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Three Democrats Challenging President Obama for the Nomination

President Obama Is Not Quite Unopposed:

Mitt Romney Insults Working Class, Calls Their Concerns 'Envy'

COMMENTARY | Mitt Romney threw mud in the face of every hard-working lower- and middle-class American on the Today show on Wednesday, January 11, 2012....

18-hour outbreak of violence stuns New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Less than a week after New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu touted a string of peaceful and well-managed city events capped by the BCS championship game, he was back at the podium on Friday trying to reassure residents that an upsurge in violence was being dealt with....

Mitt Romney's new 2012 election pals: Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain

What a difference four years makes....

MLK memorial quote will be changed, report says

WASHINGTON (AP) — A quote inscribed in stone on the new Martin Luther King memorial will likely be changed after complaints it didn't accurately reflect the civil rights leader's words....

For many Americans, jobs crisis to last many years

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - - Despite an upswing in hiring during 2011, the jobs crisis could last many more years as millions of Americans struggle to find work....

Gingrich hits Romney for knowing how to speak French

During his college years in the 1960s, Mitt Romney spent two years as a Mormon missionary in France. Now, Newt Gingrich is trying to use that time abroad against him....

Obama seeks $1.2 trillion debt limit rise

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama formally notified Congress on Thursday that he plans a $1.2 trillion increase in the U.S. debt limit, prompting Republicans to level election-year charges that deficits are out of control....

George Clooney: I Root for the President

On Good Morning America this morning, George Clooney told host George Stephanopoulos that he's rooting for President Obama in 2012, saying, "I'm a Democrat -- I'm a believer. I think he's done a wonderful job; I think he's having a tough time in a difficult environment. I root for him. I root for the president of the United States."...

Obama unveils 'leaner' military to counter China

President Barack Obama unveiled a strategy for a leaner US military focused on countering China's rising power and signaling a shift away from large ground wars against insurgents....