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Rubio shrugs off veep talk but just wait till 2016
By News on Apr 19, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wherever Sen. Marco Rubio goes, talk of vice president follows - whether he's inadvertently referring to himself as the second in command or insisting to questioners that he'd rather stay in the Senate....
Ousted Secret Service supervisor joked about Palin
By News on Apr 19, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Secret Service supervisors ousted in the agency's ongoing prostitution scandal joked on Facebook that he was checking out former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as he protected her during the 2008 campaign....GOP pushes business tax cut through divided House
By News on Apr 19, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans rammed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most of America's employers through the House on Thursday, ignoring a White House veto threat in a debate both parties used to show voters how they would bolster the economy....White House defends Secret Service chief anew
By News on Apr 19, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House expressed renewed confidence Thursday in the director of the Secret Service in the midst of a sordid prostitution scandal that has threatened to become a serious political distraction in an election year. A key lawmaker who oversees the Secret Service predicted more firings there soon....Trouble in threes: Scandals hamper Obama's message
By News on Apr 19, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- It isn't Mitt Romney who's giving Barack Obama fits as the president pivots to re-election mode. It's those federal bureaucrats carousing in Las Vegas, the Secret Service consorting with Columbian prostitutes and U.S. soldiers posing with bloody enemy corpses....