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Ron Paul’s long-shot presidential campaign started winding down — done in by the candidate’s lack of funds, senior aides admit. “It was a financial consideration definitely,” campaign spokesman Gary Howard said.
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France gets a new president as Francois Hollande is sworn in as the country's first Socialist leader in nearly two decades at a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in central Paris.
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Elections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia always carry special political resonance for GermanyElections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia always carry special political resonance for Germany as a whole – and even for Europe. That's partly because NRW is the most populated of...(more)
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California Gov. Jerry Brown is facing the music. Hit with a soaring state budget shortfall of $15.7 billion – up from $9.2 billion as recently as January – Governor Brown announced proposals Monday to make $8.3 billion in painful, cross-the-board cuts that quickly elicited outcries from...(more)
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VERACRUZ, Mexico (Reuters) - The main opposition political party is at the root of the violence engulfing Mexico, ruling party presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota said after one of the worst atrocities in the country's drug war.
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Angela Merkel's electoral defeats at home and increasing isolation in Europe may allow more room for compromise at first meeting with French presidentFresh from the Parisian pomp of a presidential inauguration, François Hollande speeds to Berlin on Tuesday for a baptism of fire in Europe's crisis....(more)
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Since his first House campaign a dozen years ago, would-be Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake has worked diligently to cast himself as a conservative gadfly, willing to buck GOP leaders and even a Republican president....
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Both President Obama's campaign and gay activists reject the idea that his endorsement of same-sex marriage was tied to fundraising. But there's no doubt that the community's influence has broadened.Washington Bureau
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As the accusations of bullying continued to follow Mitt Romney on the campaign trail, another former friend and classmate of the presumptive GOP nominee said it was a “shock” to hear the stories and it wasn’t the friend he knew,...
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Mitt Romney doubled down on his position against same sex marriage, telling graduates at Liberty University Saturday that marriage between "one man and one woman" is an "enduring institution" that should be defended. Coming just days after President Obama endorsed the right of gays and lesbians...(more)
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Leaders of three largest parties to meet with Karolos Papoulias on Sunday after each failed to form coalitionThe Greek president has called the country's leaders to a meeting on Sunday in a final attempt to forge a unity government and avoid another election.Karolos Papoulias, a ceremonial...(more)
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President Obama's statement on gay marriage could be decisive in bringing energy to his re-election campaignMatt Buchalter, a 34-year-old gay doctor who works in a Manhattan hospital, first heard the news when he got back to his office after seeing a patient. His computer was open...(more)
