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FBI says agents at the home of Petraeus lover
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:57PM November 12, 2012 CommentCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — FBI agents on Monday night searched the North Carolina home of the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director.
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Satellite imagery shows NKorea missile activity
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:02PM November 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Satellite imagery indicates North Korea has been testing rocket engines, a sign it continues to develop its long-range ballistic missiles, a U.S. academic institute said Monday.
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Deficit talks will test the GOP focus on tax rates
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:40PM November 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders say the government can raise tax "revenues" without raising tax "rates." But they have yet to detail how they would pursue it.
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Timeline of events in Petraeus case
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:25PM November 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The extramarital affair that brought down David Petraeus' celebrated career last week raised many questions. Among them: when exactly the affair began, how the FBI stumbled upon the information and who was told about it. Here's a timeline of events, according to officials involved in the investigation:
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Big Business Quick to Support Obama Post-Election
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Tom Stemberg, founder of Staples office supply stores, addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Aug. 30, 2012.
Business leaders make it clear their priority is avoiding the fiscal cliff, not necessarily higher taxes.
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Lawmakers Demand Answers on Petraeus Affair
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General David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee September 11, 2007.
Intelligence committees want to know why the FBI didn't inform them of investigation.
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Deficit cutters look to Pentagon budget
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:24PM November 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — One war is done, another is winding down and the calls to cut the deficit are deafening. The military, a beneficiary of robust budgets for more than a decade, is coming to grips with a new reality — fewer dollars.
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Karl Rove Says He's Not Going Anywhere
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Former George W. Bush adviser and Crossroads founder Karl Rove (Charles Dharapak/AP)
Embattled Republican strategist Karl Rove says that both he and American Crossroads, the political action committee he co-founded, will remain major political players despite their poor performance in this year's elections.
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The Election's Other Big Winner: David Axelrod
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In this Oct. 21, 2008, file photo Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama holds a basketball as he talks to his chief strategist David Axelrod, backstage before an economic summit in Lake Worth, Fla.
David Axelrod is the hottest political consultant in the land right now, and he's using his new perch to set the stage for President Obama's second term.
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Iran VP: We Will Break Obama's 'Grasping Hands'
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Hamas Prime Minister of Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, left, and Iranian Vice- President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, join hands, as a gesture of solidarity, during an official welcoming ceremony for Haniyeh in Iran, Feb. 10, 2012.
Iran's vice president said Monday that Tehran will break the 'grasping hands' of newly re-elected President Barack Obama, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Dems, GOP fight brewing over curbing filibusters
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:00AM November 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A brewing and potentially bitter fight over Democratic efforts to curb filibusters is threatening to inflame partisan tensions in the Senate, even as President Barack Obama and Republicans explore whether they can compromise on top tier issues such as debt reduction and taxes.
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Face of US changing; elections to look different
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:56AM November 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just the economy, stupid. It's the demographics — the changing face of America.
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Analysis: Obama faces bumps with Russia policy
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:48AM November 12, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama once assured Russian leaders that he'd have more flexibility to deal with missile defense during a second term in office. But now that he has been re-elected, there's little expectation of progress on that or other contentious issues that divide the two countries.
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Congress wants answers on Petraeus affair
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:54PM November 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress said Sunday they want to know more details about the FBI investigation that revealed an extramarital affair between ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer, questioning when the retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren't told sooner.
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Healing the divisions in postelection America
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:06PM November 11, 2012 CommentAPPOMATTOX, Va. (AP) — Baine's Books sits in the heart of this historic village, a Main Street institution where townspeople gather for coffee and conversation and, every Thursday after sundown, an open mic night that draws performers from near and far with guitars and banjos in hand, bluegrass and blues on their lips.
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Senators propose comprehensive immigration changes
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:47PM November 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Two senators on opposite sides of the aisle are proposing comprehensive changes to the immigration laws that would include a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants now in the United States.
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Romney never overcame bailout opposition in Ohio
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:38PM November 11, 2012 CommentDETROIT (AP) — Only a couple of weeks after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the man who would become his Republican challenger in the next election penned a New York Times column with a fateful headline: "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."
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Major hurdles remain to end veteran homelessness
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:42PM November 11, 2012 CommentCHULA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Arthur Lute's arduous journey from his days as a U.S. Marine to his nights sleeping on the streets illustrates the challenge for the Obama administration to fulfill its promise to end homelessness among veterans by 2015.
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Feinstein: FBI should have told us about Petraeus
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:48AM November 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she wants to know why the FBI didn't tell her sooner that agents were investigating an extramarital affair by CIA Director David Petraeus.
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Dems, GOP fight brewing over curbing filibusters
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:22AM November 11, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A brewing and potentially bitter fight over Democratic efforts to curb filibusters is threatening to inflame partisan tensions in the Senate, even as President Barack Obama and Republicans explore whether they can compromise on top tier issues such as debt reduction and taxes.
