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Romney rejects Obama-Wright attacks, despite doing so in past

Romney rejects Obama-Wright attacks, despite doing so in past

Romney in Jacksonville (Mary Altaffer/AP)Mitt Romney continued to distance his campaign from a conservative super PAC’s proposal to run ads linking President Barack Obama to his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Speaking to reporters in Jacksonville, Fla., where he campaigned on Thursday, Romney said he rejects any efforts to link Obama with...
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Facebook’s IPO movie better than ‘Social Network’

A short documentary now playing on the Internet is the best movie about Mark Zuckerberg yet. It’s studded with clues to the workings of Zuckerberg’s brain, and possibly even clues to the future of Facebook, which makes its initial public stock offering on Friday. The film is called “ Facebook IPO Roadshow,” and it...
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Disco queen Donna Summer dead at age 63

Disco queen Donna Summer dead at age 63

Donna Summer, whom millions of fans revered as “the Queen of Disco,” has died at the age of 63 in Florida after a battle with cancer, the Associated Press confirmed with the singer’s family Thursday morning.Summer performing in October 2011 The news comes as a surprise to those who were not aware that she...
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Romney rejects using Rev. Jeremiah Wright against Obama

Romney rejects using Rev. Jeremiah Wright against Obama

Romney (Mary Altaffer/AP)Mitt Romney says he rejects efforts to use President Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in ads attacking the president, insisting the campaign should remain focused on the economy. “I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they’ve described,” Romney said in an...
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As Facebook grows, millions say, ‘no, thanks’

NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won’t find her there. You won’t find Thomas Chin, either. Or Kariann Goldschmitt. Or Jake Edelstein. More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least once a month, but millions more are Facebook holdouts. They say they don’t...
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Look out Obama: Romney raises over $40 million in April

Look out Obama: Romney raises over $40 million in April

(Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)Mitt Romney raised just over $40 million for his campaign and the Republican National Committee in April—a pace that nearly matched the $44 million that President Obama raised during the same period. The New York Times was first to report the figure, which includes money raised for Romney’s 2012 campaign and the...
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Judge postpones evidence in Mladic trial

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The presiding judge in the U.N. trial of Gen. Ratko Mladic has delayed indefinitely the presentation of evidence that had been scheduled to start later this month due to “errors” by prosecutors in disclosing evidence to defense lawyers. Alphons Orie said Tuesday he was delaying the Yugoslav war crimes...
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