INDIANOLA, Iowa — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a 2016 presidential prospect, began forging an early — and therefore tricky — path into presidential proving ground Iowa on Sunday. Appearing at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry, O’Malley dismissed the ...

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Gov. Martin O’Malley skipped the Maryland Association of Counties meeting last weekend, prompting critics to conclude once again that he’s disengaged from governing the state.

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RENO, Nev. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is accusing President Barack Obama of leaking classified details about the U.S. military raid that killed Osama bin Laden for political gain. Romney was to level his accusation Tuesday afternoon during an ...

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HOUSTON — Unflinching before the NAACP, Mitt Romney declared Wednesday he’d do more for African-Americans than Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president. He drew jeers when he lambasted the Democrat’s policies. “If you want a president who will make ...

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SAN ANTONIO — A third company awarded taxpayer dollars through Gov. Rick Perry’s business-hatching Emerging Technology Fund has gone bankrupt. NanoTailor’s filing brings the total amount of failed investments to $2.5 million. Company President Ramon Perales told The Associated Press ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Prosecutors have asked a federal judge in North Carolina to bar those in the upcoming trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards from mentioning his poor health because of concern it could create sympathy among jurors. Edwards’ ...

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With apologies to a former colleague, here’s a little Friday smorgasbord: How about that Herman Cain? He sure was having fun. He went from joke to front runner to what the right-wing bloviators called a Clarence Thomas-style, high-tech lynching. Nothing’s ...

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I recently put myself through the following mental exercise: Supposing I were running for president, what would the likes of Donald Trump make of my documentary history? That is, how would I fare if people took a skeptical attitude toward ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Attorneys for media outlets asked a North Carolina judge on Friday to pull back the cloak of privacy that has allowed records to be kept secret in a lawsuit filed by the mistress of former presidential candidate ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether he had other practices that pushed the bounds ...

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