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Trump steals Romney's spotlight
29 May 2012 at 8:16pm
LAS VEGAS?Less than an hour after he officially clinched the 1,144 delegates needed to claim the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney celebrated his win by mingling with high-dollar GOP donors at a $2 million fundraiser here. But it was hardly a victory lap for Romney. On a day that normally would have meant lots of [...]
Tea partier Ted Cruz forces Texas Senate runoff
29 May 2012 at 7:49pm
Tea party candidate Ted Cruz achieved his goal Tuesday and forced establishment favorite Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst into a runoff in the Texas U.S. Senate race. Cruz, a Cuban-American lawyer who served as state solicitor general, along with seven additional Republicans competing in the Senate primary, held Dewhurst to 47 percent of the vote with 40 [...]
Poland outraged over Obama comment
29 May 2012 at 5:22pm
Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outraged Tuesday at President Obama?s reference earlier that day to ?a Polish death camp? ? as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland. ?The White House will apologize for this outrageous error,? Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted. Sikorski said...
Jeb Bush would consider V.P. offer 'very carefully'
29 May 2012 at 4:00pm
Jeb Bush would consider an offer to become Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate "very carefully," the former Florida governor told Italian news outlet Linkiesta in an interview on Tuesday. "If Romney were to offer me the job of vice president, I would consider the proposal very carefully," Bush told the online news outlet, according [...]
Slow, wet Beryl dumps rain on Southeast coast
29 May 2012 at 7:46pm
Residents along the Southeast coast were warned of possible flooding Tuesday from former Tropical Storm Beryl that left up to 10 inches of rain in northern Florida and was moving northeastward before heading back toward the coast and into the Atlantic.
Crews work to protect structures in Mich. wildfire
29 May 2012 at 6:30pm
Crews worked Tuesday to ensure that no more structures were damaged by a wildfire burning across more than 30 square miles of Michigan's Upper Peninsula as high winds in the forecast threatened to test firefighting efforts, an official said.
Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89
29 May 2012 at 6:42pm
Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, died Tuesday at a North Carolina hospital, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89.
Taliban blamed for 'poison attack' on Afghan schoolgirls
29 May 2012 at 12:01pm
Police in northern Afghanistan say 160 schoolgirls were admitted to a local hospital after they were thought to be poisoned by the Taliban. It's the third such poisoning of Afghan schoolgirls in less than two weeks. The girls "complained of headaches, dizziness and vomiting before being taken to the hospital," Hafizullah Safi, director of the [...]
Workers among 16 dead in latest big Italian quake
29 May 2012 at 4:27pm
Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck, collapsing the roof.
Graduate's essay lives on after her death
29 May 2012 at 2:51pm
A 22-year-old Yale graduate, Marina Keegan, who penned her life's lessons in a final column for the Yale Daily News, died just days after commencement. But the words of her work, "The Opposite of Loneliness," have lived on. The Massachusetts resident died in a car crash on her way to a vacation house on Cape [...]
Blitzer blasts Trump for 'ridiculous' birther comments
29 May 2012 at 2:52pm
Donald Trump, de facto leader of the so-called "birther" movement, called into "The Situation Room" on Tuesday for what quickly became a testy interview with Wolf Blitzer about Trump's continued skepticism over the authenticity of President Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate. Trump, in Las Vegas to host a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on Tuesday, took issue [...]
Will 2012 be the year of the Duck?
29 May 2012 at 9:01am
Yahoo's Jeff Greenfield says Romney?s Daffy Duck rigidness may trump Obama?s laid-back Bugs Bunny.
Report: Rob Portman to meet with Israeli Prime Minister
29 May 2012 at 2:32pm
ABC News scoops that Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, rumored to be on Mitt Romney's vice presidential shortlist, is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday: Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday in Israel. An Israeli official confirmed the meeting to ABC News Tuesday. This high-profile [...]
U.S., allies expel top Syrian diplomats
29 May 2012 at 9:09am
The United States, along with allies Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Canada, announced the expulsion of top Syrian diplomats on Tuesday to protest the May 25 massacre of some 100 people in the town of Houla.
Arkansas escaped inmates spur manhunt
29 May 2012 at 7:27am
Two alleged killers who broke out of an Arkansas jail early Monday morning are the subject of a manhunt today.
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