CNN.com - Politics
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5/19/2012
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World leaders huddling at the Group of Eight meeting on Saturday committed to taking "all necessary steps" to bolster the global economy and geared up to deal with possible oil supply disruptions ahead of tough sanctions on Iran.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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The NAACP???s board of directors voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage rights ??? adding the influential voice of the country???s leading black civil rights organization to a debate that has divided the African-American community.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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Or maybe they just never gave up on it.
Arizona ??? where a top election official has said President Obama might not make the ballot because of questions about his birth certificate ??? is one place where it is enjoying a resurgence.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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CAMP DAVID, Md. ??? President Obama on Saturday declared Iran???s nuclear weapons ambitions a ???grave concern??? for world leaders, as the United States and its allies signaled they were prepared to follow through with tough new economic sanctions next month.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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Big issues are on the table as President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney begin the general election campaign: jobs and the economy, the future of health care, taxes, spending, the size and scope of government. What is missing is any serious discussion of the one question that overrides all others: Can Washington govern?
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is looking like a very unlikely vice-presidential pick for Mitt Romney.
Martinez, who has already said she wouldn???t leave the state because of a developmentally disabled sister, has now also come out against Romney???s illegal immigration policy, saying: ???Self-deportation? What the heck does that mean????
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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Who needs Camp David?
First lady Michelle Obama hosted the significant others of foreign leaders who are visiting the United States for the Group of Eight summit for a tour and lunch Saturday at the White House while the leaders of the world???s biggest economies talked business elsewhere.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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CHICAGO ??? With world leaders set to arrive in Chicago this weekend for a long-planned summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reinvigorated Occupy protesters plan to take to the streets in large numbers, hoping to disrupt tight security with marches and impromptu street theater in neighborhoods throughout the city.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn???s Barack Obama?
The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president.
???They???re both African-American, they???re both strikingly handsome, and they???re both highly intelligent,??? said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Jeffries supporter. ???Both of them have wonderful smiles.???
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2012
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Guests on the Sunday political talk shows include Rep. Paul Ryan to discuss the budget debate on Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will face off on ABC???s This Week. Other topics across the shows include the NATO Summit in Chicago and the G-8 Summit at Camp David.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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President Obama and other world leaders are set to address a host of pressing economic and military security issues this weekend as the U.S. hosts a high stakes Group of Eight summit outside Washington and a NATO summit in Chicago.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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Large-scale mining operations in Alaska???s Bristol Bay will harm habitat for wild salmon, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a draft assessment Friday, but agency officials said they had not decided whether they would move to block a proposal for a major gold and copper mine there.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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Four high-ranking federal lab workers found a way to turn ???per diem??? funds for a temporary assignment into a steady flow of extra income ??? at taxpayers??? expense. The overpayments, discovered in an inspector general???s audit, boosted the annual pay of some of the employees by as much as $64,000.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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President Obama???s reelection campaign launched a national drive Friday to counter new restrictive voter-access laws, which advisers said threaten his electoral chances in November.
Organizers will fan out in key swing states this weekend to teach volunteers and voters how to navigate a series of laws passed by Republican-controlled state legislatures imposing stricter identification requirements, limiting early voting and making it harder to organize voter-registration drives.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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Conservative interest groups have dumped well over $20??million into congressional races so far this year, outspending their liberal opponents 4 to 1 and setting off a growing panic among Democrats struggling to regain the House and hold on to their slim majority in the Senate.
More from PostPolitics:
- Joe Ricketts, a wealthy donor, getting attention in presidential contest
- Opinion: Want to end partisan politics? Here???s how
- Track spending on TV ads
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a nearly $643 billion military spending bill -- a measure at odds with prior defense spending agreements and President Barack Obama's Pentagon plans.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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China is using its growing economic strength to extend its military???s influence by taking on new missions and investing in more advanced weaponry, the Pentagon said Friday.
But the main focus of China???s military buildup continues to be directed toward weapons that would be used in a conflict over Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers part of its territory.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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The jury will begin deciding the fate of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards Friday, a day after closing arguments concluded in the corruption trial.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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Congressional Republicans are threatening another game of chicken with the debt ceiling. This will get America nowhere, says John Avlon.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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Top House Republicans attempted to ramp up pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday with a joint letter demanding the Department of Justice comply with a congressional subpoena for materials on the "Operation Fast and Furious" program.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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As the defense spending bill faces an uncertain future in the Democratic-led Senate, CNN looks at defense spending, by the numbers.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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James Lipton of "Inside the Actor's Studio" gives Mitt Romney some constructive criticism and advises him to relax.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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Why did four-in-ten Democratic primary voters in West Virginia earlier this month cast their ballots for felon Keith Judd over President Obama?
