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Romney says Chinese activist should be protected
By News on Apr 29, 2012
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the U.S. should do everything it can to protect a Chinese activist who escaped house arrest and was reported to be hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing....China activists lifted by blind lawyer's escape
By News on Apr 29, 2012
BEIJING (AP) -- The surprising escape of a blind legal activist from house arrest to the presumed custody of U.S. diplomats is buoying China's embattled dissident community even as the government lashes out, detaining those who helped him and squelching mention of his name on the Internet....
Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for US raid
By News on Apr 29, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil....
Analysis: Student loan agreement? Not so fast.
By News on Apr 29, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the political campaigns still taking shape, President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and lawmakers of both parties say they want to protect college students from a sharp increase in interest rates on federally subsidized loans....
Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all
By News on Apr 29, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's celebrity studded White House Correspondents Dinner....
