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Romney shakes up the strategy, tones down rhetoric
By News on Apr 28, 2012
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney's Etch A Sketch moment is at hand....Blind lawyer's escape to overshadow US-China talks
By News on Apr 28, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Less than a week before annual U.S.-Chinese diplomatic and economic talks, relations between the powers risked sharply deteriorating Saturday with an escaped Chinese activist reportedly under American protection and a U.S. fighter jet sale to Taiwan now being considered....
High court's stance could spur immigration laws
By News on Apr 28, 2012
Emboldened by signals that the U.S. Supreme Court may uphold parts of Arizona's immigration law, legislators and activists across the country say they are gearing up to push for similar get-tough measures in their states....
Syria accuses UN chief of encouraging 'terrorists'
By News on Apr 28, 2012
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BEIRUT (AP) -- A Syrian state-run newspaper accused U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday of encouraging "terrorist" rebel attacks by focusing his criticism on the government, while other government media reported that the navy foiled an infiltration attempt by gunmen who tried to land on the Syrian coast in rubber boats....Chaperones among new Secret Service conduct rules
By News on Apr 28, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated....