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President Obama and Mitt Romney have found some new common ground -surprisingly – on an issue of gay rights. Obama today joined Romney in publicly disagreeing with a controversial ban on gay members of the Boy Scouts of America, one of the nation’s largest and…

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Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has filed a defamation lawsuit in New York against the National Jewish Democratic Council and top officials, saying they made libelous statements regarding his political contributions.

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The state of Texas has executed a convicted killer whose lawyers say shouldn’t have been eligible for the death penalty because of his low IQ.

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DES MOINES—Former President Bill Clinton is pushing back against Mitt Romney’s claim that President Barack Obama is trying to reverse bipartisan welfare reforms he signed into law in 1996. In a television ad released Tuesday and later at an event outside Chicago, Romney criticized a recent Department of Human Services directive that relaxed federal work […]

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The Internal Revenue Service may have delivered more than $5 billion in refund checks to identity thieves who filed fraudulent tax returns for 2011, Treasury Department investigators said Thursday.

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After lampooning Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer last week for getting his facts wrong on the controversy surrounding the Winston Churchill bust at the White House, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer has apologized. On Friday, Pfeiffer slammed Krauthammer for repeating “this ridiculous claim” that…

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DENVER – Some of the victims fighting for their lives after being wounded in the movie-theatre shooting rampage may face another challenge when they get out of the hospital: enormous medical bills without the benefit of health insurance.

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Four Democrats have come forward in the wake of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo. to voice support for new legislation aimed to combat gun violence. Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez joined Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey Tuesday to voice support for Lautenberg’s bill outlawing […]

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We are days away from the Olympics, and we’ll be seeing a lot of at least one presidential candidate’s face while we watch the pole vault. The other is getting in his time with the public before the opening ceremony. 

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Navy investigators have determined that a civilian laborer set a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early.

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