ARTICLES BY BETH FOUHY

Big Bird flies high in 2012 presidential campaign

NEW YORK - Big Bird is flying high in the 2012 presidential campaign.

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Shifting into overdrive

NEW YORK - It's on.

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Romney gains narrow win over Paul in Maine

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Trump endorses Romney in Vegas

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Sick and tired

NEW YORK - Their chief target is Wall Street, but many of the demonstrators in New York and across the U.S. are also thoroughly disgusted with Washington, blaming politicians of both parties for policies they say protect corporate America at the expense of the middle class.

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First female VP candidate Ferraro dies

BOSTON - Geraldine Ferraro was a relatively obscure congresswoman from the New York City borough of Queens in 1984 when she was tapped by Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale to join his ticket.

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States' offer of tax breaks no guarantee for jobs

NEW YORK - It's recently become an article of faith for many governors as they try to attract jobs: raising taxes during a recession is a nonstarter, choking off growth and damaging a state's fragile economic recovery.

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Unsettled nation marks 9/11 with rituals of sorrow

NEW YORK - Rites of remembrance and loss marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, familiar in their sorrow but observed for the first time Saturday in a nation torn over the prospect of a mosque near ground zero and the role of Islam in society.

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Islam controversies cast shadow over Sept. 11 events

NEW YORK - They will read the names, of course, the names of every victim who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The bells will ring. And then that moment of unity will give way to division as activists hoist signs and march, some for and some against a planned …

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States struggle to pass budgets without stimulus

NEW YORK - For at least 30 cash-strapped states counting on federal stimulus money, the news was a stunning blow: A deficit-weary Congress had rejected billions in additional aid, forcing lawmakers into a mad scramble to balance their budgets.

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