To hear Vice President Biden tell it, it???s because those voters are taking out their frustration and anger about the economy on Obama.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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Scott Brown raising money off Elizabeth Warren flap, Al Gore is dating, and George W. Bush is returning to the White House (for a portrait).
Make sure to sign up to get ???Afternoon Fix ??? in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 (ish) p.m!
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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Discussion of President Obama???s place of birth died down significantly when he released his long-form birth certicate. But birtherism still lives, even if it no longer gets as much attention.
Nationally, conservative bloggers have seized an opportunity to raise the issue. In some places disbelief in Obama???s America origins is still strong, and politicians are pandering to that sentiment.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a nearly $643 billion military spending bill -- a measure at odds with prior defense spending agreements and President Barack Obama's Pentagon plans.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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Just two and a half weeks remain in the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), and momentum seems to be firmly on the GOP???s side.
All three polls out this week show Walker leading Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) by between 5 percent and 9 percent. Perhaps more illustrative, though, are the candidate???s personal favorability and approval numbers.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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The state Democratic Party here is consumed with an ongoing sex scandal. The embattled governor is so unpopular she decided not to run for a second term. And supporters of same-sex marriage were dealt a crushing defeat.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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The state Democratic Party here is consumed with an ongoing sex scandal. The embattled governor is so unpopular she decided not to run for a second term. And supporters of same-sex marriage were dealt a crushing defeat.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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After a high-profile political battle this week over legislation to help victims of domestic abuse, its fate appears to be in limbo. And this policy-dispute-turned-election-year-brawl seems to be far from over.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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After a high-profile political battle this week over legislation to help victims of domestic abuse, its fate appears to be in limbo. And this policy-dispute-turned-election-year-brawl seems to be far from over.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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The Loop has gotten lots of entries in our contest to pick the site to locate a missile-defense system on the East Coast. From the Jersey Shore (to protect that national treasure, Snooki) to a goof-prone town called Accident, Md., (what could possibly go wrong there?), you???ve got plenty of ideas for where the big guns should go.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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It is the Hope Diamond of liberal ideas: pure, breathtaking and highly impractical in the real world.
The proposal has been submitted for consideration in every Congress since 2001, and the idea behind it is that the federal government could stop wars, pacify street gangs and distill violence out of the American soul itself. All it would take was a new Cabinet-level department and $10 billion a year in taxpayer money.
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5/18/2012
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DALLAS ??? The question raised earlier this week about whether Sarah Palin is underestimated is more than a Washington parlor game.
The answer will be of great interest in Texas, where the former Alaska governor and Lone Star Gov. Rick Perry are backing different Republican Senate candidates in the state???s May 29 primary.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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Tommy Starling and Jeff Littlefield say they've slowly been changing minds of people in their community when it comes to what a family looks like.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/18/2012
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Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame-duck session after the November elections.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2012
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???We were able to help create over 100,000 jobs. On the president???s watch, about 100,000 jobs were lost in the auto industry and auto dealers and auto manufacturers, so he???s hardly one to point a finger.???
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2012
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Predictions of super PAC-fueled campaign ugliness seemed to come to reality on Thursday when reports broke of a potential conservative group's ad campaign aimed at tying President Barack Obama to a controversy put to rest nearly four years ago.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2012
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Despite the heated campaign, lackluster performance on the economy and negative feelings many conservatives have toward President Obama, many voters still like Obama as a person.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/16/2012
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William Bennett says Gov. Jerry Brown should look to Wisconsin as role model in solving the state's huge budget shortfalls
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/16/2012
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On a vote that fell largely along party lines, the House of Representatives has approved a GOP measure reauthorizing the expired Violence Against Women Act ??? the latest issue that was once the subject of broad bipartisan agreement in Washington to fall victim to election year politics.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/16/2012
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President Obama and Mitt Romney may have different political and economic views, but they are both propped up by highly affluent power brokers who are expecting big returns for the big checks they are writing.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/15/2012
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David Frum agrees with political observers that the GOP's extremism and obstructionism is at the core of today's dysfunctional government.
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