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Immigration chief seeks to reassure Silicon Valley
(AP)
AP - The Obama administration's top immigration official said Wednesday he wants to keep more foreign-born high-tech entrepreneurs in the U.S. But to make that happen, he said he needs those entrepreneurs to turn their creativity to immigration itself.
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Santorum mocks Romney ahead of Arizona GOP debate
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AP - Rick Santorum acknowledged Wednesday that he's probably running behind Mitt Romney in Arizona, but he implored a tea party crowd not to settle for "a Johnny-come-lately to the conservative cause."
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Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive'
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AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.
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Palin book author pays fine for using confidential emails
(Reuters)
Reuters - A former aide to Sarah Palin who wrote an unflattering memoir of his time in her inner circle has paid a $11,900 fine for using confidential state emails without permission, according to the Alaska Department of Law.
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Romney and Santorum seek edge in 20th debate
(AP)
AP - Struggling for an edge, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum campaigned Wednesday into the 20th and possibly final debate of the roller-coaster race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Poll: Obama benefitting from improving economy
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AP - President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood. A new poll shows that Republicans and Democrats alike are increasingly saying the nation is heading in the right direction and most independents now approve the way he's addressing the nation's post-recession period.
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Common prenatal tests become campaign issue
(AP)
AP - First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the presidential race.
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Pro-Obama group runs anti-Romney ads in Michigan
(AP)
AP - An independent group supporting President Barack Obama's re-election bid is running ads in Michigan chiding Republican candidate Mitt Romney for opposing the $80 billion auto industry bailout.
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Maher: Don’t judge all pols by Newt, the ‘biggest fattest turd from the ’90s’
(Daily Caller)
Daily Caller - On Tuesday night’s “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” HBO “Real Time” host Bill Maher explained how the GOP field has whittled itself down from nine candidates to four, and offered some choice words for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
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'Game Change' -- Anatomy of a Smear of Sarah Palin
(ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Thanks to some remarkable reporting from Big Hollywood, it has become increasingly clear the upcoming HBO movie "Game Change" is less a political melodrama than an all-out attempt to destroy the person and reputation of Sarah Palin.
