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(AP) Martina Love had two words to describe the job fair hosted Tuesday by Scott Lee Cohen, the independent candidate for Illinois governor: false advertisement.Out of work for a year, the 23-year-old said she's looking for a "real job" at a factory or somewhere else, not selling jewelry or enlisting in ...
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(AP) Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett took a page out of Republican Scott Walker's play book in his most recent television ad, claiming to be "one of the cheapest guys on the planet."Walker has based his entire campaign on his personal frugality, calling it a "brown bag movement" because he claims ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama is greeting foreign diplomats at a White House reception, hailing a "new era of engagement in the world."Said the president: "We're doing together what none of us can achieve by ourselves."Scores of ambassadors and other foreign officials were invited to the East Room on Tuesday for cocktails ...
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(AP) U.S. and NATO forces have killed more than 100 fighters from a Pakistan-based faction of the Taliban during two weeks of stepped-up military operations along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Pentagon said Tuesday.The intensified border operations have contributed to tension between the United States and Pakistan that reached a critical point ...
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(AP) A former Marine has pleaded guilty to accepting a $25,000 bribe in exchange for awarding numerous contracts to a Lebanese-based company at Camp Falluja in Iraq.Mariam Mendoza Steinbuch, who was a staff sergeant deployed as a contracting specialist in 2006, was arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Washington.Court documents say ...
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(AP) The Pentagon says U.S. and NATO forces have killed more than 100 fighters from a Pakistan-based faction of the Taliban over the past two weeks.Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell (moh-REHL') says the killings targeted the Haqqani (ha-KAH-knee) network in eastern Afghanistan. The Islamist group is a Pakistan-based offshoot of the ...
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(AP) A daylong, nationwide effort to get people to turn in old or unwanted prescription drugs has collected more than 121 tons of unused medicine.DEA officials said Tuesday that 242,000 pounds of pills have been collected at more than 4,000 prescription drug "take-back" sites across the country.The DEA held the national ...
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(AP) Sailors suffering from injuries incurred 10 years ago in the USS Cole attack are suing Sudan for damages.The suit was filed in Washington on Monday on behalf of eight sailors aboard the destroyer and two of their spouses. They say they have suffered from surgeries for bodily injuries as well ...
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(AP) Fresh television advertising in the Kentucky Senate race began airing Tuesday as national Democrats swooped in to aid Jack Conway while Republican Rand Paul's latest commercial uses the voice of a Barack Obama impersonator.The ad by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee depicts Paul as an outsider who doesn't understand Kentucky ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama will headline a rally in Philadelphia this weekend that's open to the public as he tries to invigorate Democratic voters ahead of two crucial statewide races.Obama will be joined Sunday by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak and gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato. The rally is at a park ...
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(AP) WASHINGTON _ The Sacramento splittail fish does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday.The decision puts the Obama administration on the same side as a former Bush administration official who was accused of improper political interference in dozens of endangered species ...
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(AP) The Army has updated its 17-year-old rule book on espionage to specifically require that troops alert authorities if they suspect classified leaks to the media.The revision comes on the heels of the service's WikiLeaks debacle. Earlier this year, an Army intelligence analyst was charged with providing a classified video to ...
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(AP) After weeks without campaign ads, Democratic Rep. Brad Ellsworth returned to the airwaves with a commercial Tuesday as a new poll showed him far behind Republican Dan Coats in the race for Indiana's open U.S. Senate seat.Ellsworth's ad targets the former senator's lobbying background, saying he made millions as a ...
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(AP) An advocacy group led by former New York Gov. George Pataki has begun running television ads in New Hampshire and New York attacking Democratic supporters of the new health care reform law.Pataki, a Republican who left office in 2006, said last month that Revere America would target about a dozen ...
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(AP) Democratic state General Treasurer Frank Caprio has $1 million going into the final stretch of the race for governor, far more than his leading rival, independent Lincoln Chafee.Reports filed with the state Board of Elections on Tuesday show Chafee, a former Republican U.S. senator who left the party in 2007, ...
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(AP) A deep-pocketed alliance with ties to top Republicans Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie is pumping more than $4 million into key Senate races in a single week of advertising, a crucial infusion to counter a surge in Democratic Party spending as Election Day draws near.The new wave of ads by ...
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(AP) The United States and China are slowly repairing ruptured military ties but a formal invitation for U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to visit China is not likely this year.Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell says the two nations are looking for a mutually convenient time for the long-delayed visit _ probably ...
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(AP) U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene wants South Carolina's Democratic Party chairwoman to step down because she won't support his long-shot bid.Greene adviser Jonathan Farley said Tuesday that Chairwoman Carol Fowler has broken party rules by criticizing the Democratic nominee to the benefit of the Republican incumbent, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint.Democratic ...
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(AP) Trying to shed criticism that he was sitting on a lead and a pile of campaign cash, Democrat Andrew Cuomo emerged this week with daily public events as a new poll shows he may be reclaiming momentum in the race for New York governor.Meanwhile, tea party Republican Carl Paladino is ...
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(AP) The government's giant bank bailout may well have averted a second Great Depression, economists say, but a lot of voters aren't buying it. Support for the program is turning into a kiss of death for many in Congress.Longtime Republican lawmakers _ tarred by their votes for the emergency aid to ...
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(AP) President Barack Obama's national security adviser said Tuesday that nations need to work together better to combat money laundering and other crimes that send arms, drugs and other deadly weapons across international borders.James Jones told a security conference in the southern Russian resort of Sochi that such cross-border crimes are ...
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(AP) Candidates for high political office usually grovel for newspaper endorsements. Not Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Breaking from a decades-old tradition, the governor isn't even bothering to meet with editorial writers, much less ask for their blessing.The way Perry sees it, newspapers are old news and have lost much of their ...
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(AP) A Conservative Party candidate has dropped out of a U.S. House race in northern New York, telling his backers they should vote for the Republican who defeated him in last month's primary.Doug Hoffman says he didn't intend to split the Republican vote when he decided to continue his run on ...
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(AP) The NFL is asking Sen. Russ Feingold's campaign to remove an unauthorized clip from his latest ad that shows Randy Moss pretending to moon the Green Bay crowd.NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday the league has not licensed the footage to the Democratic senator's campaign.The ad shows a number of ...
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(AP) A campaign adviser for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says President Barack Obama is planning to visit the state as Patrick faces a tough re-election campaign.The adviser told The Associated Press on Tuesday the visit is planned for Oct. 16 but the details are still being worked out. The adviser spoke ...
