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President Barack Obama gets out of an electric Chevy Volt in Holland, Michigan.
President Barack Obama wants you to know he supports “insourcing” and Republican challenger Mitt Romney supports “outsourcing.” That’s the contrast on jobs that the president’s re-election campaign is trying to make in a new television ad airing in swing-states critical to...
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Robert E. Diamond Jr., of Barclays PLC.
Updated at 10:30 am EDT Robert Diamond, who today stepped down as chief executive of Barclays Plc, will no longer co-host a London campaign fundraiser this month for presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul confirmed....
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Mitt and Ann Romney on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., on July 2, 2012, where they have a vacation home.
Now come snapshots from Mitt Romney’s summer vacation. And the buttoned-down, perfectly coiffed candidate for president has let his hair down. There’s Romney, in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, ordering an ice cream cone. There’s Romney surrounded by some of the kids...
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Steam and smoke from a coal-fired power plant.
A nonprofit organization that supports free markets and curbing regulation is airing television ads in Ohio attacking Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown on energy policy. American Commitment, which formed in April, is spending about $1.2 million on two ads that began...
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell at the 39th Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Washington.
The Republican Party’s primaries are starting to pay off for social conservatives: The protracted contest in which the party spent months searching for an alternative to its now-presumed nominee, Mitt Romney, with social conservatives rallying around former Senator Rick Santorum...
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Health-care demonstrators outside the Supreme Court.
Know what the Supreme Court did on health care? Almost one in three American adults don’t, a respectable poll reports today. The initial public opinion polling on the Supreme Court upholding President Barack Obama’s health-care law was evenly split, in...
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Mitt Romney addresses the American Israel Policy Affairs Committee's annual policy conference in Washington.
Updated at 5:30 pm EDT Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, plans to visit Israel in the coming weeks and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a campaign official not authorized to discuss the trip said. It will be...
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Swimmers try and keep cool in near 100 degree temperatures at Red Oaks Waterpark in Madison Heights, Michigan.
The Federal Reserve isn’t always easy to read, especially the chairman. And then there are those much delayed minutes of meetings. Yet even Representative Ron Paul might be hard-pressed to quibble with this bit of advice from the Seventh Federal...
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Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp.
In the realm of 140-character sentiments, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch appeared to be having some indigestion over the Republican Party’s presumed presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. “Romney has plenty of brains, but want to see heart and stomach,” the Murdoch...
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President Barack Obama departing the White House.
President Barack Obama embarks on the first bus tour of his re-election campaign later this week politically strengthened, thanks to a conservative chief justice and European government leaders. The Obama administration won two Supreme Court victories last week, one backing...
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