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Obama Romney focus on 2nd debate preparations
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney were immersed in intense debate preparations on Sunday for the upcoming second presidential debate as their campaigns entered into the home stretch. Obama hunkered down with his campaign advisers in Virginia while Romney went back from campaign events to his Boston home. Stakes have been raised ...
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Obama faces challenges in second debate with Romney
Losing ground to Republican Mitt Romney on a host of issues, President Barack Obama faces a serious challenge to put his re-election bid back on track when the two men face off on Tuesday in their second debate. Obama's passive performance in their first debate two weeks ago and Romney's subsequent surge have raised expectations for a more fiery encounter at New York's Hofstra ...
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Shot fired at Obama campaign office in Denver
Denver police say someone has fired a shot through the window of President Barack Obama's Denver campaign office. Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says people were inside the office when the shooting happened Friday afternoon, but no one was injured. A large panel of glass was left shattered at the office on West Ninth Avenue near Acoma Street. Lopez says investigators are looking at ...
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Canadian naval officer pleads guilty of espionage
A former Canadian Navy intelligence officer who pleaded guilty of espionage on Wednesday was selling secrets to the Russians for about $3,000 a month. Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle showed no emotion as he acknowledged to a Nova Scotia provincial court judge that he understood the consequences of entering guilty pleas to three charges and was voluntarily giving up his right to a trial. Federal ...
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Biden defends Obamas Iran policy in debate
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden defended the way that President Barack Obama was handling the Iranian nuclear stalemate on Thursday. In the vice-presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky, Biden argued that Mitt Romney was offering an Iran policy which was not so different from that of Obama. He also stressed that if deemed necessary, the U.S. military was ready to ...
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GOP demands probe of Obama campaign donations
The U.S. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday demanding an investigation into online campaign contributions to president Obama's reelection campaign. "[T]he President's campaign committee does not use the industry standard practices to guard against receiving fraudulent or excessive contributions via ...
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Biden fired up about debate Obama campaign
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is "fired up" about his upcoming debate with Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama said on Thursday. Campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Biden "is pretty fired up and ready to go this evening for the debate." She said that at the debate, Biden's "number-one goal ...
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School evacuated on bomb threat in U.S. state of New Mexico
A school in the U.S. state of New Mexico was put on a two-hour delay on Thursday morning after someone called in a bomb threat, local media reported. Students who were at the Albuquerque Academy, a day school for grades 6 through 12, for before-school activities were evacuated and all entrances to the school were closed, according to a report by local TV channel KOB. Police responded to a call ...
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Obama says he was too polite in debate
Appearing on a radio show on Wednesday morning US President Barack Obama said he thought he was "too polite" during last week's debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. I think it's fair to say I was just too polite," the president said when asked about his first debate performance during an interview on the Tom Joyner radio show. "The good news is, ...
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Top Obama terror aide presses Libya for action
The top White House anti-terror official John Brennan pressed Libyan President Mohammed Megaryef on Wednesday to hunt down those guilty of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi. The White House said Brennan addressed "specific additional steps Libya can take to better assist the US in ensuring that the perpetrators are brought to justice," during talks with top officials in ...
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U.S. First Lady campaigns for Obama
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama attends a running campaign for her husband, President Barack Obama in Loudoun County, Virginia, Oct. 9, 2012. U.S. Republican challenger Mitt Romney, largely viewed as the winner of the first U.S. presidential debate last week, is evenly split with Democratic incumbent Barack Obama in voters' support, according to the post-debate Gallup polls released on ...
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Drug cartel leader liquidated in Mexico
Unknown men in Mexico have stolen the body of the leader of a drug cartel "Zetas" Heriberto Lazcano from a funeral home. A few hours earlier he had been killed in a shootout with the military. The authorities believed Lazcano one of the most dangerous criminals in the country. The drug cartel "Los Zetas" is the most powerful criminal organization in Mexico. Many of the ...
