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    President Barack Obama's campaign is ramping up criticism of Republican Mitt Romney's record in Massachusetts, while the Republican nominee is contrasting his record in the private sector with the Obama administration's support for green energy companies.
  • For Obama and Romney, Syria is no-win situation May 31, 2012
    Escalating violence in Syria has become the ultimate no-win political situation for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney: The deepening crisis is impossible for their campaigns to ignore but too complex for them to articulate an easy solution.
  • Anti-incumbent fever scarcely in evidence May 31, 2012
    Anti-incumbent fever is scarcely in evidence in the 2012 congressional primaries, despite costly efforts by conservatives to remake the Republican Party and this week's defeat of a Texas Democrat ousted after eight terms in office.
  • Fla. candidate legally changes name to web address May 30, 2012
    Florida is letting a congressional candidate put the name of his web address on the ballot.
  • Syria rebel chief urges Annan to declare peace plan over May 31, 2012
    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's main rebel commander urged Kofi Annan on Thursday to announce that his peace plan had failed to free insurgents from any commitment to a ceasefire deal, which the United States said may collapse and trigger a broader Middle East crisis. Colonel Riad al-Asaad, who is based in Turkey, contradicted a statement by the rebels insid […]
  • India announces austerity measures, cuts non-plan spend May 31, 2012
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India announced a series of austerity steps on Thursday, including a 10 percent cut in non-plan expenditure for 2012/13, in a bid to contain its ballooning fiscal deficit. India's non-plan expenditure for 2012/13 is estimated at 9.70 trillion rupees. However, the cut, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Finance, ex […]
  • Militants deny link to Pakistani doctor in bin Laden case May 31, 2012
    DERA ISMAIL KHAN/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Deepening the mystery in a case that is straining Islamabad's relations with Washington, a Pakistani militant group said on Thursday it never had ties to a doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden, even though he was jailed for aiding them. Last week, after Dr Shakil Afridi was convicted by a court i […]
  • US sales of bank-owned homes fell in 1st quarter May 31, 2012
    Bank-owned homes and those in some stage of the foreclosure process saw their share of overall U.S. home sales grow in the first quarter.
  • Gov't cracking down on unsafe bus companies May 31, 2012
    Twenty-six bus operations that transported more than 1,800 passengers a day along Interstate 95 between New York and Florida have been closed for safety violations in what federal officials say is the government's largest single safety crackdown of the motor coach industry in at least a decade.
  • Merkel: "No taboos" in euro crisis but change takes time May 31, 2012
    STRALSUND, Germany (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Europe should be ready to consider all options in its drive to stem its sovereign debt crisis but refrained from commenting on calls for a banking union in the euro zone. With the crisis now battering Spain, the European Commission said on Wednesday a vicious cycle of weak b […]

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