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• Republicans anxiously discourage racially-charged super PAC strategy

    Republicans moved quickly on Thursday in hopes of distancing themselves from a strategy being weighed by a GOP-oriented super PAC, which threatened to inject racial politics into the 2012 presidential campaign. Mitt Romney’s campaign, joined by a slew of other GOP he …

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• Black market boom: Spaniards go underground to fight deepening recession

  Source: msnbc.com
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• Europe, US and the world brace for messy impact from Greece

  As Greece teeters on the edge of financial collapse, European officials have a new task before them: preventing the financial turmoil from spreading across the continent, across the Atlantic and around the rest of the world. The fear is that Greece’s financial turmoil …

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• Boehner lays down markers on year-end 'fiscal cliff'

    House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) presaged another developing moment of brinksmanship on taxes and spending, vowing that House Republicans would vote to extend expiring tax cuts before the election, and insist on further cuts in spending to accompany another increase in t …

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• GOP kills civil unions in Colorado special session

  Source: msnbc.com
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