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Obama Romney should listen to Kissinger on China U.S. journalist
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- When former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks about China, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama ought to listen, and "so should the rest of us," a veteran U.S. journalist said on Tuesday. Walter Pincus, who has been reporting intelligence, defense and foreign policy for the Washington Post for decades, made the ...
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Romney edges Obama among likely voters poll
Republican challenger Mitt Romney edged U.S. President Barack Obama among "likely voters" while Obama maintained a marginal lead among registered voters, less than a month ahead of November showdown, according to Gallup' s first national survey on likely voters released Tuesday. The Gallup's first "likely voters" survey, conducted from Oct. 2-8, found Romney held a ...
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Obama attacks Romneys tax plan in key swing state
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- President Barack Obama Tuesday assailed a tax plan proposed by Republican challenger Mitt Romney as "salesmanship" in the crucial swing state of Ohio. On a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio, Obama jabbed that Romney said it was fair that he paid a lower tax rate than a teacher or auto worker who makes 50,000 U.S. dollars. "That is not leadership -- ...
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Foreign policies of Obama Romney different in words not substance Lowy Institute
Similarities outweigh differences when comparing the foreign policies of U.S. President Barack Obama with Republican candidate Mitt Romney, according to the latest research paper from Australian thinktank the Lowy Institute. "Each candidate is doing his best to emphasise his difference from the other. But the similarities in their foreign policies are more striking than the differences. ...
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Couple killed inside their car in Mexico
Police and forensics members work at the site where a couple was killed inside their car, in Tlalmanalco, State of Mexico, Mexico, on Oct. 8, 2012. According to local authorities, the couple identified as Dolores Cazales and Emanuel Cabrera, who were passing in their car on Vargas street nearby municipal market, in the place were found about 40 bullet shells from R-15 assault rifles. ...
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Romney leads Obama by 4 points in post-debate poll
In the first national poll to be conducted entirely after the opening presidential debate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romneynow leads President Barack Obama by 4 points. The poll, conducted by Pew Research Center from Thursday through Sunday and released on Monday, shows Romney leading Obama among likely voters nationwide, 49 percent to 45 percent. That's a stark contrast from ...
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Romney tied with Obama in poll after 1st debate win
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Republican challenger Mitt Romney, largely viewed as the winner of the first U.S. presidential debate last week, is now evenly split with Democratic incumbent Barack Obama in voters' support, according to the post-debate Gallup polls released on Monday. The Gallup daily tracking poll was conducted from Oct. 4 to 6 and had a 3-point margin of error. It showed ...
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Romney attacks Obama on foreign policy
White House hopeful Mitt Romney on Monday delivered a scathing attack on America's failure to lead the world at a time of upheaval, in particular in the Middle East, under the stewardship of President Barack Obama. The Republican presidential nominee was seen trying to draw a sharp contrast with the incumbent just as there are only 29 days left before the November 6 election. In a speech ...
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Obama ‘needs to focus on jobs’
The former White House insiders, including long-time Obama adviser David Axelrod, say Obama needs to make his case anew for the government's role in expanding education and innovation and to give, as Obama put it in one of his early seminal speeches, ';every American a fighting chance in the 21st ...
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Popocatepetl volcano outside Mexico City still rumbling spitting ash
The Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City is still rumbling. Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center says seismic activity shook the area early on Sunday. And the 5,450-meter mountain also emitted gas, ash and glowing-hot rocks.The snow-capped volcano has been erupting periodically since 1994 and eruptions began strengthening about two weeks ago.Mexican authorities raised the alert ...
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Insight The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
Apart from the relative success of Tesla Motors Inc in putting nearly 10,000 of its pricey luxury electric cars on the road, the electric vehicle sector has been among the biggest duds in clean ...
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Obama optimistic despite partisan rancor
Obama Sunday told a Democratic National Committee event in Atlanta politics are to blame for the difficulty in getting anything done in Washington. "We've got good, common-sense solutions that we can implement right now. The bad news is, is that there's a shortage of common sense in Washington," Obama told supporters at ...
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On network news show Nation editor rushes to the defense of Obama
Appearing Sunday on the ABC News public affairs program "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of the ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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