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In comments that could worsen tensions between the Romney campaign and the GOP's conservative base, a campaign adviser said party activists would have "very little" influence in a Romney White House.Avik Roy, an outside adviser to the Romney campaign on health care issues, made the comments Sunday on Up w/ Chris Hayes during a discussion about the significance of the GOP's extreme party platform, which has been the subject of extensive news coverage this week.
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An Oslo court on Friday delivered the most severe sentence allowed under Norwegian law to Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted killing 77 people in his country’s worst peacetime atrocity. The sentence was the most severe permitted under Norwegian law, but it can be extended at a later date if he is still deemed to be a danger to society.
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It's a sell out for The Donald. The Sarasota GOP said today it has sold more than 950 tickets for Sunday's "2012 Statesman Dinner" honoring Donald Trump. “This is the largest crowd we have ever had attend a ticketed function," party chairman Joe Gruters said. "There has never been anything like it, the press coverage, the excitement and the overwhelming number of people wanting to witness Mr. Trump receive the honor of Statesman of the Year has been bigger than anything we have ever dealt with before."
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Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines is offering a new drinks package on a test-run basis.
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Mitt Romney couldn't have chosen a better example of the fakery at the heart of today's GOP... Paul Ryan was born into a well-to-do Janesville, Wisc. family, part of the so-called “Irish mafia” that’s run the city’s construction industry since the 19th century. When his lawyer father died young, sadly, the high-school aged Ryan received Social Security survivor benefits. But they didn’t go directly to supporting his family; by his own account, he banked them for college. He went to Miami University of Ohio, paying twice as much tuition as an Ohio resident would have; the in-state University of Wisconsin system (which I attended) apparently wasn’t good enough for Ryan. After his government-subsidized out-of-state education, the pride of Janesville left college and went to work for government, where he’s spent his entire career, first serving Republican legislators and then in his own Congressional seat, with occasional stints at his family-owned construction business when he needed a job (reportedly he also drove an Oscar Mayer Wiener Mobile for a while).
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Gymnast Danell Leyva arrived Wednesday night at Miami International Airport to a throng of enthusiastic fans and family members.
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If you've been wondering why Doctor Who failed to make more of an impact in the London Games (beyond Matt Smith carrying the torch as part of the relay...
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Pizza chain Papa John's told shareholders that President Obama's health care law will cost consumers more on their pizza.
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When the dust clears, it's likely that white males will constitute a minority of House Democrats for the first time—a trend with big implications... As these numbers make clear, the parties are separating by race and gender. And because women and minorities view government differently, and want different things from it, than white men do, this change both tracks and exacerbates the partisan polarization that is consuming Washington.
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"Take your pro-Hamas butt and get the hell out of my country!" and more greatest hits.
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The U.S. tax code may be difficult to grasp, but understanding the presidential candidates' plans for it doesn't have to be.
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Orlando Sentinel (blog)Florida State starts practice with Penn State transfer, seeking replacements ...Washington PostTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State started preseason practice Monday with one big addition and an electrifying loss.
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Lance Armstrong said he would not fight the charges brought by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which means he will lose his seven Tour de France titles and all awards and money he won since August 1998. Armstrong, who won the Tour de France an unprecedented seven straight times, said that he would not continue to contest the charges levied against him by the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which claimed that he doped and was one of the ringleaders of systematic doping on his Tour-winning teams.
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Somewhere in the north-eastern Spanish city of Borja, an elderly woman is probably praying that the road to hell is not really paved with good intentions. There can be little doubt that the woman, identified only as an octogenarian local, was just trying to help when she noticed that the face of the scourged Christ on the wall of a small church in the city was looking a bit faded, and decided to freshen it up a bit. Sadly for her – and Elías García Martínez, the 19th-century artist who painted the mural – her brush skills were not quite up to the job.
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"Americans, real people, have bought this line that we are on two teams in this country. There is a red team, and there is a blue team." "We vote for people who are going in there to fight red or blue instead of put that stuff down at the end of the election cycle and work on real problems that need to be solved."
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A newspaper by Steve Beste - updated daily with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos.
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JANESVILLE, Wis. -- Dark-haired and athletic, Irish Catholic and connected. Youthful, successful, sophisticated and large.
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Based on experts’ analysis of data on ultrarich taxpayers, Mitt Romney has almost certainly been paying income taxes, but perhaps at a very low rate. It so happens that this summer the Internal Revenue Service released data from the 400 individual income tax returns reporting the highest adjusted gross income. This elite ultrarich group earned on average $202 million in 2009, the latest year available. And buried in the data is the startling disclosure that six of the 400 paid no federal income tax.
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After a woman in Hialeah was found carrying dozens of absentee ballots, an additional 164 are believed to have been mailed at a post office.
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After Nasa successfully landed its Curiosity probe on Monday, Britain's Astronomer Royal said he believed it was only a matter of time before an astronaut walked on Mars. Lord Rees of Ludlow said the US space agency's mission to determine whether the Red Planet could have supported life was the first step in accessing Earth's nearest neighbour. He said the exploration project could mark the start of the "post-human era" despite the risks associated with travelling into the solar system. "It is foolish to claim, as some do, that mass emigration into space offers escape from Earth’s problems," he said, writing in the Times.
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That headline is true. Mitt Romney told the story Tuesday about his father, George Romney, who received carte blanche at McDonald's until his death in 1995.
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With 52-percent of Florida voters disapproving of the job Gov. Rick Scott has done, Florida Democrats are happy to hear that Scott has received a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention.
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The big tents of the political conventions can’t fit every clown.
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GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney still refuses to release any of his tax returns from before the year 2010. Romney says there's absolutely nothing worth seeing.
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