Blame already being cast over budget fight

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'It shows what they know, and what they should know'

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Obama signs student loan deal, says job isn't done

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama signed into law Friday a measure restoring lower interest rates for student loans, pledging the hard-fought compromise would be just the first step in a broader, concerted fight to rein in the costs of a college education.

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Teaching teachers Report: Training for educators inadequate

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Lawmakers: Obama wooing might break budget logjam

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More students finishing what they started

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'Not me' top contender for GOP veep spot

WASHINGTON - Tag. I'm not it.

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Limbaugh apologizes to student for insult

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A sign of things to come?

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Romney's rivals look to South Carolina

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Mitt Romney's rivals are all but conceding defeat in next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, looking past a weekend debate doubleheader in the Granite State and focusing on South Carolina as their best chance to slow his march to the Republican presidential nomination.

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Gingrich says rivals' criticism taking a toll

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Candidates claim Tea Party banner

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Pledging fidelity to the Constitution and vowing to carry the tea party's priorities to the White House, the Republicans chasing the GOP's presidential nomination pitched themselves Monday to their party's libertarian activists as the strongest candidates to roll back four years of President Barack Obama's tenure.

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Bachmann wins GOP 2012 test vote

AMES, Iowa - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won a test vote of Iowans on Saturday, a show of popularity and organizational strength for the tea party favorite five months before the state's caucuses kick off the GOP presidential nominating season.

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Republican presidential contest suddenly heats up

WASHINGTON - The still unsettled race for the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012 is getting more interesting.

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Little-known Utah governor explores White House bid

HANCOCK, N.H. - Republican Jon Huntsman on Friday heard a major hurdle to his White House aspirations summed up in a single voter's question: "Aside from Utah, who are you?"

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Likely GOP contenders plot tea party strategy

BOSTON - It's a tricky time of courtship.

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GOP candidates rush to get into Senate races

WASHINGTON - Less than two months after voters gave Republicans six more Senate seats and control of the House, the GOP is lining up candidates for 2012, well ahead of the pace of previous election cycles.

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Republicans in charge take aim at health overhaul

WASHINGTON - Resurgent Republicans rallied Sunday behind an agenda based on unwavering opposition to the Obama White House and federal spending, laying the groundwork for gridlock until their 2012 goal: a new president, a "better Senate" and ridding the country of that demonized health care law.

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Frustration with GOP leader despite expected gains

WASHINGTON - In the most favorable political environment for Republicans in decades, GOP chairman Michael Steele ordinarily might be lavished with praise for leading his party to the brink of a historic triumph.

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'We are together'

WASHINGTON - Tapping into anger as the tea party movement has done, a coalition of progressive and civil rights groups marched by the thousands Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial and pledged to support Democrats struggling to keep power on Capitol Hill.

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Palin: We must restore America's honor

WASHINGTON - Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King's message. Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking King's legacy held their own …

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Was federal job offered to candidate?

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration dangled the possibility of a government job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a job offer in the Pennsylvania …

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White House backs new proposal on gays in military

WASHINGTON - A proposal to step up the repeal of the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military but still allow the Pentagon time - perhaps even years - to implement new policies won the White House's backing on Monday after administration officials met with gay rights …

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Obama: W.Va. miners died in pursuit of better life

BECKLEY, W.Va. - They lived and they died pursuing the American Dream, working in dangerous conditions underground to help keep the lights on across the country, a somber President Barack Obama said Sunday in a eulogy to the workers who died in the worst mine accident in a generation.

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Obama: Loan changes offer college affordability

WASHINGTON — Big changes in the student loan program will help make college more affordable for students and their debt load more manageable after graduation, President Barack Obama said.

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Obama appeals to Iranian people via Internet video

WASHINGTON - In a fresh appeal directly to the Iranian people, President Barack Obama says in an online video that the United States wants more educational and cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.

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