Dated: May 18th 2012 By Tammy Webber
CHICAGO (AP) - Thousands of nurses and other protesters began gathering at a downtown Chicago plaza Friday to demand a "Robin Hood" tax on banks' financial transactions, the largest protest yet ahead of a two-day NATO summit that is expected to draw even larger demonstrations. National Nurses United officials expect about 2,000 nurses to attend [...]
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Dated: May 18th 2012 By Steve Peoples
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mitt Romney and his Republican Party raised $40 million in April, an unexpectedly strong haul in the first month of the general campaign that illustrates enthusiasm within the GOP and threatens President Barack Obama's overwhelming cash advantage. Since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Romney has devoted most of his time to [...]
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Dated: May 17th 2012 By Beth Fouhy
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -Â The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic. An aide to Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, said the proposal to draw the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the [...]
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Dated: May 17th 2012 By Hope Yen
WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. New 2011 census estimates highlight sweeping changes in the nation's racial makeup and the prolonged impact of a weak economy, which is now [...]
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Dated: May 17th 2012 By Christopher S, Rugaber
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits was unchanged last week, suggesting modest but steady gains in the job market. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly unemployment aid applications stayed at a seasonally adjusted 370,000, the same level as the previous week. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell [...]
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Dated: May 17th 2012 By Dorie Turner
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A new national report says up to 7.5 million students miss nearly a month of school each year, making them much more likely to drop out before they graduate. What's more startling is that only six states track chronic absenteeism. That's according to a study by Johns Hopkins University researchers released Thursday [...]
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Dated: May 17th 2012 By GOPUSA Staff
HOUSTON (AP) - A jury's acquittal Wednesday of a former Houston police officer in the alleged beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect during a videotaped arrest upset black community leaders who criticized the verdict as unjust and racist. Andrew Blomberg, 29, was the first of four fired police officers to stand trial for their roles [...]
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Dated: May 17th 2012 By Wilson Ring
STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) - The winds blowing through Canada's broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont's hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country's laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity. Some residents of the Quebec town of Stanstead are upset about plans in Vermont to erect just south of [...]
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Dated: May 16th 2012 By AP Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) - A private organization established to run a third-party candidate in this year's presidential elections has thrown in the towel, saying no one mustered sufficient support for such an effort. Kahlil Byrd, chief executive officer of Americans Elect, said in a statement that under the rules his group approved for an online primary, [...]
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Dated: May 16th 2012 By AP Staff
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, a Republican often mentioned as a potential vice presidential candidate but who repeatedly has denied interest, has criticized fellow Republican Mitt Romney's stance on immigration. Martinez questioned the likely GOP presidential nominee's "self-deportation" strategy during an interview with Newsweek. The magazine quotes the governor as [...]
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