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POLITICS
Neb. GOP nominates Fischer to face ex-Sen. Kerrey
Nebraska state Sen. Deb Fischer has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, setting the stage for a high-stakes November election against former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey.
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POLITICS
Romney keeps media at bay as he sticks to script
Mitt Romney is trying harder than ever these days to stay on script - and keep his traveling national press corps at arm's length.
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POLITICS
House OKs GOP's anti-violence against women bill
House Republicans set up a showdown Wednesday with the Senate and President Barack Obama over legislation to protect women from domestic violence, a fight that's become as much about female voters this election year as cracking down on abuse.
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POLITICS
House passes GOP-sponsored domestic violence bill despite Obama veto threat
Unfazed by a White House veto threat, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved anti-domestic violence legislation that opponents charge doesn't sufficiently protect gay, lesbian, transgender people, Native Americans and immigrants.
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House passes Violence Against Women Act renewal that critics say doesn’t protect gays, Native Americans, immigrants
Unfazed by a White House veto threat, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved anti-domestic violence legislation that opponents charge doesn’t sufficiently protect gay, lesbian, transgender people, Native Americans and immigrants.
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POLITICS
World leaders set for busy US weekend of summitry
More than two dozen world leaders will join President Barack Obama in an extraordinary weekend of back-to-back summits to tackle Europe's mounting economic woes and solidify plans for winding down the decade-long war in Afghanistan.
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POLITICS
Former FBI agent drops out of House race in CT
A former FBI agent who helped send elected officials to jail, including a governor, is dropping out of the Republican race in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District.
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POLITICS
End urged to terror suspects' indefinite detention
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is challenging a new law that allows the indefinite detention without trial of suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the United States.
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POLITICS
After teen's fatal fall from airliner, Congress questions airport security
The case of a Charlotte, N.C., teenager who died after stowing away in the wheel well of a jet was part of a federal hearing Wednesday on airport security problems.
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POLITICS
No sure thing for GOP: a tight battle for Senate
Divisive Republican primaries, an out-of-nowhere GOP retirement in Maine and an unexpectedly competitive race in North Dakota add up to an unpredictable battle for control of the Senate this fall, confounding early forecasts that an era of Democratic rule was inevitably coming to an end.






