Dell Inc. finance chief Tom Meredith capped a $4-million fundraising day in Austin and...
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Protests outside a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on July 16, 2012 in Baton Rouge, La.
Payback is priceless. Texas Governor Rick Perry, who challenged Republican Mitt Romney for the party’s presidential nomination — and criticized Romney’s private-equity business as “vulture capitalism” – has joined a bipartisan chorus ranging from the Obama campaign to a former...
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Harris Stanley, the most youthful manger in major league baseball, with President Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Grace Coolidge just before the start of the opening game in Washington between the Senators and the Athletics.Photograph by AP
The Bush library is out with its first book. That’s the George W. Bush Presidential Center, its establishment with a library and think tank at the alma mater of former first lady Laura Bush generating no small controversy on the...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Washington.
A runoff election for a House seat today between two North Carolina Republicans is unusual for the intervention of party leaders and outside groups. Richard Hudson, a former chief of staff to three House members, is the preferred candidate of...
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