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HAMZA HENDAWI
01/23/12 2:12 AM
With Islamists comprising the overwhelming majority of its lawmakers, the parliament elected in Egypt's first legislative vote after Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly a year ago held its inaugural session on Monday.
The convening of the new parliament is a significant benchmark in the timetable provided by the generals who took over from Mubarak for the handover of power to a civilian administration.
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SHANNON McCAFFREY
01/21/12 1:16 AM
Newt Gingrich says his victory in South Carolina's GOP primary is a blow to elites.
Gingrich surged to victory in South Carolina, easily outpacing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, his closest rival, former Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Ron Paul.
A gracious Gingrich didn't attack any of his opponents, praising each of their life stories. He's focusing on President Barack Obama who he says doesn't understand the American people.
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JULIE PACE
01/19/12 12:04 AM
From the Magic Kingdom to the Apollo Theater, President Barack Obama on Thursday made the case for American tourism and his own re-election bid, mingling his political and economic agendas as he tried to stay ahead of the Republicans chasing after his job.
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CHARLES BABINGTON
01/14/12 2:21 AM
With a week left to halt Mitt Romney from sweeping to a third straight victory, his GOP rivals are struggling in South Carolina for a theme, momentum and most crucially, one strong challenger to consolidate conservatives' misgivings about the front-runner.
The dynamics that lifted Romney to wins in Iowa and New Hampshire seem to be working for him here, even though South Carolina is often described as too evangelical and culturally southern for his background.
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DAVID ESPO
01/03/12 10:15 PM
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Mitt Romney eked out a minuscule 8-vote victory over Rick Santorum in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses, the state party chairman said early Wednesday, bringing down the curtain on an improbable first act in the campaign to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama in the fall.
Appearing hours after the caucuses had ended, Matt Strawn said Romney had 30,015 votes, to 30,007 for Santorum, whose late surge carried him to a near win.
Even before his victory was
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DAVID ESPO
01/03/12 12:56 AM
Vote by precious vote, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney battled improbably to a virtual draw in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses early Wednesday, the opening round in the race to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama in the fall.
"Game on," declared Santorum, jaw set, after easily outdistancing several other contenders to emerge as Romney's unvarnished conservative rival for the primaries yet ahead.
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By:
THOMAS BEAUMONT
12/31/11 2:24 AM
Mitt Romney is the clear Republican front-runner in Iowa in the final days before the first voting in the 2012 presidential election. But that's where the glimmer of clarity ends in this unpredictable nomination race.
Five others are fighting, as they have all year, to emerge as the alternative to the former Massachusetts governor.
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KASIE HUNT
12/23/11 4:34 AM
In a likely preview of the general-election argument to come, Vice President Joe Biden and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney traded barbs Friday over whose economic policies are best for the country. Biden said Romney's would leave most people behind while the Republican said Biden and President Barack Obama live in "fantasyland" for thinking their policies are helping.
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By:
KASIE HUNT
12/20/11 3:02 AM
Mitt Romney refused to be pinned down Wednesday on how Congress should break an impasse that threatens to raise taxes for 160 million workers — the latest pressing policy debate the Republican presidential hopeful has sidestepped. Rival Newt Gingrich, in contrast, castigated Congress for "an absurd dereliction of duty."
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By:
KAREL JANICEK
12/18/11 4:26 AM
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died. He was 75.
Havel died Sunday morning at his weekend house in the northern Czech Republic, his assistant Sabina Tancecova said.
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