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Inside Politics: NAACP launches voter-registration push

ATLANTA — Saying it won't let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout, the NAACP on Wednesday launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters...

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Milwaukee mayor faces Walker again

MADISON, Wis. — The Democrats' hope for ousting Scott Walker is a low-key, well-liked Milwaukee mayor whose last brush with fame came when he interceded in a fight outside the Wisconsin State Fair and...

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Prosecution rests after detailing money to Edwards' mistress

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Prosecutors rested their campaign fraud case against John Edwards on Thursday after 14 days of dramatic and often unflattering testimony that focused on the once-promising...

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Judge dismisses DWI charges against ex-FAA chief

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A judge on Thursday tossed out drunken driving charges against the former head of the Federal Aviation Administration after seeing video of the traffic stop and ruling that the...

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Obama campaigns for cash at George Clooney's house

Fresh from announcing his support of same-sex marriage, President Obama headed Thursday night for a Hollywood campaign fundraiser that was projected to bring his re-election campaign nearly $15 million...

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U.S. talking to Taliban on freeing serviceman

The Pentagon's two top leaders said Thursday the Obama administration is working to secure the freedom of a U.S. soldier taken prisoner three years ago in Afghanistan, despite an impasse in talks to...

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Documents withheld in GSA scandal

The watchdog agency for the General Services Administration is declining to release hundreds of thousands of documents about travel fraud investigations, saying the disclosure could interfere with...

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Judge throws out drunken-driving charge against former FAA chief

A Fairfax County judge on Thursday tossed out drunken driving charges against the former head of the Federal Aviation Administration after seeing video of the traffic stop and ruling that the police...

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House shifts pending budget cuts from defense to entitlements

Six months after the congressional supercommittee failed to come to a long-term deal on federal spending, House Republicans reignited the debate Thursday by passing legislation that would stop looming...

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Romney's team starts to look like Bush's

Ed Gillespie served as President George W. Bush's right-hand man and now is a top political adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. R. Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw led Mr....

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Inside the Beltway: Romney's graduates

Forget shabby politics, an evolving White House and the "Celebrity-in-Chief" for a moment: It's God, country and education at Liberty University on Saturday morning, when 14,012 students receive...

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Republican infighting stalls remapping in Kansas

It has a Republican-led Legislature, a GOP governor, almost perfectly straight-line borders and only four U.S. House districts, but Kansas somehow is the only state that hasn't completed its new...

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House bill reins in Census Bureau, Justice

House Republicans voted this week to kill a major part of the census and to rein in the Obama administration's lawsuits against states over immigration laws, voter-identification laws and gay-marriage...

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Inside Politics: Bachmann cancels Swiss-citizen status

MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Michele Bachmann ended her Swiss citizenship less than diplomatically Thursday, saying she was giving it up to prove she is a "proud American citizen." The Minnesota Republican said...

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Judge refuses to dismiss John Edwards charges

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge refused to throw out campaign corruption charges against John Edwards on Friday, meaning the former presidential hopeful will have to present his case to a jury. Lawyers...

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Biden proves catalyst for Obama on gay marriage

WASHINGTON — Sorry, Mr. President. After nearly single-handedly pushing gay marriage to the forefront of the presidential campaign and inadvertently pressuring President Barack Obama to declare his...

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Obama heads to struggling Nev. after fundraising

LOS ANGELES — President Barack Obama is turning his attention back to the economy after a day spent raising millions of dollars for his campaign and riding a media wave on his newly declared support...

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Video: Wis. Gov. Walker explains divide, conquer strategy

MADISON, Wis. — Newly-released documentary film footage from January 2011 shows Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker describing a "divide and conquer" strategy for going after the state's public employee unions...

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Obama website adds 'clean coal' after GOP complaints

The Obama campaign changed its website Thursday night to include a reference to "clean coal" in the president's "all-of-the-above" energy plan after Republicans lawmakers criticized the omission. Under...

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2 new charges for alleged White House shooter

WASHINGTON — A man accused of shooting an assault rifle at the White House and charged with the attempted assassination of President Barack Obama faces two additional counts. An indictment adds...

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